Upper oceans hottest in 2020 despite lower emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns

Heat content was 20 zetta joules higher than in 2019

How climate change is messing up the ocean’s biological clock, with unknown long-term consequences

Phytoplankton blooms are, in some aspects, metronomes of the annual oceanic cycles around which many species’ biological clocks are synced …

Arctic ice is disappearing: How clouds interact with sea ice change

More heat and moisture is released through a large hole in sea ice called polynya, which fuels formation of more clouds, trapping heat in the …

What can a bucket of water tell us about Arctic marine life? A lot, says a new study

Scientists have proposed a new technique to monitor the impact of climate change and human activity on marine life

Shell shuts drilling operations off the Alaskan coast

The company claims to have made only a marginal discovery of oil and gas in the region  

Why is Greenland ice sheet melting faster this September? Experts weigh in

Typically the ice sheet loses ice in the summer and gains mass in the months after

New NASA campaign to focus on climate impacts in Arctic

The programme will give scientists a better understanding of how the Arctic is responding to rising temperatures

World just had the hottest week; shattered records hint we are in uncharted territory: WMO

We can expect more records to fall as El Nino develops further and these impacts will extend into 2024, says WMO

2016 was year of extreme warming; 2017 shows no signs of easing

Last year was the warmest on record for North America, second warmest for Africa and South America and third warmest for Europe

Global warming had never slowed down, says US study

Temperature data collected by a variety of techniques from both land and sea have always been a source of concern, according to a section of …

Arctic Ocean entering ‘new era’, say Norwegian scientists

The Norwegian Young Sea Cruise aims to study the thin, young sea ice during the peak melting season

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Polar vortex: did warming bring the chill to US?

Extreme events like this may become frequent, say experts

Sea’s toxic touch

Methylation in oceans turns harmless mercury harmful

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Arctic forest fires caused by global warming can jeopardise climate goals: Study

Around 146 million tonnes of carbon was released in the 2019 and 2020 fires in the Arctic

New avian influenza strain in Southeast Asia ‘travelling fast’, warns FAO

In less than six months after first reported in China, the H5N6 virus has been detected in poultries in Lao and Vietnam

May 2021 was the sixth-warmest May on record, says NOAA

2021 could be among the top 10 hottest years on record, says report

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Can fast-moving glaciers contribute to sea-level rise?

Sea-level rise depends on how meltwater drainage operates and modulates the speeds of glaciers

Atmospheric rivers are hitting the Arctic more often and increasingly melting its sea ice

Sea ice loss also contributes to global warming and to extreme storms that cause economic damage well beyond the Arctic

Above-normal rainfall, cyclones: Why September 2021 was a unique month for India

September of 2021 the second-wettest September in 27 years; Several states that experienced enhanced rainfall were staring at drought in the …

By 2050, climate change may threaten human existence

Report flags that scientific predictions till now have underestimated the severity of the crisis, and says the world is on path to 3 degree …

Warming has changed Arctic forever; 2017 could be third hottest year on record: studies

In 2017, the Arctic continued to warm at double the rate of the global temperature increase

Antarctic sea ice expansion overestimated, says study

Findings say data error could have led to belief that Antarctic ice cover was increasing even as Arctic ice cover was shrinking because of global …