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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

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists disagree when the Thwaites or Doomsday Glacier will fully melt, but they are starting to weigh up large scale interventions.

Scientists Consider Drastic Action as Doomsday Glacier Threatens to Flood Entire Islands and Coasts

By Frank Landymore

A secret recording obtained by the BBC shows the organizer of this year's COP29 climate change conference trying to strike a fossil fuel deal.

Secret Video Shows Top Climate Change Conference Official Promising to Facilitate Fossil Fuel Deals

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back environmental protection, while boosting fossil fuels. Meanwhile, 48 out of 50 states face droughts.

As Trump Prepares to Slash Environmental Protections, 48 of the 50 States Are Facing Droughts

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called SpiralWave has created a device that uses plasma pulls to turn atmospheric CO2 into green methanol.

Bizarre Device Sucks CO2 From Atmosphere and Turns It Back Into Fuel

By Frank Landymore

For the first time in recorded history, Mount Fuji has gone the entire month of October without seeing any snow.

Mount Fuji Snowless For Longest Time In 130 Years

By Frank Landymore

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.

Congratulations, Buffoons! We Did More Global Warming Last Year Than in Any Other Year in Human History

By Noor Al-Sibai

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a breaking point.

Plants and Forests Absorbed Almost No Carbon Last Year, Shocking Climate Scientists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about climate change.

A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new analysis released by the World Wildlife Fund paints an extremely alarming picture of the decimation of wildlife populations.

Wildlife Populations Have Shrunk a Shocking Amount in Just 50 Years, Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

Parts of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco experienced a surprise deluge of heavy rains last month, leaving behind lake-filled oases.

Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Hurricane Milton batters Florida, it's becoming increasingly clear that climate change is making monsters out of extreme storms.

Make No Mistake: Climate Change Turned Hurricane Milton Into a “Monster”

By Noor Al-Sibai

25 out of 35 of the planet's "vital signs" are at the worst levels ever recorded, according to an annual climate change report.

Scientists Just Took the Earth’s “Vital Signs.” They Hated What They Saw.

By Frank Landymore

Satellite imagery shows the might of powerful Hurricane Milton, which is due to make landfall in Florida's western coast this afternoon.

Hurricane Milton Is so Insanely Powerful, It’s Literally Just a Giant Red Smudge on Meteorological Maps

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The world's rivers are drying up at rates faster than ever before thanks to climate change — and last year was the world on record.

Climate Change Is Drying Up All the World’s Rivers at an Alarming Rate

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the simulations, aliens keep dying from climate change because of the heat produced by energy demands, even if they rely on renewables.

Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Some Silicon Valley tech bros are being paid to ride along California's coast in a Winnebago releasing balloons of sulfur dioxide.

Tech Bros Releasing Climate-Hacking Chemicals From “Stealth” RV

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate.

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai