Climate

  1. Environment

    U.S. oil and gas boom behind rising ethane levels

    Oil and gas operations on North Dakota’s Bakken shale are largely to blame for a recent rise in global emissions of the greenhouse gas ethane, researchers conclude.

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  2. Earth

    Rainwater can help trigger earthquakes

    Rainwater plays a major role in the triggering of earthquakes along New Zealand’s Alpine Fault.

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  3. Climate

    Fizzled 2014 El Niño fired up ongoing monster El Niño

    The ongoing El Niño, one of the strongest on record, got a heat boost from a 2014 event that failed due to unfavorable winds.

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  4. Climate

    Wildfire shifts could dump more ice-melting soot in Arctic

    Wildfires will emit more soot into the air in many regions by the end of the century, new simulations show.

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  5. Environment

    EPA boosts estimate of U.S. methane emissions

    A new report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revises the agency’s methane emission estimates upward by 3.4 million metric tons.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Heat may outpace corals’ ability to cope

    Corals may soon lose their ability to withstand warming waters.

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  7. Environment

    EPA underestimates methane emissions

    Methane estimates by the Environmental Protection Agency fail to capture the full scope of U.S. emissions of the greenhouse gas, studies show.

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  8. Climate

    Pollen becoming bee junk food as CO2 rises

    Rising CO2 lowers protein content in pollen, threatening nutrition for bees.

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  9. Climate

    Science’s inconvenient (but interesting) uncertainties

    In the latest issue of Science News, Editor in Chief Eva Emerson talks climate change, mouth microbes, and synthetic life.

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  10. Climate

    Changing climate: 10 years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

    In the 10 years since "An Inconvenient Truth," climate researchers have made progress in predicting how rising temperatures will affect sea level, weather patterns and polar ice.

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  11. Climate

    Sea levels could rise twice as fast as previously predicted

    Sea level rise from Antarctica’s melting ice could accelerate faster and sooner than previously thought.

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  12. Environment

    Dome effect leaves Chinese megacities under thick haze

    Airborne black carbon lowers an atmospheric boundary, trapping pollution around major cities and worsening air quality, researchers propose.

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