El Niño is one of the most familiar climate patterns on Earth. Pools of water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become abnormal warm, triggering changes in global weather patterns.
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For 150 years tourists have been travelling to the town of Belvédère, high in the Swiss Alps, for the chance to walk inside a glacier. Around 1870, a local Swiss family had the idea of digging a shal… [+2397 chars]
Enlarge/ These pale corals were bleached by high temperatures.
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The outlook for coral reefs in our warming world is truly dismal. The latest IPCC report stated that mo… [+4327 chars]
Plastic garbage floating on the ocean may draw the most outrage, but it accounts for just 1 percent of the 10 million tons of plastic that get into the worlds oceans every year. The rest of it ends u… [+3183 chars]
The Minneapolis-based outdoor furniture brand Yardbird, which makes its wares in part from recycled plastic harvested from beaches and ocean-bound waterways, has raised $4.4 million in financing.
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Yorkshire-based British textiles manufacturer, Camira, has teamed up with the SEAQUAL Initiative which turns waste plastic captured from the sea by fishermen into yarn to make the industry’s first up… [+7656 chars]
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is home to a coral reef, a four-story bubble that encapsulates a replica of a rain forest, and perhaps most famously, Claude the albino alligator. … [+1400 chars]
On Wednesday afternoon, Cyclone Amphan made landfall on the Indias border near Sagar Island in West Bengal, bringing sheets of rain and wind speeds up to 100 mph. The storm knocked over trees, uproot… [+2695 chars]
EDENVILLE, Mich. — People living along two mid-Michigan lakes and parts of a river were evacuated Tuesday following several days of heavy rain that produced flooding and put pressure on dams in the a… [+6088 chars]
As the planet warms, parts of the planet are going greenand not in the environmentally friendly way. Snow in coastal Antarctica is literally turning the color green.
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The discovery heralded a new understanding of permafrost. It was proof that life could exist in extreme places. But more ominously, it suggested that the thawing happening all over the planet could a… [+3635 chars]
As governments have failed to take necessary action to contain the climate crisis and more evidence has become available showing that oil companies have spent decades lying to the public and sharehol… [+5341 chars]