Researchers have discovered that as global warming causes the North Atlantic’s Gulf Stream to migrate further north, it blocks the flow of water flowing from the Arctic via the Labrador Current, a situation resulting in detrimental changes in the environment in the waters off of the North American Shelf. Typically,read more
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
An extremely rare subtropical storm has formed in the South Atlantic, formally named Subtropical Storm Potira by the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center. Potira initially formed on April 19, with its 1-minute wind speed peaking at 85 km/h (55 mph) and the storm’s pressure dropping to 1002 hPa (mbar) as of Aprilread more