Peter Kalmus was among a group of scientists who chained themselves to a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles in protest of the bank’s financing of fossil fuels. Tap to watch the video
Hayhoe says people can use their roles in their workplaces and communities to act on the climate crisis
Katharine Hayhoe has wrestled with her climate footprint. The climate scientist, who is now…
Climate experts say their message is getting through but more urgent work is needed
Scientists attending Cop26 have sent a clear warning to policymakers: get a move on, because every moment of delay…
Scientists and politicians say we are facing a planetary crisis because of climate change.
But what's the evidence for global warming and how do we know it's being caused by humans?
How do we know…
The threats to our cities seem endless - from flash flooding to pollution, overcrowding to the risk of pandemics.
To help avert crises, many cities have invested in technology - the theory being…
This year’s Nobel prize in physics has been split between Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi. While Parisi is a theoretical physicist, the other two are climate modellers whose work…
The IPCC is unequivocal: we must take urgent action to curb global heating and prevent catastrophe. Will our policymakers and the Cop26 conference be up to the task?
At the end of the 60s sci-fi…
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it…
Better use of the latest climate attribution science in lawsuits against companies and governments that pollute could bring far more wins in the courts, says a new study in Nature Climate Change.
“Convective” storms cause some of Earth’s most dramatic weather, including extreme rainfall, hail, lightning and severe wind gusts. Along with lighting up the skies, these storms frequently cause…
A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years later than previously believed.
Earth's transition to permanently hosting an oxygenated atmosphere was a…
To mark the tenth anniversary of Nature Climate Change, we asked a selection of researchers across the broad range of climate change disciplines to share their thoughts on notable developments of the…
Scientists at the University of Arizona have proposed a literal conservation moonshot.
The plan? A solar-powered ark containing seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from 6.7 million Earth species, to…
That's pretty metal!
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography report that a whole ecosystem of microbes below the sea dines not on sunlight, but on…
Why there is no such thing as a scientific proof.
Misconceptions about the nature and practice of science abound and are sometimes even held by otherwise respectable practicing scientists themselves…
Scientists have identified the 19th form of water ice. The exotic, four-sided crystals of this rare ice variety, now dubbed ice XIX, form at ultra-low temperatures and ultra-high pressures.
It only…
Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph.
But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the…
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