How a volcanic eruption helped create modern Scotland
Eruption-induced cooling likely exacerbated the “Scottish ills” of the late 1690s
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Space budget boost puts Europe in lead to monitor carbon from space
Funding increase for ESA’s Copernicus program advances satellites to monitor Paris accord cuts -
Nitrogen crisis from jam-packed livestock operations has ‘paralyzed’ Dutch economy
Ecological damage from manure fumes triggers calls for drastic change to agriculture -
Greenhouse gas emissions to set new record this year, but rate of growth shrinks
Declining use of coal for power drove slower growth -
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
Study debunks idea that older models were inaccurate -
In unpublished paper, former White House climate adviser calls methane ‘irrelevant’ to climate
Research aims to support rollback of methane rules -
New U.N. climate report offers ‘bleak’ emissions forecast
China’s per capita emissions rise, but United States is still world’s per capita leader -
Massive Australian blazes will ‘reframe our understanding of bushfire’
Fire scientist David Bowman discusses the unfolding crisis -
Watch the Arctic’s sea ice slowly disappear
Researchers visualize 35 years of sea ice shrinkage -
U.S. moves closer to withdrawing from Paris climate pact
Letter to United Nations will start clock on 1-year countdown to departure -
Unrest in Chile prompts cancellation of U.N. climate conference
Organizers not clear on next steps -
World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles
2.7-million-year-old core chronicles switch from 40,000- to 100,000-year ice age cycles -
Hold my beer. Munich’s Oktoberfest beats Boston for methane emissions
World’s largest folk festival emits so much gas per square meter, thanks to stoves and space heaters -
Deadly typhoon forces Japan to face its vulnerability to increasingly powerful storms
Extreme rains from tropical cyclone Hagibis caused widespread flooding that killed at least 80 -
Global impacts of thawing Arctic permafrost may be imminent
Seasonal carbon emissions seen outpacing absorption -
Unprecedented drought in an artificial ecosystem may reveal how rainforests will cope with climate change
Researchers at Biosphere 2 are tracing carbon through trees and soils to monitor effects of water stress
