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A key question for climate scientists in recent years has been whether the Atlantic Ocean’s main circulation system is slowing down, a development that could have dramatic consequences for Europe and other parts of the Atlantic rim.

More accurate detection of hotspot clusters provides new insights into the behavior of air pollution.

Valley fever is endemic to hot and dry regions like the southwestern United States and California’s San Joaquin Valley, but a new study predicts climate change will cause the fungal infection’s range to more than double in size this century, reaching previously unaffected areas across the western U.S.

USC researchers have discovered that corals can pass on their reshuffled symbiotic algae, which may help their progeny withstand climate change.

University of Arizona researchers, in conjunction with an international team, are hoping to learn how a hotter, drier future will alter tropical rain forest ecosystems.