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A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
A coral reef in southern Pacific.

Hope, but no free pass, as Pacific corals show tolerance to warming oceans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Aug 2023

Beach heat: Study shows increasing temperature extremes on Brazil’s coast

Luís Patriani 17 Aug 2023
A male gharial guarding hatchlings.

Death of rare male gharial in Nepal highlights conservation crisis

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
Off Saint Raphaël at a depth of 70 meters a vast underwater forest of red gorgonians (Paramuricea clavata)

New hope in the Mediterranean: Scientists find deep corals withstand heat waves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Jun 2023

The climate is already changing in the Matopiba, Brazil’s new agricultural frontier

Evanildo da Silveira 26 Jun 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023
A polar bear surveys its icy Arctic surroundings.

Southern atmospheric rivers drive irreversible melting of Arctic sea ice: Study

Alec Luhn 23 Mar 2023
The National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition team climbs up a steep slope.

Sagarmatha microbes may survive harsh conditions for decades

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023
Tropical flora in Wayqecha cloud forests in Andes, Peru.

Carbon uptake in tropical forests withers in drier future: Study

John Cannon 23 Feb 2023
Rivers of metlwater on Greenland's ice sheet

‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2023
A Cape Mountain Zebra and Young.

Temperature extremes, plus ecological marginalization, raise species risk: Studies

Tim Vernimmen 31 Jan 2023
A leopard cub on a tree branch.

With climate change, Nepal’s leopards get a bigger range — and more problems

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jan 2023
Parmet with his youngest son, Zaidimu.

Extreme heat takes a toll on tropical countries’ economies

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 13 Jan 2023
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
Water line in Kathmandu

In temperate Nepal, climate change paves way for tropical dengue fever

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022
Arctic sea ice melts.

Arctic sea ice loss to increase strong El Niño events linked to extreme weather: Study

Alec Luhn 24 Oct 2022

2022: Another consequential year for the melting Arctic

Sharon Guynup 23 Sep 2022
A young girl carrying one of her goats as they travel home at the end of the day.

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Kang-Chun Cheng 19 May 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022
Damselfish on the coral reef in Komodo National Park in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Climate pledges could limit warming to 2C. What’s needed is action, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Apr 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

‘Everything is on fire’: Flames rip through Iberá National Park in Argentina

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Feb 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2022

In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2022

Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021

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