The rate of human-caused warming has risen from about 0.18C per decade across the 1970s-2000s to roughly 0.27C per decade over 2015-2024, according to the peer-reviewed Indicators of Global Climate Ch

Each year, Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres cycle through four seasons, including summer. Given that the hemispheres are symmetric about the equator, you may think that, on both sides of the...

Victoria Rainis asking the important questions The "Environments Through Time" course at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is currently underway for our MSc Biological Science and MSc Earth Science students. As part of the first week of the course we took advantage of two of our current MSc research students (Chiara Rainio and Bouwe Groeneveld) and two visiting researchers (Victoria Rainis and Trevor Hill) to give the students an insight into past environmental change in Africa.

A one-hour timescale shows how Earth’s 4.5 billion years unfolded, and how recently complex life and humans appeared.

This story was inspired by a niece of mine, my brother’s younger daughter. It’s a long text and a preview of what to expect is probably…

Each year, Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres cycle through four seasons, including summer. Given that the hemispheres are symmetric about the equator, you may think that, on both sides of the...

Each year, Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres cycle through four seasons, including summer. Given that the hemispheres are symmetric about the equator, you may think that, on both sides of the...

Swiss glaciers now hold roughly 45–46 cubic kilometres of ice, down from about 100 cubic kilometres in 1931, meaning more than half has already melted. On 25 July 2022 the zero-degree isotherm — the a

Adding 2024 (about 2.5%) and 2025 (about 3%), Swiss glaciers shed roughly 15% of their ice in four years, and close to one-fifth when the smaller losses of 2021 are included. On 25 July 2022 MeteoSwis