BeyondKONA: Climate

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The year that just ended saw numerous records broken on climate and clean energy.  It was the second-hottest […]

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, January 4, 2026 thru Sat, January 10, […]

Open access notablesA Long-Term Shift in Flow Regimes over the Antarctic Peninsula, Guarino et al., Journal of ClimateWe present consequences of Antarctic […]

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief The UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Renewable energy and climate action boomed in communities, states, and the world in […]

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Izzy Woolgar, director of external affairs at the Centre for Net Zero; Andy Hackett, senior policy adviser at […]

There has been a frenzy around artificial intelligence and deep machine learning (AI/ML) since the “ChatGPT Moment” in 2022, and AI/ML is for sure going to […]

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 28, 2025 thru Sat, January 3, […]

Open access notablesEditorial: Surviving the Anthropocene: the 3 E’s under pressing planetary issues, Sanita Lima et al., Frontiers in Ecology and […]

This month’s open thread. We’re not great ones for New Year’s resolutions, but let’s try. How about we resolve to stay substantive, refrain from […]

This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics I thought I’d written about this before, but can’t seem to find a post. Either, my searching ability is […]

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Josh Gabbatiss China’s coal demand is set to drop by 2027, more than cancelling out the effects of the Trump […]

The Paris Agreement temperature limits are a little ambiguous and knowing where we are is tricky. The desire to keep global temperature rises since the […]

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 21, 2025 thru Sat, December 27, […]

Open access notablesSatellite altimetry reveals intensifying global river water level variability, Fang et al., Nature CommunicationsRiver water levels […]

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Flooding in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) has recently turned deadly serious, as days of intense rain […]

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Tis the season for global temperature forecasts. The UK Met Office recently released their 2026 prediction, […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics as 2025 wraps up. Please be courteous to each other. Tis the season! The post Unforced Variations: Dec 2025 first […]

Climate risk scores on real estate listings are having an impact on prices and realtors are complaining. But who should pay for these losses? If you have been […]

Hi folks, just a quick maintenance notice to say that we are upgrading the blog to a more recent version of PHP (which is the code that underlies WordPress) […]

Guest commentary by Figen Mekik Climate change has become “that” topic – like evolution of species, plate tectonics, or AI where the public has heard […]

This month’s open thread. Please stick to climate-related topics and refrain from abusive behavior. The post Unforced variations: Nov 2025 first appeared on […]

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at […]

This month’s open thread. Lots of salient stuff this month so please try and stay focused and constructive! The post Unforced variations: Oct 2025 first […]

By Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Quick Key Facts What Is Methane? What has no color or smell and is found in wetlands, cow burps and your basement […]

New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York […]

A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024. In January 2024, […]

Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed […]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to many species of rare and endangered wildlife, such as mountain gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas and […]

World hunger fell overall last year, but continued to rise in most of Africa and western Asia, according to a new report — The State of Food Security and […]

A beneficial bacterial probiotic is restoring hope for mitigating disease spread in corals off the coast of Florida. In a new study, scientists have […]

Earth Overshoot Day is the point in the year when human demand for materials obtained from nature exceeds what the Earth can naturally regenerate in one year. […]

The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to researchers from the Society for […]

In a landmark finding, the United Nations’ top court on Wednesday issued an advisory opinion stating that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” […]