Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

The ocean has absorbed about 30% of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities since the Industrial Revolution, significantly slowing the pace of climate change. But as emissions continue to rise, ...

Malnourished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’ Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site Top Climate Scientists Accuse the ...

On a special episode (first released on March 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast:What if we can slow climate change by giving the ocean an antacid? It’s called ocean alkalinity enhancement and it’s ...

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

A subpolar gyre is a large-scale ocean current system located at high latitudes created by a persistent region of low atmospheric pressure. These gyres circulate water in a cyclonic direction – ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

The Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean holds today large amounts of fresh water. If the gyre weakens due to climate change, it will release freshwater that could flood the North Atlantic and have an ...

A few years ago, NASA researcher Watson Gregg published a study showing that tiny free-floating ocean plants called phytoplankton had declined in abundance globally by 6 percent between the 1980s and ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...