Whether it’s the horsetail found in the nearby forest or changing polar bear habitats, Grade 4 student Nora Gemmiti has enjoyed the climate-related lessons she’s been learning at school. “You’re learning something new and then you know how to take care of this world in a better way,” said the [...]
Trees are typically organized into two categories: hardwoods (angiosperms) and softwoods (gymnosperms). A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that could explain the nanoscale architecture of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), which contains structural elements whose size is squarely in between hardwood and softwood. [...]
The climate has changed throughout the Earth’s history and natural factors, such as El Niño, can affect the weather for shorter periods of time, as happened in 2023. But natural causes cannot explain the particularly rapid warming seen in the last century, according to the UN’s climate body, the IPCC. [...]
On this page Chapter 1 Informing climate action Science provides the evidence and data on the impacts of climate change, but it also gives us the tools and knowledge as to how we need to address it. (…) We are now clearly in the era of implementation, and that means [...]
State of climate science: the need for urgent and ambitious climate action Human-caused climate change has resulted in widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere. The year 2023 was the warmest on record by a large margin, with widespread extreme weather. This trend continued in the [...]
