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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

AI models that are bigger in size compared to smaller models are estimated to use more energy, emit more carbon, and are more accurate.

Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

By Sharon Adarlo

New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.

Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

By Frank Landymore

Climate change is making everything about modern life worse — including the quality of the dairy that makes our cheese.

Climate Change Is Ruining Cheese, Scientists and Farmers Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the past two decades, vast swathes of the oceans have been darkening as sunlight penetrates at shallower depths than it once did.

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Carbon removal could help us stave off climate disaster. But if that's to happen, it's already billions of tons behind schedule.

The Carbon Removal Industry Is Already Lagging Behind Where It Needs to Be

By Frank Landymore

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.

Heartbreaking Video Shows Fish Fleeing Huge Nets

By Frank Landymore

A new study observes economic patterns related to climate change in order to find the staggering amount of emissions pumped out by the rich.

Scientists Just Found Who’s Causing Global Warming

When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted from climate change.

Antarctic Glacier Accused of “Ice Piracy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NOAA will stop updating its billion-dollar weather disaster database, as the agency faces grueling cuts under the Trump administration.

NOAA Will Stop Tracking Weather Disasters Because Trump Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

The UK will fund a bevy of solar geoengineering experiments to explore dimming the Sun as a way of combatting climate change.

Scientists Preparing Experiments to Dim the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Hoping to maximize's the ocean's potential as the world's largest carbon sink, scientists in the UK are sucking carbon out of seawater.

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

As the number of tourists in Antarctica skyrockets each year, so has their burden on the fragile polar ecosystem.

Hordes of Tourists Are Trashing Antarctica

Brooke Rollins issued an "Emergency Situation Determination" affecting over 112 million acres, or 59 percent of federal land.

Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment.

New Research Finds That Dogs Are Incredibly Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent financial reporting indicates that Wall Street's big dogs are all but giving up on climate change as global temperatures soar.

This May Be the Most Terrifying Sign of Global Warming Yet

In an Instagram video, second lady Usha Vance was spotted sitting in front of a shelf that featured a decidedly non-conservative book.

Usha Vance Posted a Video and People Spotted Something Absolutely Wild on a Shelf in the Background

By Noor Al-Sibai

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

By Victor Tangermann

Microplastic pollution seems, as one researcher posits, to be coming from a surprising source: chewing gum.

You May Be Horrified When You Learn What Chewing Gum Is Actually Made From

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Trump administration is massively rolling back environmental protection policies, accelerating an already heated race to the bottom.

Trump Changes EPA Rules to Allow Vastly More Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change

The Trump administration is now pulling funding for any research that even mentions the word "climate" in it.

Real Life Is Now “Don’t Look Up” as Trump Pulls Support for Any Research About the Climate

By Frank Landymore

Our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously predicted, scientists have found.

Glaciers Are Shrinking at an Incredible Rate

By Victor Tangermann

The explosion of a Starship rocket during its seventh orbital flight test may have released literal tons of harmful pollutants into the air.

Elon Musk’s Massive Rocket Explosion May Have Caused Significant Atmospheric Pollution

By Frank Landymore

Recent moves within the federal government have scrubbed all mention of climate change on critical agency websites.

Trump Admin Orders Deletion of Information About Climate Change From Government Websites

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.

Scientists Recover 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Two Miles Deep in Antarctica

By Frank Landymore

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.

While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have found that not just older adults are succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change.

Mexico Is Getting So Hot That Even Young People Are Dropping Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Government scientists are calling on the European Union to ban massive space mirrors and other forms of solar geoengineering.

Scientists Call for Ban on Hacking the Earth’s Climate With Chemicals or Giant Mirrors

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dancing with joy now that Donald Trump has promised him that he will no longer have to abide by environmental rules.

Elon Musk Gloats as Trump Announces Billionaires Will Be Exempt From Normal Environmental Rules

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station could have harmful environmental effects when it reenters the atmosphere and burns up.

Experts Worried That Destroying the Space Station Will Damage the Earth’s Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Weather-changing projects are taking place all over the world — and the United States is building a system to detect them all.

United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

While attending the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, a reporter decided to engage in the local custom of bathing his entire body in oil.

COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil

By Noor Al-Sibai