In dives to the seafloor, scientists have noticed big differences in only a few years.
The whale stranding was the third largest in New Zealand history, since the country began keeping data in the 1800s.
Ice in the north Bering Sea is diminishing, researchers aboard a Coast Guard ship report.
Veterinarians in California use tilapia skin to treat burns on bears injured during wildfires.
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East to Southern California, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week.
This latest temperature spike is another striking indicator of the Arctic's rapidly changing climate.
A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in,” Statsbygg spokeswoman Hege Njaa Aschim told the Guardian of the water breach.
The 'blob' caused it this time around. But oceans will keep getting warmer in the future.
Dozens have perished in Brazil's sixth-largest city after a record-breaking deluge.
Scientists first caught on to the strange event when they found thousands of purple sea urchins and other organisms dead in their laboratory tanks.
Arctic temperatures are warmer than ever recorded in February.
Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.
A mysterious anthrax outbreak over the summer killed more than 2,300 reindeer and at least one child.
On Monday, Anchorage reached the 70-degree threshold for a record 14th straight day, breaking 2004's record of 13.
It was December when the first reports started coming in: All across the frozen Mongolian steppe, saiga were dying from a virus. The antelope species, with its tawny coat, ringed horns and incongruous oversize snout, has roamed the world's chilly northern grasslands since the Pleistocene.
Fueled by climate change, the heat wave is unprecedented in its timing, intensity and scope. Coupled with a catastrophic drought that has damaged crops and shrunk vital reservoirs to all-time lows, the blazing weather is a trademark of human-caused warming.
The devastating storm once known as Hurricane Harvey, already the biggest rainstorm in the history of the continental United States, delivered another punishing wave of rain Wednesday to Texas and Louisiana.
The remote Arctic tundra may seem like the last place on Earth human pollution should be causing a problem — yet it’s filled with mercury contamination.
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