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An unexpectedly large hole in the ozone layer formed over the Arctic because of an unusually cold winter and an extreme polar vortex.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

To get consumers to change their attitudes toward fossil fuels, experts suggest covering gas pumps with the same warnings we see on cigarettes.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to suspend its enforcement of environmental laws indefinitely in light of the ongoing pandemic.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

The Great Barrier Reef just suffered its third mass coral bleaching event in three years, forcing authorities to make grim predictions for its future.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new paper, electric cars are, in fact, better for the world, despite the environmental cost involved in making them.
Environment

By Foster Kamer

Astronomers discovered an exoplanet called WASP-76b with an extreme atmosphere: iron is vaporized in the day and rains back down at night.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

An environmental group filed a lawsuit last week against big plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much plastic is being recycled.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Prominent investment bank JP Morgan Chase has sent a report to clients warning that climate change could have cataclysmic effects on civilization.
Environment

By Jon Christian

Touring musicians have a large carbon footprint, the New Yorker writes, so eco-conscious bands are working to lower their environmental impact.
Environment

By Natalie Coleman

All coral reefs across the planet will likely be dead in 80 years — killed by a combination of warming waters and ocean acidification.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

Human composting is becoming more popular, and according to the BBC, it may be a better choice for the environment as well.
Environment

By Jacob Banas

If investors and business leaders, especially those in the energy sector, continue to ignore climate change, they might tank the economy.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In an Instagram post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he is dedicating $10 billion of his net worth to combat climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency releaed a troubling time-lapse video showing a gigantic iceberg splitting off of Antarctica and drifting away.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Several climate change simulations predict drastically worse warming per level of greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting the problem is worse than thought.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Rand Paul's bizarre tweet suggests that we're not creating climate change on Earth, but perhaps we should be on Mars or some exoplanet.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The blob, a patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, caused the deaths of an estimated one million seabirds, according to a new study.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Vanderbilt University law student Ramon Ryan argues in a new paper that the FCC's approval of over 30,000 planned SpaceX satellites could've been unlawful.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Even tardigrades — one of the most resilient creatures in the known universe — might not be able to survive global warming, according to a new study.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers confirmed that climate change is indeed making wildfires worse after analyzing 57 peer-reviewed papers published since 2013.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

While the massive Australian fires were often treated as a local story, they could have massive, far-reaching effects on the global environment and climate.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Ao Air has announced a $350 face mask called the Atmos Faceware, a gadget that promises to protect its wearer against dangerous air pollution.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced the Earthshot Prize, an initiative designed to solve Earth's greatest environmental problems before 2030.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

It's becoming increasingly likely that Japan's decision will be to dump the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima power plant into the ocean.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

During Thursday's debate, Bernie Sanders suggested cutting the military's bloated budget and putting it towards a more important fight: climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Ocean acidification is literally eating away at sharks' skin, destroying the layer of tiny scales that helps them swim and hunt.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The internet has a shockingly large environmental impact, and data centers are giving off an increasing amount of carbon emissions. Something has to give.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

If companies are given free rein to scrape the ocean floor for precious minerals, entire undiscovered ecosystems will be snuffed out.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that extreme weather events have been linked, almost without fail, to the worsening effects of climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

TIME magazine has chosen 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year for launching a global movement.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

The World Wildlife Fund published a report arguing that if we want to stop the worst impacts of climate change, world leaders need to take stronger action.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Elizabeth Warren just announced a package of environmental protection policies focused on the ocean that she's calling the Blue New Deal.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new U.N. climate report details how many countries have totally failed to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and argues that dire action is needed.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new report found that whales are incredibly adept at absorbing carbon dioxide, meaning their preservation should be a top climate priority.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Companies in India like Oxy Pure are selling customers access to pure oxygen as the area's air pollution becomes increasingly dangerous.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

A nuclear tomb full of radioactive material is at risk of busting open as climate change causes both sea levels and temperatures to rise.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it does not contain much good news.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A free-to-play video game like Oregon Trail called "Climate Trail" imagines an apocalyptic world in which we failed to fight climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A team of MIT engineers claims to have built a carbon capture system that could remove carbon dioxide from the environment at an industrial scale.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Population control wouldn't solve climate change, several experts recently told CBC News, as it doesn't address a number of other contributing factors.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Temperatures are so high in Qatar, the nation has begun air conditioning its open-air sports stadiums, malls, and markets.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

MIT scientist Andrew McAfee argues that capitalism can prevent food and commodity shortages even in the face of worsened climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New data reveals that hospitals in the United Kingdom treat more patients for heart attacks and strokes on days with worse air pollution.
Pollution

By Kristin Houser

In an unusual stunt, former Paralympian and bronze medal winner James Brown glued himself to the top of a British Airways plane at a London airport.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado State University have found "strong links" between air pollution exposure and "aggressive behavior."
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

To Our Readers: Why Futurism Isn’t Publishing Today
Climate Change

By Foster Kamer

Eastern Australia is approaching Day Zero. Some towns have already run out of water, and several more probably will before the year's end.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Oxford Physicist: Geogineering Away Climate Change Won’t Work
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government has suggested it may dump contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean, but experts say it's too dangerous.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

People from the Russian town Kiselyovsk want to gain entry to Canada as environmental refugees. Coal mining operations in their town have made it unlivable.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A Swedish scientist has suggested humans might need to turn to cannibalism to survive food shortages brought about by climate change.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

With the Amazon Rainforest burning away and sequestered carbon being released, the global environment is rapidly approaching the point of no return.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Microplastic has been found in rainwater samples in the Rocky Mountains, suggesting that plastic pollution has spread much farther than expected.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

#globalwarning videos on Tik Tok show people slowly melting in the heat as global climate change gets worse and worse around them.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

To address melting Arctic ice, a team of Indonesia designers proposes building and deploying submarines that could simply make more ice.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

If global temperatures reach two degrees Celsius about pre-industrial levels, 30,000 additional people will die in Chinese cities every year.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Andrew Yang says it's too late to stop some of the effects of climate change, and we should all migrate uphill to avoid floods.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found evidence that decade-long "megadroughts" devastated native societies in the Southwest. And another megadrought is on the way.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, global warming in the 20th century happened more quickly and pervasively than at any other time in the past 2,000 years.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests that C. auris evolved the ability to infect and kill humans thanks to climate change, specifically rising global temperatures.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser