Ski Resorts Are Giving Up on Snow
It’s late August, and Italy is in the middle of its third record-setting heat wave of the summer, but at the bottom of the slopes...
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The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Lee Is a Warning
That’s why rapid intensification remains such a difficult thing to forecast. But scientists are using both decades-old data and new measurements to fix that. Last...
This Brutal Summer in 10 Alarming Maps and Graphs
In the map above, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows July’s unrelenting worldwide heat. The darkest red—around Mexico and Central America, northern Canada and...
The Weird Way That Human Waste Is Killing Corals
“Even with a severe heat wave in 2015, 20 percent of those reefs that were in cleaner water with the herbivore fish not only went...
Coming Soon Near You: Bears
Steps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Park’s iconic valley, sits a brown metal dumpster. Visitors reach...
The Heat Wave Scorching the US Is a Self-Perpetuating Monster
Just weeks later a third of the US population was hit with air-quality alerts thanks to smoke from climate-change-fueled fires in Canada, 100 million Americans...
The Arctic Is a Freezer That’s Losing Power
The island of Svalbard, about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Arctic, which...
The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
Seagrass is the “ugly duckling of conservation,” Carlos Duarte says. He calculated that the plant may put away carbon at 10 times the rate of...
The Looming El Niño Could Cost the World Trillions of Dollars
While the effects of El Niño are more concentrated in the tropics, other regions will feel the heat as well. The southwestern United States tends...
Where to Find the Energy to Save the World
because of the promising conditions in Starr and Hidalgo Counties, Jamie had been helping a handful of people there. The Sage team, of course. The...