Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in and extra snowfall won’t save it, even if 1.5° warming target is met, according to new study using physics-informed machine learning model that looked at hundreds of thousands of potential futures and the impact of each on the ice sheet
Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme in the last 40 years than in any time in the past millennium, according to analysis of growth pattern, suggesting influence of climate change
Forests in Wyoming lost 60% of their canopy during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the last comparable period of global warming, and it took them well over 100,000 years to recover, according to fossilized leaf fragments
More than half of Earth’s migratory bird species are declining, according to comprehensive assessment of 3380 species; data-informed approaches to protecting them across their full annual migratory cycles show promise