Fires in the Amazon forest may melt sea ice in Antarctica
Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil …
Solar geoengineering moves into the spotlight as climate concerns grow
Earth’s average temperature is continuing to tick inexorably upward as the world’s nations stall at reducing their atmosphere-warming emissions. In the face of that grim future, strategies to try to …
A lush, green Arabian Desert may have once linked Africa and Asia
The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study …
Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models
Conversational AI chatbots are making climate misinformation sound more credible, making it harder to distinguish falsehoods from real science. In response, climate experts are using some of the same tools …