Climate Change
As greenhouse gas emissions rise, so does the intensity and weirdness of our climate system. This is what you need to know.
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![Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, CA](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/07/My-project-2023-07-07T162848.025.jpg?w=800)
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How energy from waves might simplify desalination
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Are ‘mother trees’ real?
![Beach-goers seeking relief from the heat at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach California, on July 1, 2023.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/05/beach-heatwave-california.jpg?w=800)
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July 3 may have marked the hottest day ever recorded
![Fast fashion might be making us sick](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/29/My-project-2023-06-29T112332.077.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Fast fashion might be making us sick
![How can we decarbonize copper and nickel mining?](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28/My-project-2023-06-28T171203.589.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
How can we decarbonize copper and nickel mining?
![Coastal flooding predictions triple](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/22/My-project-2023-06-22T122133.913.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Coastal flooding predictions triple
![Extreme heat to blanket Texas with ‘no end in sight’](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/22/My-project-2023-06-22T115750.931.jpg?w=800)
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Extreme heat to blanket Texas with ‘no end in sight’
![The 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 6 has an MPGe of 140.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/21/hyundai-ioniq-6-mpge.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
What an electric vehicle’s MPGe rating really means
![Why scientists want to banish barnacles from ship hulls](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20/My-project-2023-06-20T132855.431.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Why scientists want to banish barnacles from ship hulls
![People wearing masks for wildfire smoke and bad air quality in front of White House](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/12/masks-wildfire-smoke-bad-air-quality.jpg?w=677)
Climate Change
How to mask up to protect yourself from wildfire smoke
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Climate Change
This very sweaty robot measures how heat affects humans
![Mountains and a pine forest covered in wildfire smoke.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/26/Wildfire-Smoke-Air-Quality.jpeg?w=600)
Climate Change
What to do when wildfire smoke fills the air
![The Downtown Manhattan skyline stands shrouded in a reddish haze as a result of Canadian wildfires on June 6, 2023 in New York City. Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and Quebec resulting in air quality health alerts for the Adirondacks, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York, and Western New York.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/07/ManhattanWildfireSmokeJune2023.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Wildfire smoke is choking the eastern United States
![Visible satellite image of Super Typhoon Mawar on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. At the time, Mawar had sustained 1-minute winds of 155 mph.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/25/TyphoonMawarSatellite.png?w=800)
Climate Change
Guam hit by strongest ‘Super Typhoon’ in decades
![The lower Manhattan skyline at dusk.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/22/NYCskylineSinking.png?w=800)
Climate Change
NYC is sinking and climate change is only making it worse
![Fixing the ozone hole was a bigger deal than anyone realized](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/18/My-project-2023-05-18T123931.357.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Fixing the ozone hole was a bigger deal than anyone realized
![El Nino 2023 signs on NASA weather satellite data on higher Pacific Ocean temperatures and water levels, marked by red around the equator](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/19/el-nino-2023-weather-satellite.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
El Niño is back—here’s what that means
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