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London, the Houses of Parliament painting

‘A meteorologist of the soul’: Monet’s changing atmosphere

The French impressionist painted smoke, fog, ice, and sunlight with extraordinary attention, recording how industry, weather, memory, and emotion shaped what he saw.
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Thu, Oct 8, 2026
A father and son sort a fishing net in Nigeria (David Trilling)

A super El Niño is starting. Here’s what scientists know – and don’t

This year, the ancient Pacific cycle is unfolding on a hotter planet, adding to record warmth, shifting rainfall, and creating risks scientists can only partly predict.
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Mon, Sep 21, 2026
Close-up hands of a cocoa farmer use pruning shears to cut the cocoa pods or fruit ripe yellow cacao from the cacao tree. Harvest the agricultural cocoa business produces.

Chocolate’s new climate threat: Too much rain

Drought is not the only climate challenge facing cocoa farmers. Better warnings before extreme rains could help them protect their harvests.
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Mon, Sep 14, 2026
boy on a boat in Ivory Coast

Seawalls and other hard choices on the shore

A cost-benefit analysis suggests that seawalls can buy Côte d’Ivoire time – but not a lasting answer.
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Tue, Aug 18, 2026
hot sun in the city

When heat hits home: Climate change’s hidden and deadly toll

Buildings, housing conditions, and access to cooling shape the health risks of extreme heat. A study from Boston shows how the cost of buying and running air conditioning can leave high-risk residents without protection.
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Mon, Aug 10, 2026
hand blocking sun

When a heat wave is coming, who is most at risk?

A free new tool makes cutting-edge data streams available to anyone, helping planners map where extreme heat, health risks, and vulnerability collide – block by block.
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Wed, Jul 29, 2026

Will the AMOC slow? Collapse? Four ways scientists study the Atlantic current

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is likely to weaken. But there will be no certainty without decades more ocean data.
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Tue, Jul 7, 2026
child flood

Climate anxiety is real. That does not make it a diagnosis

A child psychiatrist explains why distress over climate change should not be reduced to individual pathology.
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Mon, Jun 29, 2026
El Nino sat image by NOAA

How we came to understand El Niño

For centuries, farmers, fishermen, and forecasters saw pieces of the same climate pattern. Modern observations revealed how a warming Pacific can reshape weather around the world. Now global warming is making some of those effects harder to predict.
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Mon, Jun 22, 2026
coastal village in Côte d’Ivoire

Africa’s rising seas, mapped and measured coast-to-coast

A new tool lets users click anywhere on Africa’s shoreline to visualize how sea level has changed since 1900, what forces are driving the accelerating change, and how much more to expect by 2100.
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Mon, Jun 15, 2026
Maine forest

The old forests nobody knew were there

Hidden in northern Maine, newly revealed old forests store vast amounts of carbon. But most remain unprotected on private timberland.
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Mon, Jun 8, 2026
May’s heatwaves offer early warning for workers

May’s heatwaves offer early warning for workers

As cities prepare for hotter summers, protecting people on the job will require enforceable rules, local action, and workers’ voices.
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Thu, Jun 4, 2026