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Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

By Sharon Adarlo

A video that's gone viral on social media shows a miniature deer fiercely standing its ground and charging at a far more massive rhino.

Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros

By Victor Tangermann

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered that feeding mice with microplastics increases plaque buildup in the arteries of male mice.

Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes

By Sharon Adarlo

A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists from across the globe is now heading straight to the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica.

Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

A recent study paints a concerning picture of the potential collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, otherwise known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.

Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power

By Victor Tangermann

Some of Alaska's scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange color.

Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska

By Sharon Adarlo

A German energy company is building two enormous heat pumps that draw water from the Rhine to provide an appreciable 40,000 homes with heat.

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

By Victor Tangermann

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

By Victor Tangermann

A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

A Fox Business host railed against a humble little tree farm that's standing in the way of more AI data center construction.

Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

By Frank Landymore

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists discovered an undersea wall that measures almost 400 feet in length, the biggest underwater construction ever found in France.

Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure

By Victor Tangermann

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

By Victor Tangermann

The dome around the Chernobyl site "had lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability" after a drone strike.

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation

By Victor Tangermann

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the surface of the ice.

This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild

By Victor Tangermann

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

A Campbell Soup executive made explosive comments during a rant, saying he didn't want to eat "bioengineered meat" and 3D-printed chicken.

In Leaked Audio, Campbell’s Soup Exec Rants About “Bioengineered” Meat That “Came From a 3D Printer”

By Victor Tangermann

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

A diver discovered the heinous piece of vandalism on a magnificent colony of plate coral, and not for the first time.

Officials Outraged by Coral Reef Vandalized With Underwater Graffiti

Residents in three Australian states will be receiving at least three hours of free solar power a day, even if they don't own solar panels.

Australia Now Has So Much Solar Power That It’s Giving Electricity Out for Free

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's brilliant plan for saving us from climate change involves a little help from a swarm of friendly AI satellites.

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

By Frank Landymore

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet

By Victor Tangermann

A woman in her 60s is angry that her Virginia home is surrounded by data centers, which are noisy and belch out pollution.

Woman Aghast as 14 Data Centers Move Next Door, Emits Terrible Stench

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers studying stray dogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, spotted at least three dogs that had turned blue. They may know why.

Stray Dogs in Chernobyl Zone Turn Mildly Blue

By Victor Tangermann

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

By Frank Landymore

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

By Victor Tangermann

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Geoengineering startup Stardust Solutions says it has raised $60 million to lay the groundwork for tech that could be used to dim the Sun.

Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet

By Victor Tangermann

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new data shows.

Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly

By Victor Tangermann

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

British conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.

Jane Goodall Recorded a Message About Elon Musk Before Her Death

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that microplastics are inhibiting the ability of yours bones to properly grow and regenerate.

Doctors Find Evidence That Microplastics Are Degrading Your Bones

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers in the US are spiking nearby customers electricity bills and bringing other unexpected costs.

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth's surface 18 years ago, as spotted by NASA satellites.

Scientists Say They Detected Something Huge Shifting Inside the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are scrambling to explain a rise in jellyfish blooms in the last place you'd expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America.

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

By Victor Tangermann

First theorized in 1963 by a Polish SciFi author, smart dust is now a real life technology with major implications.

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

Joe Rogan has once again botched a scientific study — and one of its authors is challenging him to learn how to read.

Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pods of killer whales are once again attacking boats along the coast of Spain, striking fear into the hearts of local sailors.

Boat-Attacking Orcas Are Back for Vengeance

By Victor Tangermann

New survey data shows a pervasive culture of sexual harassment and violence on US research bases staffed by third party contractors.

Horrible Things Are Happening at Antarctic Facilities

Scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. They went to have a look.

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

By Victor Tangermann

The continents are drying so rapidly that they're now contributing more to rising sea levels than melting ice sheets do.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover That Earth’s Continents Are Drying Out

By Frank Landymore

New climate research suggests the Antarctic sea is experiencing rapid disruptions that could represent a global climate "tipping point."

The Climate Is Officially Getting So Bad That It’s Unrecoverable

By Frank Landymore

When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.

Scientists Find Evidence That You’re a Hypocrite Who’s Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Amazon rainforest can become a distant memory because it's at the brink of a tipping point that could transform it for the worse.

Climate Change Has Driven the Amazon Rainforest to the Edge of a “Tipping Point”

By Sharon Adarlo

Parts of Alaska's state capital, Juneau, were flooded this week, caused by a nearby melting glacier, according to The Guardian.

Melting Glacier in Alaska Floods State Capital

By Sharon Adarlo

The executive order drastically deregulates key areas of the commercial spaceflight industry, in a major with for companies like SpaceX.

Trump Rips Up Environmental Rules Protecting Wildlife From Destructive Rocket Launches

By Frank Landymore

Scientists were caught by surprise after discovering a massive flood of subglacial lakewater had burst through Greenland's ice sheet.

Scientists Alarmed as Floodwater Punches Through Greenland’s Ice Sheet

By Victor Tangermann

Google has used its Android smartphones to detect earthquakes for years — and now, the company is admitting to a massive misstep.

Google Has Quietly Been Detecting Earthquakes by Sensing Rumbling in Android Phones For Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

Levels of the chemical byproduct TFA have multiplied rapidly over the past few years, as researchers scramble to catch up.

Almost All Rain Drops Contain the Same Weird Chemical

An aborted geoengineering experiment was meant to set the stage for a much larger cloud-seeding experiment, covering 3,900 square miles.

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants, due to rising sea levels.

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of massive wildfires in Canada's Manitoba province, people thousands of miles away are being warned to stay indoors.

Millions Of Americans Are Being Advised Not To Go Outside

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new documentary and track showcase the tragic sounds of a dying, "crying" glacier in the Swiss Alps as it rapidly shrinks.

The Sounds of a Dying Glacier Might Make You Cry

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video making the rounds on social media shows beachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous, tsunami-like cloud rolling in.

Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave

By Victor Tangermann

In large swaths of these United States, people are already dying from this summer's brutal and dangerous heat wave.

People Are Already Dropping Dead as Extreme Heat Scorches the US

By Noor Al-Sibai

A heatwave is blanketing vast swaths of America, sending temperatures skyrocketing to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Extreme Heat Is Killing Unfathomable Numbers of People Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo