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Climactic Change

Climate change is no longer an open question—for researchers today, it's a baseline assumption. How these changes will impact ecosystems, public health, and our future are now the questions we need to ask.

White pine blister rust's habitat range is changing with the climate

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New study in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks demonstrates the complexity of changing plant-pathogen interactions

Ornob Alam, New York University

Small black dimples of soot and microbes speed the melting of Kashmir's iconic glaciers

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Krishna Sharma, Ecology

From salmon to snow melt, the predictions for Oregon's climate-changed future are dire

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Kristen Vogt Veggeberg, University of Illinois at Chicago

Floods in Germany are the latest wake-up call in the climate crisis

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Extinction risks in a rapidly warming planet depend on previous slow temperature swings

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Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

Heat waves worsen coral reef metabolism — even when they don't bleach

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Keira Monuki, University of California, Davis

2021's wildfire season could be even more devastating to the western US than last year's record-breaker

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Kristen Vogt Veggeberg, University of Illinois at Chicago

Why schools should be the center of a Green New Deal

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Dharna Noor, Earther

This Earth Day, turn your funeral into an ecoburial

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Sarah Brumble, Journalism

Researchers discover a new high-altitude Himalayan lake — and its waters are red

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The reddish hue of the lake is likely due to iron-rich minerals in the area

Sree Rama Chaitanya, Molecular Biology

Ocean heatwaves like "The Blob" cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems

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Keira Monuki, University of California, Davis

Comment 4 peer comments

In Miami, environmental injustice and the ocean tides rise alongside luxury housing

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Mario Alejandro Ariza, Yale Environment 360

Climate change is a cultural issue as much as an environmental one

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Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

Are invasive insects better equipped for climate change than native species?

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Hanusia Higgins, University of Vermont

Painting the blades of wind turbines helps birds avoid them

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Rita Ponce, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

Why is the carbon tax, after years of debate, no longer popular in Washington?

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Shannon Osaka

Climate change is toppling tree frogs from rainforest canopies

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Joan Meiners, Ecology

Fungi learn how to cope with drought, but at a cost

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Matthew Vandermeulen, University at Buffalo

Comment 4 peer comments

Climate change will make allergy sufferers suffer a little bit longer each year

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Data from 17 Northern Hemisphere locations indicates that plants are releasing more pollen and for a longer period of time as the globe warms

Lila Westreich, University of Washington

Comment 2 peer comments

Faraway cities are sending their heat to the Arctic's ecosystem

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Cheryl Katz

Melting sea ice gives phytoplankton the space to pump out cloud-forming gasses

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Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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Climate change is destroying ancient murals in Texas

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Alan Thompson

By 2100, the ocean will be a different color

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Maddie Bender, Yale University

Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Comment 1 peer comment

Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Comment 4 peer comments

Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

Comment 1 peer comment

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions will be good for the planet and our stomachs

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Comment 3 peer comments

While Congress does nothing, New York City passed its own climate legislation

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With the Green New Deal stalled, cities are stepping up with their own

Greta Moran

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Warming oceans cast a chill over New England's sea turtles

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

Comment 1 peer comment

How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Comment 1 peer comment

The UN reports humanity is failing its climate change goals

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Michael Graw, Oregon State University

Climate change once heated the oceans and caused "The Great Dying"

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Elena Suglia, UC Davis

Comment 2 peer comments

These corals love the warming oceans

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Gina Mantica, Tufts University

Comment 1 peer comment

Climate change is rotting away Greenland's cultural heritage

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Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

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