Climate

Climate

Hotspots found for lightning’s superbolts

A nine-year survey reveals where and when the most energetic lightning strikes — and it’s not what scientists expected.

Earth

Powerful storms may be causing ‘stormquakes’ offshore

A perfect-storm mixture of hurricane, ocean and seafloor structures can create distinct seismic signals that have now been named ‘stormquakes.’

Physics

Frozen’s ice queen commands ice and snow — maybe we can too

In the Frozen movies, Elsa magically manipulates snow and ice. But scientists, too, make snowflakes. If they reinforce it, architects can build with ice and snow.

Planets

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.

Climate

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.

Science & Society

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.

Science & Society

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.

Climate

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.

Climate

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.

Climate

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.

Health & Medicine

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.