A new study shows that temperatures in West Antarctica—which has enough ice to raise sea levels by 10 ft.—are rising nearly twice as fast as scientists had believed.
Climate Science
Why Seeing Is Believing—Usually—When It Comes to Climate Change
When people have personal experience with climate change, they tend to become believers—unless they were already skeptics. Will extreme weather events like Sandy be enough to change the equation on climate change belief?
Climate Change: Polar Ice Sheets Melting Faster, Raising Sea Levels
The rate of polar ice-sheet melting is key to calculating how fast sea levels are rising. Now, scientists have a new analysis of polar ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica—and the numbers aren’t good for the planet.
Did Climate Change Kill the Mayans?
A familiar modern problem may have wiped out a grand ancient culture
ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers
I’ve been fortunate enough to travel around the world as TIME’s environment correspondent: to rainforests, Himalayan mountains, coral reefs. But far and away the most singular spot I ever visited was the far north of Greenland. I …
The World’s Most Powerful Climate Change Supercomputer Powers Up
1.32 million sq. miles
How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds
When you mess with the Amazon rainforest you mess with a lot of things — 2.5 million species of insects, 40,000 species of plants, 1,300 species of birds, and those are only the known ones. The 1.4 billion of acres of thriving, …
Biodiversity Has Increased During Earth’s Warm Periods. But Climate Change Isn’t Off the Hook
A new study indicates that the number of species grew when global temperatures increased during periods in the geologic past. But that may not matter when it comes to rapid, man-made climate change.
Antarctica: A Greenhouse Gas Hotspot?
New study suggests that huge amounts of the greenhouse gas methane could be hiding underneath the ice of Antarctica.