The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is now producing more carbon emissions than it is absorbing from the atmosphere, due to the continued degradation of this massive biome. Although deforestation activities play no small part in this degradation, climate change-fueled droughts and wildfires have also been a major contributor to theread more

A new study has discovered that climate change is altering the way the Earth wobbles as it spins about its axis, causing the planet’s natural short-term polar drift to increase in speed by 1,600 percent over what it was in the 1980s—and even to cause the drift’s motion to changeread more