July 19 was the hottest day ever recorded in the United Kingdom, with temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (about 104 degrees Fahrenheit). The heatwave serves as an early preview of what climate ...

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. In April of this ...

Humans are driving migratory animals—sea turtles, chimpanzees, lions, and penguins, among dozens of other species—towards extinction, according to the most comprehensive assessment of migratory ...

This article was originally featured in The Conversation. Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Firefighters were battling large blazes in ...

Fig. 1. (A) Processes involved in human activities through CE impact GWS. (B) Time trends of CEP (in kilograms of CO 2 ) from energy industry (ENE), combustion for manufacturing (IND), production of ...

Deforestation in Tongsa, Bhutan, 2013 (Photo by Curt Carnemark / World Bank) WASHINGTON, DC, January 16, 2015 (ENS) – Human activities have “dangerously compromised” four of the nine processes that ...

Most of the world’s scientists agree that climate change is driven by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by human activity, such as fossil fuel burning. Weather modification such as cloud ...

Officially, we’re in what’s known as the Holocene, the geological epoch that began at the end of the last ice age. But the influence of human activity on the Earth’s ecosystems has become so extreme ...

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...

The new, highly-contagious Delta variant — spread with the ease of chickenpox — is causing COVID-19 cases to skyrocket across the globe as health officials respond with alarm. “The war has changed,” ...