Climate Science

Forty percent of Americans don't believe that eating less red meat would lower carbon emissions, according to a poll for Newsweek.

The extent of the sea ice winter maximum in the Arctic is at its fifth-lowest level since the 1970s, and is massively below average.

Texas produces over double the wind-powered electricity than the second-highest state, Iowa.

The ice cover of the Great Lakes has been declining over the last few decades due to higher air temperatures in the region, experts say.

The megadrought has been around for over 20 years, and may stay for many more years due to the impacts of climate change.

New research has found 38 percent of the remaining Amazon has been degraded by human actions, including forest fires, logging, and extreme drought.

"We need more precipitation," a climate engineer said. "We need two to three more big storms."

Those who believe are living in the end times are less likely to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem than those who don't.

The contents of the ancient seawater trapped in rocks for 390 million years may also give scientists clues about the climate on ancient Earth.

"Everything about billionaires is damaging to the environment," Beatriz Barros, an environmental justice researcher at Indiana University, told Newsweek.

Mandy Gunasekara, chief of staff at the EPA under Trump, told Newsweek the team would "follow the same, proven course" if he were to win the 2024 election.

Scientists aren't sure what kind of cloud could appear as a wavy sea in the sky and some even doubt the picture's authenticity.

"Storms and atmospheric fronts create large swells that can travel tens of thousands of [miles] across the ocean," wave expert Shane Keating told Newsweek.

Lithium mining is incredibly destructive to the land and can result in soil erosion, sinkhole formation, and contamination of groundwater and surface water.

Homes in North Carolina and other East Coast states could be swamped with sewage, potentially bringing pathogens causing typhoid, cholera and dysentery.

The Mosquito fire, the latest blaze to have been blamed on PG&E, has been going since September 6.

Heavy rainfall from tropical storm Kay has resulted in flash flooding in Death Valley so bad that roads have been damaged.

The mysterious white mounds appearing on the shores of the Great Salt Lake have been found to be getting larger with each year.

The island's ancient ice sheets are melting faster than expected and at unusual times of year because of climate change, scientists have found.

The heatwave roasting California this week is due to a giant "heat dome" that has settled over the state.

Parts of California may face rolling power blackouts as a result of the ongoing heatwave scorching the state.

Climate change caused by human actions will increase the frequency of weird and chaotic weather events, scientists say.

The announcement marks the first official naming of any of the remains that have been revealed by Lake Mead's dropping water levels.

The news comes as Cornell scientists say that geoengineering may be necessary to combat the effects of climate change.

Experts have predicted that over 100 million people will live in an "extreme heat belt" by 2053.

The southwestern states have now been gripped by drought for over 22 years.

Mount St. Helens is one of many volcanos expected to become more dangerous as a result of climate change-induced heavier rainfalls in coming years.

The Cerro Prieto reservoir in drought-savaged northern Mexico has nearly entirely dried up to only half a percent of its full capacity.

Antarctic fish have been discovered by researchers to have ugly parasitic tumors all over their bodies, potentially as a result of warming ocean temperatures.

"Why did thousands of cattle all die in a heat wave?" Greene tweeted. "Usually just the old, sick, or weak die in stressful conditions, not the whole herd."