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Birds perch on barriers separating Mexico and the United States, where the border meets the Pacific Ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 17, 2018.Photo: Marco Ugarte (AP)El Niño is here and bringing record temperatures this June. As of this month, the global shift has officially arrived and is “expected to gradually strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2023-24,” according to a recent announcement from NOAA.Lower Drought Conditions In California | Extreme EarthThere have been several signs of El Niño’s development…

The Arctic Circle could lose its summer sea ice a whole decade earlier than previously projected by scientists. It’s yet another sign that the climate crisis is affecting our global systems faster than researchers had understood before.Extreme Weather Events in 2022 | Extreme EarthIn a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers outlined how the Arctic could experiencerapid sea ice loss as early as the 2030s. It’s a decade earlier than a 2021 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

It’s getting hot in here—so hot that vulnerable people around the world are soon going to be pushed out of regions where humans have flourished for years. In a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers find that about 2 billion people will be at risk of extreme heat by the beginning of the next century.The U.S. In For A Dry Winter | Extreme EarthThe study looked at areas of the world that are currently livable for people that may not be suitable for human life in a few decades. This area…

Famines, sea level rise, extreme weather, more pandemics—by this point, you’ve probably heard about the most disturbing consequences of climate change. What you might not have heard is that it could also hurt Major League Baseball. That’s right, America’s favorite pastime is imperiled by its other favorite hobby: burning fossil fuels.Extreme Weather Events in 2022 | Extreme EarthThanks, in part, to warming air temperatures, home runs in the MLB are becoming a more frequent occurrence. And the impact of global warming on…

In June and July 2021, an extreme heat wave swept across the historically temperate Pacific Northwest, killing hundreds of people and cooking over a billion sea creatures. Now, scientists have used information etched into tree rings to demonstrate that, yes, the heat wave was unlike anything the region had seen in a millennium.Could NASA's Electric Airplane Make Aviation More Sustainable?A study published in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science looked at tree rings in the Pacific Northwest going back over 1,000…

It’s no secret that humans have made big changes to Earth and its atmosphere. But as greenhouse gases have built up in the air and our planet’s average surface temperature has risen, a lesser-known phenomenon has been happening.Earth’s atmosphere has gotten dustier since the pre-industrial age. And all those additional particles have likely been subtly counteracting some of the effects of climate change—cooling the planet a little bit, according to a review study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Reviews Earth &…

California is in its third week of back-to-back-to-back extreme weather events. The Pacific coast has been drenched by consecutive atmospheric rivers spanning from the end of last year into the present, with precipitation totals 400%-600% above average in some regions. At least 17 people have died as a result of the storms, and nearly 100,000 people faced evacuation orders, as reported by The New York Times. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power, and tens of thousands in the state remain without electricity,…

In December 2021, a team of paleontologists published data suggesting that the asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs could be pinned down to a season—springtime, 66 million years ago—thanks to an analysis of fossilized fish remains at a famous site in North Dakota.Now, a different group of researchers is accusing the former group of faking their data; the journal that published the research has added an editor’s note to the paper saying the data is under review.The situation was first reported by the…

The Mauna Loa Observatory in 2019.Photo: Susan Cobb/NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (AP)The eruption Mauna Loa in Hawaiihas temporarily disrupted one of the most important tools we have to keep track of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego said Tuesday that the volcano’s lava flows had impacted the access road to the Mauna Loa Observatory, and the facility had lost power on Monday evening. As a result, the equipment used to maintain the Observatory’s carbon dioxide…

November is supposed to bring colder weather to the Northern hemisphere, but this year the month began with unusually high temperatures.Read more... November is supposed to bring colder weather to the Northern hemisphere, but this year the month began with unusually high temperatures.Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…