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  Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica down by two-thirds since 2011, probably due to climate crisis The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the climate crisis, a study has revealed. Scientists said the rapid demise of chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski, the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica, increased the risk of a wider ecosystem collapse. “It is an enormous population crash, equivalent to half a mi...

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  Climate change will shape the future of Texas. Students should be allowed to learn about it. Introduction The State of Texas is in the midst of a state-government takeover of its public universities. One apparent goal is to limit what students can learn about subjects that challenge powerful special interests, particularly the fossil fuel industry. As part of this effort, the state has removed climate change courses from the core curriculum at Texas public universities. https://www.theclimate...

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  Includes an excellent explanation of the conceptual foundations, synoptic and predictive assessment methods of ''safe operating space'' for our planet. 'The Planetary Health Check is a yearly report on the state of our planet. It presents the most up-to-date assessments of the Planetary Boundaries, gives thorough introductions into cutting-edge science, and spotlights especially relevant aspects of our planet's health. In this 2026 edition, we place a special focus on ca...

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  Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ On her first day as an expert author on the world’s most important climate reports, Prof Julia Steinberger knew nobody else, so she sat down at a stranger’s table for breakfast. “Hi, I’m Julia. I’m from the University of Lausanne,” she said. The man across the table replied: “I’m Mustafa Babiker. I work with Saudi Aramco.” Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s...

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  The repeal of this rule is the latest in the Trump Administration’s attempts to roll back federal climate regulation. “It is certainly possible to have policies that assume climate change will have no impacts, and that is what we are doing,” says Michael Greenstone, director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth at the University of Chicago. “But the atmosphere and the climate don't recognize those misstatements, and we will be stuck with a nastier, more virulent form of clima...

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  Does hosting wind turbines provide farmers with additional income? Yes. Wind projects provide farmers with substantial economic benefits while allowing most land to remain in agricultural use. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates about 98 percent of land within a typical wind project remains available for farming, grazing, or other uses. Meanwhile, farmers who host turbines can r... https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-windrural.html

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  In preparation for the relaunch of our website later this year, we need to do some prep-work related to our translated rebuttals. For the updated website, we need to provide more information than is currently available for the translations and we need your help with that if you are fluent in any of these languages: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak,...