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Atmospheric science
March 03, 2020
China's skies are briefly clearer while factories stay shut
China’s far-reaching efforts to control the spread of the new coronavirus have shuttered factories, emptied airports and ...
March 02, 2020
From Russia, with fruit: Arctic mission gets record resupply
A Russian icebreaker has made a successful supply run to exchange crew and deliver goods to an international expedition ...
March 02, 2020
Half of world's sandy beaches at risk from climate change
Scientists say that half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues ...
February 14, 2020
RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79
Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel ...
February 05, 2020
Photos of 'king tides' globally show risks of climate change
Tourists, nature lovers and amateur scientists are whipping out their cameras to document the effects of extreme high tides ...
February 05, 2020
Scientists dive into 'Midnight Zone' to study dark ocean
A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean — into a “Midnight Zone” where light ...
February 01, 2020
Emails show the fallout from Trump's claims about Dorian
A flurry of newly released emails from scientists and top officials at the federal agency responsible for weather forecasting ...
January 23, 2020
California's monarch butterflies critically low for 2nd year
The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remains critically low for the second year in a ...
January 21, 2020
Backatcha: Thunberg returns Trump's climate jibe
Greta Thunberg isn't easily intimidated. The 17-year-old Swedish activist wasted little time on Tuesday to push back against ...
January 15, 2020
Fever chart: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s
The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, ...
January 04, 2020
Q&A: How climate change, other factors stoke Australia fires
Australia’s unprecedented wildfires are supercharged thanks to climate change, the type of trees catching fire and weather, ...
December 28, 2019
Science teachers, students get Times Square New Year's stage
This year's New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will spotlight efforts to combat climate change when high school ...
December 16, 2019
Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count stronger than ever
Ít's been 120 years since New York ornithologist Frank Chapman launched his Christmas Bird Count as a bold new alternative ...
December 16, 2019
Review: A fictional look at the role of 'oppo' research
“Oppo” (Ecco/Harper Collins), by Tom Rosenstiel Investigator Peter Rena and his partner Randi Brooks are taking on the timely ...
December 15, 2019
AP EXPLAINS: How Madrid talks fell short on climate ambition
This year's U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended Sunday with major ...
December 15, 2019
Preservation or development? Brazil’s Amazon at a crossroads
Night falls in Brazil’s Amazon and two logging trucks without license plates emerge from the jungle. They rumble over dirt ...
December 13, 2019
As California thins forests to limit fire risk, some resist
Buzzing chainsaws are interrupted by the frequent crash of breaking branches as crews fell towering trees and clear tangled ...
December 08, 2019
Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints
For years, Kim Cobb was the Indiana Jones of climate science. The Georgia Tech professor flew to the caves of Borneo to study ...
December 04, 2019
Climate simulations are mostly accurate, study finds
The computer models used to simulate what heat-trapping gases will do to global temperatures have been pretty spot-on in ...
December 04, 2019
Global carbon pollution continues to rise, but more slowly
The world continues to increase the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide it pumps into the air, but it’s not rising as fast ...
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