Climate change

Democratic Conservation Alliance -  Glacier National Park once had 150 majestic glaciers. Now they have 26.

Joshua Tree National Park is experiencing such bad tree loss that scientists predict their namesake tree will be completely disappear by the end of the century.

The beautiful Everglades has lost over half of its original wetland habitat.

Inside Climate News -   The Pacific Ocean is a giant climate cauldron, with a powerful heat engine that affects storms, fisheries and rainfall patterns half a world away, and scientists are watching closely to see if it’s about to boil over. 

Their projections suggest the tropical Pacific is simmering toward a strong El Niño, the warm phase of an ocean-atmosphere cycle that can intensify and shift those impacts.

In a world already superheated by greenhouse gases, a strong El Niño during the next 12 to 18 months could permanently push the planet’s average annual temperature past the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold enshrined in scientific documents and political agreements as a turning point for potentially irreversible climate impacts.

Climate scientists also recently published a study showing that strong El Niño events can trigger what they called “climate regime shifts,” meaning abrupt, lasting changes in heat, rainfall and drought patterns.