According to NOAA , the global average temperature for June 2016 was 0.9 degrees Celsius above the average of the 20th century, breaking last year’s record for the hottest June at 0.02 degrees Celsius. June thus becomes the fourteenth consecutive month with a heat record in the world . NOAA’s global temperature records date back … Read more
As soon as we take a look at the temperatures that the thermometers reach during the rigors of this heatwave, we will agree that, both for temperature and for the sustained time of said temperature, things are not going well at all. In fact, they are going so badly that it has already been assumed … Read more
Ecosystems could be seriously disrupted if much of the world’s parasites are extinguished, something that could happen in the coming decades as a result of climate change . Tapeworms, worms, ticks, lice, fleas and other pests do not seem very important, rather they pose a health problem on many occasions, but existence helps control wildlife … Read more
As big as a country such as Portugal , so is the recently discovered hole in the winter sea ice cover around Antarctica. This opening, known as a polynya (an open space of water surrounded by sea ice), is the largest observed in the Weddell Sea since the 1970s. Giant polynya A polynya allows the … Read more
On Mount Tambora, in present-day Indonesia, there was a volcanic eruption so intense in 1815 that it covered much of the Earth in ash, blocking some of the sun’s rays and producing a year without a summer. That is to say, that a volcano cooled the Earth (and, in addition, it inspired Romanticism to the … Read more
The rise in the level of the oceans will not be equivalent around the Earth, and some cities will be more affected than others. A prediction model that takes into account various factors determines the cities that will be flooded out of a total of 293 . Floods Created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in … Read more
A report shows that the United States is the country where the issue of climate change is most debated by politicians and the public, as shown in the graph that you can see below . In a published report by Ipsos Mori, a UK market research group, 16,000 people in 20 countries were asked questions … Read more
Climate change is disappearing from US government websites – and research websites, too. EPA’s climate change web page was pulled in April to "reflect EPA’s priorities under President Trump’s leadership." And 214 days later, the page is still not accessible . Although there is still an archived version, pages, PDF files, and entire sections, such … Read more
We have been breaking temperature records for several years, both globally and locally, in Spain . However, this 2018 seems to have brought us an unusually mild summer . When is "hell" going to start? Beachwear and the desire to swim in the pool increase as we wait for the next heat wave. But we … Read more
Rising temperatures due to climate change could profoundly affect economic growth around the world, making some countries richer and others poorer . To predict these changes , a team of scientists from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, have turned to historical records of how temperature affects key aspects of the economy. Benefited countries … Read more
A new study that has used global satellite data spanning more than 30 years, from 1985 to 2018, indicates that sea storms have increased in intensity in the last 30 years , especially in the Southern Ocean. For example, extreme winds in the Southern Ocean have increased by 1.5 meters per second, or 8 percent, … Read more
About 83 percent of all calories produced on farmland are produced by 10 crops , whose yields are declining due to climate change, according to a new study led by the University of Minnesota, conducted with researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Copenhagen. The 10 crops are: barley, cassava, corn, oil … Read more
Most countries are highly dependent on the activity of their cities, and many of these cities are located on the coasts of many countries, given the advantages of maritime transport that this entails. More than 10 percent of the world’s population resides in urban centers less than 10 meters above sea level . However, this … Read more
The phenomenon was "surprisingly" consistent across a variety of bird species, according to the authors of a new study . Lead author Dave Willard took measurements from the 70,716 bird samples in this study and recorded them by hand in ledgers like the one you can see at the top of this post. This photo … Read more
Researchers have shown that embryos and reproductive adults are more susceptible to ocean warming, so fish would be at much higher risk from climate change than previously thought. In the worst case (5 ° C global warming), up to 60 percent of the world’s fish species would not be able to cope with temperatures in … Read more