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Anxious About Climate Change? Make a 'Positivity Sandwich'

The AP talks to experts on how to manage the emotional toll of a warming planet

(Newser) - Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people. Many worry about what the future holds, and a daily grind of climate anxiety and distress can lead to sleeplessness, an inability to focus, and worse. Some young people wonder whether it's...

We Have 3 Years Left Before 1.5C Climate Goal Runs Out

Current pace of emissions puts Paris climate target in jeopardy

(Newser) - Earth's climate clock is ticking , with scientists warning we have only three years left to keep global warming below the crucial 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold if emissions stay steady. A new assessment from more than 60 leading climate scientists warns that the world could use up its...

To Survive Heat Waves, the Clown Fish Shrinks
When It Gets Too Hot,
the World's Nemos Shrink
NEW STUDY
Jun 4, 2025 10:45 AM CDT

When It Gets Too Hot, the World's Nemos Shrink

Becoming smaller when it's hot helps boost survival rates for clown fish

(Newser) - Clown fish are now joining the list of animals altering their bodies and behavior in response to climate change. According to a new study published in Science Advances , scientists in Papua New Guinea observed that clown fish, made most famous by the 2003 animated film Finding Nemo, temporarily shrank...

2 of World's Top Weather Agencies Have Dire Warning

And there's the slightest chance we could hit 2 degrees Celsius of warming

(Newser) - Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery, and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast. There's an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, according to a...

Disturbing Trend Seen in Record Rainforest Loss

Fires, not agriculture, are now the primary cause of tropical forest destruction

(Newser) - Tropical forests vanished at a record pace in 2024, losing 26,000 square miles—an area about the size of Ireland—according to new satellite data. Fires, rather than land clearance for agriculture, drove most of the loss for the first time, with the Amazon region facing unusually severe...

In India, Women's 'Dream Maps' Push Back on Climate Change

Women in India's eastern state of Odisha map out dwindling resources, hoping for government aid

(Newser) - The Indigenous Adivasis have lived in the villages of India's eastern state of Odisha for millennia, continuing traditional practices of farming millet and rice and foraging leaves and fruit from the forest to make plates, the local brew, and more. With those practices under pressure from a changing climate,...

NOAA Unplugs Its Climate Change Tracker

Agency says decades-old database to be archived, is no longer 'in alignment with evolving priorities'

(Newser) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is retiring its public database that tracks the cost of losses from climate change-fueled weather disasters—including floods, heat waves, and wildfires—in the latest example of the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change. NOAA falls under the US Department of...

Hawaii Set to Introduce a Novel Hotel Tax

The money would be earmarked for efforts to combat global warming

(Newser) - In a first-of-its kind move, Hawaii lawmakers are ready to hike a tax imposed on travelers staying in hotels, vacation rentals, and other short-term accommodations and earmark the new money for programs to cope with a warming planet. State leaders say they'll use the funds for projects like replenishing...

Biggest Firms on Earth Leave $28T Climate Tab in Their Wake

Dartmouth scientists point to 10 fossil fuel firms as being on the hook for more than half that damage

(Newser) - The world's biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage over the years, estimates a new study, part of an effort to make it easier for people and governments to hold companies financially accountable, as the tobacco giants have been. A Dartmouth College research team came up with...

Britain Was Once Home to Giant Icebergs
Massive Icebergs Once
Floated Around the UK
NEW STUDY
Apr 24, 2025 1:17 PM CDT

Massive Icebergs Once Floated Around the UK

Evidence could prove useful in understanding how ice sheets respond to climate change

(Newser) - Deep tracks in the floor of the North Sea are hugely exciting to scientists in the UK, who say the grooves not only confirm that an ice sheet once covered Britain and Ireland, but also that it calved icebergs as large as cities. As the giant tabular icebergs with wide,...

Belize's Blue Hole Hides a Concerning Storm Archive

Sediment core indicates tropical storms have increased in frequency, will continue to do so

(Newser) - For researchers, peering into Belize's Great Blue Hole is like peering into history—and, in a sense, into the future as well. Unfortunately, their findings indicate storm clouds are on the horizon. From the bottom of the 410-foot-deep underwater sinkhole, scientists from universities across Germany extracted a nearly 100-foot-long...

Arctic Sea Ice Hits an Alarming Record Low

For its usual peak growth period, this is the least build-up since records began

(Newser) - Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago, a symptom of climate change that will have repercussions globally, scientists said Thursday. The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice...

Climate Lawsuit Filed by Kids Ends, Plaintiffs Now Adults

Supreme Court declined to hear the lawsuit first brought a decade ago

(Newser) - The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights, ending a decadelong legal battle that saw many of the plaintiffs grow from children and teenagers into adults, the...

Another Effect of Climate Change: More Space Debris

Researchers say global warming will soon make a mess of Earth's orbit, too

(Newser) - Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet, too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculate that, as global warming caused by the burning of coal, oil, and gas continues, it may reduce the...

FBI: Habitat for Humanity Among Groups Under Investigation

As well as other organizations that received Biden-era grants

(Newser) - Sources say the FBI, under the direction of the Trump administration, is moving to criminalize organizations that received Biden-era climate grants. In court filings Wednesday, Citibank said that the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Treasury Department requested that the accounts of some nonprofits and state government agencies be...

This Tiny Island Has a 'Golden Passport' Waiting for You

Pacific isle of Nauru offers citizenship, if you can pay the $105K minimum they'll use to fight climate crisis

(Newser) - Nearly 12,500 people live on the Micronesian island of Nauru, the world's third smallest nation, but thanks to global warming, those folks need to move to higher ground—and they're hoping a new "golden passport" program convincing foreigners to obtain citizenship there will help. Interested parties...

Scientists Find Greenland Ice Sheet's Point of No Return

Climate modeling study suggests collapse could become inevitable sooner than you might think

(Newser) - Greenland's ice sheet, one of only two permanent ice sheets on Earth, loses a reported 33 million tons of ice every hour , or almost 290 billion tons per year. Hovering at around 650,000 square miles, it has not yet reached an irreversible tipping point, where its collapse—and...

Hottest January on the Books Stumps Scientists

All despite cooling effect of La Nina; debate ensues on whether global warming is accelerating

(Newser) - The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly US, a cooling La Nina, and predictions of a slightly less-hot 2025, per European climate service Copernicus. The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top NASA...

How 'Bout Them Apples (to Beat Climate Change)

Michigan researchers are trying to make apples more resistant to global warming via late bloomers

(Newser) - In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer. A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples...

Trump Withdrawing US From Paris Climate Agreement, Again

New president signed executive order directing just that

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the US from its closest allies, the AP reports. Trump's action, hours after he was...

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