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8 articles covering "climate change"
The IUCN Red List has reclassified the emperor penguin from Near Threatened to Endangered and the Antarctic fur seal from Least Concern to Endangered, citing sea-ice loss and krill decline driven by climate change.
High-resolution simulations show the Gulf Stream jumps 219 km north roughly 25 years before AMOC collapse, and satellite data confirms the current has already begun drifting northward from Cape Hatteras.
Arctic sea ice reached its lowest annual maximum extent on record in March 2026, with satellite data showing a continued erosion of the winter ice cap that scientists attribute to accelerating polar warming.
An Oxford-led study warns nearly 8,000 vertebrate species face unsuitable conditions by 2100 from combined heat and land-use stress, while a separate Nature Climate Change paper finds that protecting biodiversity hotspots would halve the land available for forestation-based carbon removal.
A 30-year satellite study shows Antarctica lost 12,820 square kilometers of grounded ice, concentrated in West Antarctica's most vulnerable glaciers.
Three major studies reveal invasive species cut insect numbers by 31 percent globally, climate change alone drove a 72 percent decline in a pristine Colorado meadow, and monitoring frameworks cannot yet track whether rescue plans work.
An extraordinary heat dome is delivering summer-like temperatures across the American Southwest in mid-March, breaking century-old records and threatening already depleted snowpack.
Austrian Alpine Club reports 94 of 96 monitored glaciers retreated during 2024-2025, with average losses exceeding 20 metres and the largest glacier showing progressive disintegration.