Satellite data shows a browning trend across the planet since around the turn of the century. Credit: ezypix/Getty Around 56 million years ago, a sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere led to severe global warming that transformed the planet’s surface. A detailed reconstruction of an ancient ecosystem suggests that this transformation included a
Researchers are racing to determine the impact of rising sea surface temperatures on fragile marine ecosystems.Credit: Armando Babani/Getty The world’s oceans are on the brink of setting an all-time heat record, reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air. “It just spells trouble
El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that the disruptive climate phenomenon will turn into a “very strong” event by the end of the year. Some forecasters say this El
In the hills of Emilia-Romagna, a bank vault holds more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, worth well over 300 million euros. The vault belongs to the bank Credito Emiliano, known colloquially as Credem, which has long accepted young wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano as collateral for loans to local dairy farms since 1953.
The families of farmers are left bereft after relatives poison themselves with hazardous pesticides.Credit: Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via Getty Mental health is central to global health and sustainable development. It is shaped both by individual experiences and by access to services, and by broader societal and environmental factors. Laws, policies, governance systems and institutions influence
A paramedic moves a person to an ambulance in Spain during a 2022 heatwave that killed more than 300 people in five days. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty Extreme heat is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year — and the annual toll is growing. An estimated 210,000 more people died of heat-related causes each year
