Climate Change

Maharashtra and Goa reported maximum temperatures soaring above 37°C, with climate change making the heatwaves up to 5 times more likely, according to weathermen This year, summer has come early for India, at least for the western coast. The states of Maharashtra and Goa, in particular, have been exposed to high temperatures and humidity. Both …

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Around the world, the impacts of global warming are already being felt, as the Earth sees warmer than average temperatures. Last year was the warmest on record—and the first to see the average global temperature exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.  As the warming trend continues, experts say the four seasons as we know them will change—and it …

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Climate change denial is apparently going to be ensconced in the White House for the next four years. Donald Trump, the denier-in-chief, is notoriously on record as having repeatedly called global warming a hoax. Likewise, the bulk of his cabinet picks and advisers reportedly reject or ignore the scientific consensus that the planet is warming at a dangerous and unprecedented rate …

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Around the world, huge swathes of fertile land are turning into arid wastelands at alarming rates, threatening ecosystems, agriculture, and humanity. This process is known as desertification, and it is closely linked to the effects of climate change.  Desertification is accelerating due to rising temperatures, erratic weather patterns, and human activities. The consequences of desertification are devastating, …

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Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Irvine researchers report evidence that marine nutrient cycles—essential for sustaining ocean ecosystems—are changing in unexpected ways as the planet continues to warm. “Model studies have suggested that when …

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