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Climate Central surveys and conducts scientific research on climate change and informs the public of key findings. Our scientists publish and our journalists report on climate science, energy, sea level rise . . . . Read More
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From the outside, the white clapboard structure at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, across the Hudson River and 10 miles north of Columbia’s main campus in Manhattan, looks like it could be a suburban dentist’s office. It’s a modest, two-story, barnlike structure with a white metal awning over the entrance. Only a small, home… Read More
Looking out over Saguaro National Park, which brackets Tucson, Ariz., like a pair of oversized parentheses, it’s hard to imagine how anything survives in this parched, sandy, sun-baked landscape. Millions of years of evolution have created an ecosystem here, though, with Gila monsters, kangaroo rats, snakes and other tough, scrappy creatures. The … Read More
Antarctica holds an absurdly large amount of ice — 3.5 million cubic miles’ worth — so it’s reassuring to know that it isn’t all going to melt anytime soon. If it did, sea level would go up about 180 ft., causing unimaginable devastation. But even with any reasonable projection for global warming, the air over Antarctica simply won’t get warm … Read More
Long accused of inaction, the country has put plans in place to reverse its record on carbon emissions, argues Rob Elsworth. Read More
The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy. Read More
According to a Climate Central analysis, nearly 140 locations in the U.S. had a warmer March than April to date.… Read More
Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that both droughts and torrential rains are both likely to get worse. That’s what climate models predict, and that’s what observers have noted, most recently in the IPCC’s report on extreme weather, released last month. It makes physical sense, too … Read More
America’s high-carbon electricity grid is short- circuiting efforts to give consumers climate-friendly, electric-vehicle options. Depending on where you live, generating the electricity to charge an electric car can produce more greenhouse gas pollution than driving a fuel-efficient gasoline powered car. The good news is that Americans have lots … Read More
Recent deforestation in Brazil has been rapid, causing greenhouse gas emissions.
