Photo taken on Nov. 29, 2018 shows penguins on drift ice as seen by the Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong, also known as Snow Dragon, in an area of drift ice in the Southern Ocean. The icebreaker is part of China’s 35th Antarctic Research Expedition. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Antarctic … Read more
Schools in New Delhi were forced to close on Monday after heavy monsoon rains hit the Indian capital, with landslides and flash floods killing at least 15 people in the past three days. Further north, the overflowing Beas River swept vehicles downstream, flooding neighborhoods. In Japan, torrential rain it hit the South West, causing flooding … Read more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday warned that severe weather, including heavy rains and flooding that is inundating the Northeast, should be considered the “new normal.” “Make no mistake this is our new normal,” Hochul tweeted. “We are the first generation to feel the impacts of climate change and the last generation with the … Read more
First image of black hole Pwehi released on April 10, 2019. (File photo courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope Project and Maunakea Observatories) In the spring of 2019, astronomer Doug Simons found it difficult to sleep at night after seeing the world’s first image of a black hole, taken by the international collaboration of the … Read more
KCCI-TV Chief Meteorologist Chris Gloninger stands outside his home, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Gloninger has announced that he will be leaving the Des Moines station due in part to threats he has received for his on-air coverage of climate change. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Charlie Neibergall DES MOINES, Iowa The harassment … Read more
Like a warming Earth boiled into troubling new territory This week, scientists said unofficial records set for the average planetary temperature are a clear sign of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment. But the heat is also just one way the planet is telling us something is gravely wrong, they said. Heat … Read more
Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday after two days of the planet hitting unofficial records. It is the latest indicator in a series of extremes driven by climate change. The global average temperature was 17.18 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the University of Maines Climate reanalyzer, an instrument that … Read more
02:52 What if you could tell where the next big flood will hit or which region might be devastated by a drought? Could an artificial intelligence (AI) model be used to predict which forest area was most at risk from potentially catastrophic fires? Advances in supercomputing and artificial intelligence mean this will soon become a … Read more
