A 1000-year archive preserved in fossil corals from the Galápagos offers some of the strongest evidence yet that global warming is already making El Niño stronger. DEEPS Professor and IBES Director Kim Cobb commented on this new research, saying “This system is the largest source of climate extremes on our planet,” Cobb says. “And if it is in itself becoming more extreme, that has some very serious implications for society, and it’s information that we should be acting on.”

A new peer-reviewed study published earlier this month in Earth’s Future suggests that it is possible to demonstrate that “emissions from company X cause injury Y.” IBES Director and DEEPS Professor Kim Cobb, an expert in observational climate studies, commented on this new study, saying we’re gaining something “extremely valuable” in Callahan’s study.