Countdown to Extinction

‘Blood rain’ and fiery skies threaten Europe thanks to massive Saharan dust storm Known as “La Calima,” this desert dust plume could hit Spain, Portugal and France, bringing with it grit-laden, rust-colored rainfall

Saharan dust storms bring risk of ‘blood rain' and fiery skies to southern Europe #Science #EarthSciences #Meteorology #DustStorms #ClimateChange #AtmosphericPhenomena

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/saharan-dust-storms-bring-risk-of-blood-rain-and-fiery-skies-to-southern/

China's Fossil Fuel Emissions Dropped Last Year as Solar Boomed

China's Fossil Fuel Emissions Dropped Last Year as Solar Boomed #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #ClimateChange

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-emissions-2025

EV Battery Tech Can Keep Up With a Heating World Haochi Wu wasn't looking at academic literature when the question first caught him. He was reading web forums — threads full of anxiety from ordinary

EV Battery Tech Can Keep Up With a Heating World #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #EVBattery #SustainableTech #ClimateChange

https://scienceblog.com/ev-battery-tech-can-keep-up-with-a-heating-world/

A Hidden African Carbon Vault Is Starting to Leak A vast African peatland once thought stable is now leaking carbon thousands of years old. Tropical swamps and peatlands are major components of Earth’s carbon system and play a significant role in regulating the climate. Regions such as the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin, and the wetlands of Southea

A Hidden African Carbon Vault Is Starting to Leak #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #CarbonVault #ClimateChange

https://scitechdaily.com/a-hidden-african-carbon-vault-is-starting-to-leak/

Something very strange is happening under Greenland’s ice | BBC Science Focus Magazine The phenomenon was described by a professor as similar to "a pot of boiling pasta" – and it's happening to solid ice.

Something very strange is happening under Greenland’s ice #Science #EarthSciences #Glaciology #GreenlandIce #ClimateChange

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/something-strange-greenland-ice-sheet

Wildfires in the Arctic May Be Releasing Far More Carbon Than We Thought Northern wildfires may be unleashing hidden reservoirs of ancient carbon — and climate models are missing much of it.

Wildfires in the Arctic May Be Releasing Far More Carbon Than We Thought #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Wildfires #ClimateChange #Arctic

https://scitechdaily.com/wildfires-in-the-arctic-may-be-releasing-far-more-carbon-than-we-thought/

Japanese Scientists Map Extreme Rain Risk for Next 100 Years Japan receives its rain unevenly. In a given year, the southern island of Kyushu might endure a typhoon season that dumps more water in a week than some

Japanese Scientists Map Extreme Rain Risk for Next 100 Years #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #RainfallRisk

https://scienceblog.com/japanese-scientists-map-extreme-rain-risk-for-next-100-years/

Antarctica’s Cloud Mystery: What’s Really Floating Above the Ice? A rare deep-field Antarctic flight campaign has uncovered unexpected aerosol concentrations over the continent’s interior.

Antarctica’s Cloud Mystery: What’s Really Floating Above the Ice? #Science #EarthSciences #Meteorology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #WeatherPatterns

https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-cloud-mystery-whats-really-floating-above-the-ice/

Antarctica's Melting Ice Isn't Feeding The Ocean The Way Scientists Thought Antarctic meltwater isn't the iron source scientists thought. New data could reshape how we model the Southern Ocean's future.

Antarctica’s Melting Ice Isn’t Feeding The Ocean The Way Scientists Thought #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #OceanScience

https://studyfinds.com/antarcticas-melting-ice-isnt-feeding-ocean/

Scientists Thought Antarctic Ice Melt Helped Fight Climate Change. It Doesn’t Scientists testing a popular climate theory in Antarctica found that melting glaciers deliver far less iron to the ocean than previously believed.

Scientists Thought Antarctic Ice Melt Helped Fight Climate Change. It Doesn’t #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #AntarcticIce #GlobalWarming

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-thought-antarctic-ice-melt-helped-fight-climate-change-it-doesnt/

Can degrowth save the climate? – podcast Madeleine Finlay hears from Nick Stern, professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics, and Jason Hickel, a political economist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, two economists arguing for a change in how we measure a country’s economic success.

Can degrowth save the climate? – podcast #Science #Other #Degrowth #ClimateChange #Sustainability

https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/feb/26/can-degrowth-save-the-climate-podcast

Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators

Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study #Science #Biology #Ecology #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #PlantScience

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/tropical-plants-flower-shifted-months-climate-breakdown-aoe

Dry-Season Floods Drench Northern Colombia - NASA Science Villages and farmland were swamped after unusually heavy early-February rains pushed the Sinú River over its banks.

Dry-Season Floods Drench Northern Colombia #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ColombiaFloods #ClimateChange #NaturalDisasters

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/dry-season-floods-drench-northern-colombia/

Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some butterflies to stay put.

Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #MonarchButterflies #Biodiversity

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/monarch-butterfly-migration-climate

How ancient Scottish rocks throw ‘snowball Earth’ theory up in the air Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber

How ancient Scottish rocks throw ‘snowball Earth’ theory up in the air #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #SnowballEarth #AncientGeology #ClimateChangeTheory

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/25/how-ancient-scottish-rocks-throw-snowball-earth-theory-up-in-the-air

Climate Scientists Warn The Tour de France Can't Dodge The Heat Forever Scientists say rising heat in France puts the Tour de France on a collision course with dangerous conditions it's never faced.

Climate Scientists Warn The Tour de France Can’t Dodge The Heat Forever #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #TourdeFrance #HeatWave

https://studyfinds.com/tour-de-france-exteme-heat/

Melting Antarctic Ice Disrupted Earth’s Global Ocean Conveyor Belt A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.

Melting Antarctic Ice Disrupted Earth’s Global Ocean Conveyor Belt #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #Antarctic #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://scitechdaily.com/melting-antarctic-ice-disrupted-earths-global-ocean-conveyor-belt/

Arctic Clouds Are Being Seeded by Spores From Faraway Forests A spore travels a long way to make a cloud. Released by a fungus in the boreal forests of Alaska or Canada, it drifts upward, catches a wind, and begins a

Arctic Clouds Are Being Seeded by Spores From Faraway Forests #Science #EarthSciences #Meteorology #ArcticClouds #ClimateChange #EcosystemConnections

https://scienceblog.com/arctic-clouds-are-being-seeded-by-spores-from-faraway-forests/

Did Climate Change End One of China’s Greatest Dynasties? Severe droughts and floods in 9th-century China may have triggered migration, weakened border defenses, and accelerated the fall of the Tang dynasty.

Did Climate Change End One of China’s Greatest Dynasties? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #History #ChinaDynasties

https://scitechdaily.com/did-climate-change-end-one-of-chinas-greatest-dynasties/

Black Lakes Are Leaking Ancient Carbon Into The Sky The water of Lac Mai Ndombe looks like cold tea. Dark, nearly opaque, stained deep brown by millennia of decaying vegetation washing in from the

Black Lakes Are Leaking Ancient Carbon Into The Sky #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateChange #CarbonEmissions #Ecosystems

https://scienceblog.com/black-lakes-are-leaking-ancient-carbon-into-the-sky/

This Decade Will Shape The Fate Of Antarctica's Ice Shelves Antarctica's ice shelves are melting fast. Scientists say emissions cuts this decade could still prevent the worst outcomes.

This Decade Will Shape The Fate Of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves #Science #EarthSciences #Glaciology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #IceShelves

https://studyfinds.com/this-decade-decides-antarcticas-fate/

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #Wildfires #EnvironmentalScience

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/simultaneous-wildfires-climate

As the Planet Warms Nature’s Engine Is Grinding to a Halt As the planet heats up, the natural engine that keeps ecosystems turning is quietly slowing down.

As the Planet Warms Nature’s Engine Is Grinding to a Halt #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact #Sustainability

https://scitechdaily.com/as-the-planet-warms-natures-engine-is-grinding-to-a-halt/

Our Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for a Warming Antarctica When Peter Convey first set foot on Signy Island in the South Orkney archipelago in 1989, there was a small rock poking through the surface of the McCloud

Our Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for a Warming Antarctica #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #Antarctica #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

https://scienceblog.com/our-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-a-warming-antarctica/

Uranus Has Been Quietly Cooling For Decades And Now We Know Why It Matters For fifteen hours last January, the James Webb Space Telescope stared at a single target — watching it rotate, methodically slicing through its faint

Uranus Has Been Quietly Cooling For Decades And Now We Know Why It Matters #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #Uranus #ClimateChange

https://scienceblog.com/uranus-has-been-quietly-cooling-for-decades-and-now-we-know-why-it-matters/

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds | Quanta Magazine The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds.

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #AtmosphericScience #CloudPhysics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/climate-physicists-face-the-ghosts-in-their-machines-clouds-20260220/

How will repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ hit US action on climate? Without 2009 ruling emissions regulations on everything from cars and power stations to blast furnaces could collapse

How will repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ hit US action on climate? #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalPolicy #EndangermentFinding

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/how-will-repealing-the-endangerment-finding-hit-us-action-on-climate/4022987.article

Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today #Science #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalScience #Antarctica #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/irreversible-climate-antarctica

Why Are the World's Forests Changing the Way They Breathe? Across the world’s forests, an invisible force is quietly altering one of Earth’s largest carbon cycles.

Why Are the World’s Forests Changing the Way They Breathe? #Science #EarthSciences #Ecology #Forests #ClimateChange

https://scitechdaily.com/why-are-the-worlds-forests-changing-the-way-they-breathe/

Deadliest U.S. Avalanche in Decades Raises Alarms About Changing Climate Conditions Learn more about the massive avalanche near Lake Tahoe that killed eight skiers and is exposing how snow droughts and climate change are increasing avalanche risk.

Deadliest U.S. Avalanche in Decades Raises Alarms About Changing Climate Conditions #Science #EarthSciences #Climatology #AvalancheSafety #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact

https://www.discovermagazine.com/deadliest-u-s-avalanche-in-decades-raises-alarms-about-changing-climate-conditions-48709