NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists behind a landmark research of the hyperlinks between oceans, glaciers, ice caps and the climate delivered a stark warning to the world on Wednesday: slash emissions or watch cities vanish beneath rising seas, rivers run dry and marine life collapse. Days after tens of millions of younger individuals demanded an finish to the fossil-fuel period …

ST THOMAS, Virgin Islands/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Off the coast of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a bunch of scientists is tearing a reef aside in a feverish try to save a few of its coral. They are battling a fast-moving, deadly disease that researchers say is unprecedented in the velocity with which it might injury giant numbers …

KEY WEST, Fla. (Reuters) – Emily Hower, a analysis assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing discipline work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving masks. The information isn’t good. Most of the pillar coral that her staff have been monitoring for years are lifeless. Hower and her colleagues are on …

MIKHMORET, Israel (Reuters) – On a Mediterranean seashore in Israel, a newly-hatched child turtle fumbles alongside the sand, making its approach to the ocean for the very first time. The hatchling, one in all 60 to be launched into the wild this week, is a part of a singular conservation program run by the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center. Green …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cataclysmic asteroid affect off Mexico’s coast that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not the one time an astronomical occasion shaped the historical past of life on Earth. FILE PHOTO: This illustration exhibits an enormous asteroid collision between Mars and Jupiter that occurred 466 million years ago and produced the mud that led to …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From grasslands to seashores to forests and backyards, birds are disappearing at an alarming charge in the United States and Canada, with a 29% inhabitants drop since 1970 and a web lack of about 2.9 billion birds, scientists stated on Thursday. People are to blame, the researchers stated, citing components together with widespread habitat loss and degradation, …

TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) – Scientists from 19 international locations are making ready to embark on a year-long expedition to the Arctic, the longest challenge of its sort, to higher perceive world climate change. The icebreaker Polarstern is making ready to set sail from Tromsoe in northern Norway, permitting lots of of rotating researchers to spend the subsequent 12 months shut …

People board the Arctic analysis expedition ship RV Polarstern in Breivika harbour in Tromso, Norway, September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) – Scientists from 19 international locations are making ready to embark on a year-long expedition to the Arctic, the longest mission of its sort, to higher perceive world climate change. The icebreaker Polarstern is making ready to …