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The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

New research is warning that the most likely outcome is that human civilization is poised for collapse. As The Guardian reports, a sweeping new historical survey that analyzes 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies makes the case that we're in for a rude awakening.

New research indicates that more than a fifth of the global ocean has darkened over the past two decades, with the depths that sunlight can penetrate significantly retreating. This "reduces the amount of ocean available for animals that rely on the Sun and the Moon for their survival and reproduction," said study author Thomas Davies, associate professor of marine conservation at the University of Plymouth, in a statement about the work.

blue whale vocalizations dropped by almost 40 percent, according to the study, with populations of krill and anchovy collapsing. "When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving," Ryan explained. "They were spending all their time just trying to find food."

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Le traité sur la Haute Mer peine à entrer en vigueur. Pourtant, des scientifiques de renom alertent aujourd’hui : les écosystèmes marins n’attendront pas. Sans une action immédiate, c’est la vie sur notre Terre qui pourrait être menacée.

Sur les hauteurs de Chamonix (Haute-Savoie), la Mer de glace devrait perdre encore au moins 80% de son volume d’ici la fin du siècle. Symbole de l’accélération du réchauffement climatique, la probable disparition de ce glacier historique bouleverse l’économie locale, et notamment le tourisme.

Le changement climatique causé par la combustion des énergies fossiles a rendu la récente vague de chaleur dans l’ouest de l’Europe jusqu’à 4 °C plus chaude dans de nombreuses villes, exposant des milliers de personnes vulnérables à un stress thermique dangereux, selon une "étude rapide" publiée mercredi.

Le combat contre le changement climatique nécessite des innovations audacieuses. Parmi elles, des chercheurs suisses viennent de franchir un pas spectaculaire avec la création d’un matériau « vivant » capable de capturer le dioxyde de carbone directement dans l’atmosphère, grâce à un ingrédient naturel surprenant : les cyanobactéries, ou algues bleu-vert. Ce matériau, fruit d’une collaboration à l’École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (ETH), ouvre la voie à des bâtiments capables non seulement de se renforcer, mais aussi de contribuer activement à la lutte contre le réchauffement planétaire.

Heatwaves can lead to considerable impacts on societal and natural systems. Accurate simulation of their response to warming is important for adaptation to potential climate futures. Here, we quantify changes of extreme temperatures worldwide over recent decades. We find an emergence of hotspots where the hottest temperatures are warming significantly faster than more moderate temperatures. In these regions, trends are largely underestimated in climate model simulations. Globally aggregated, we find that models struggle with both ends of the trend distribution, with positive trends being underestimated most, while moderate trends are well reproduced. Our findings highlight the need to better understand and model extreme heat and to rapidly mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to avoid further harm.