Last week, world leaders from more than 30 countries across North America and Europe gathered in Washington to discuss the top security threats facing members of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. During the summit, NATO released a report outlining the accelerating...
A new global assessment of scientific literature led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds that nature-based solutions (NbS) are an economically effective method to mitigate risks from a range of disasters — from floods and hurricanes to heatwaves and...
Record-breaking heat wave has swept across Europe. The Italian health ministry placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning on Tuesday as a wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans and sent temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with...
Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released...
A towering species of tree cactus no longer grows naturally in the US, largely due to saltwater inundation from rising sea levels in the one place it was found in the country – the Florida Keys, according to scientists whose work was published in the Journal of the Botanical Research...
