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Climate

Astronomers spot new type of storm on Saturn

These storms are bigger and longer lasting than squalls but not nearly as massive as this planet's Great White Spots.

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Report sums up climate’s already dramatic impact on oceans and ice

Melting glaciers, stronger storms and acidifying oceans are signs of climate change today, a new IPCC report says. Putting a brake on greenhouse emissions could limit how dire things get.

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At the United Nations, youth leaders call for true climate action

Hundreds of young climate leaders gathered on September 21 for the first-ever United Nations Youth Climate Summit.

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Climate misinformation may be thriving on YouTube

An analysis of 200 climate-related videos on YouTube shows that a majority challenge widely the accepted science about climate change and climate engineering.

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Catch up with Climate Change Chronicles

Science News for Students spent a year documenting climate change around the globe. Here’s a roundup of the main stories from the series.

Climate

Record heat is burning the Arctic and melting Greenland’s ice

High temperatures are melting Greenland’s ice. They’re also fueling Arctic wildfires that are pumping record amounts of carbon dioxide into the air.

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Today’s global warming is unlike the last 2,000 years of climate shifts

Temperatures at the end of the 20th century were hotter almost everywhere on the planet than in the previous two millennia. And it’s only gotten hotter.

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Slow hurricanes, like Dorian, become dangerous and hard to predict

The warming seas associated with climate change may be fueling powerful but sluggish hurricanes, the type that 2019’s Dorian exemplifies. A climate scientist explains why.

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Climate change may be aiding a deadly fungus in infecting humans

A deadly fungus infecting humans around the world may have been worsened by climate change.

Animals

Mystery disease is killing Caribbean corals

Scientists are racing to pin down a new coral disease that’s “annihilating” whole species from Caribbean reefs.

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Explainer: Why some clouds glow in the dark

A surprise space rock lit up the night sky over California — and left behind a rare type of cloud. Such glowing beauties may become more common with climate change.

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Night-glowing clouds crept south this summer

Clouds typical of polar skies have been showing up over the lower United States. Scientists want to know why.