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British archaeologists have found microplastics amidst historic sediment excavated in York that date as early as the 1st and 2nd centuries.

Scientists Alarmed to Discover Microplastics in Ancient Archaeological Dig

By Sharon Adarlo

Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air.

Trees “Coughing” as They Fail to Capture Excess CO2

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that playing happy coral reef sounds through underwater speakers could allow sad coral reefs to come back to life.

Coral Reefs Coaxed Back to Life by Playing Happy Reef Sounds on Underwater Speakers

By Victor Tangermann

A community in Massachusetts spent half a million dollars on a sand dune to protect their lavish, coastal homes. It was swept away in 3 days.

$500,000 Sand Dune to Protect Vacation Homes Washes Away in Three Days

By Victor Tangermann

University College London geophysical and climate hazards professor Bill McGuire argues we should be absolutely terrified of climate change.

Scientist Terrified by How the Climate Is Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

To save the "doomsday" glacier, geoengineers propose surrounding it with giant underwater curtains to divert warm water away.

Scientists Propose Desperate Plan to Insulate Entire Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

The accused, 58-year-old Michael Hart of San Diego, is alleged to have illegally imported powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons.

Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases

By Frank Landymore

Scientists are worried that rising global temperatures could cause disposed nuclear waste, which dates back to the Cold War, to resurface.

Climate Change on Track to Unearth Buried Nuclear Waste, Officials Warn

By Victor Tangermann

A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet.

Government Scientists Propose Plan to Dry Out the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

As last year's record-breaking ocean temperatures cease to slow down, warming waters around the globe continue to alarm scientists.

Scientists Alarmed by Spike in Ocean Temperatures

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Large parts of the Amazon are nearing an irreversible “tipping point” and collapse due to deforestation and climate change, scientists warn.

Amazon Rainforest Set for Collapse, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers are testing out drastic, large-scale geoengineering methods that were once considered taboo in order to fight climate change.

Scientists Desperately Studying How to Hack Climate

By Sharon Adarlo

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could reach a tipping point and shutdown, rapidly cooling Europe and North America.

Scientists Say the Atlantic Current Appears to Be on the Verge of Collapse

By Frank Landymore

A landslide caused by the recent atmospheric river left three oceanside mansions in Southern California dangling off the edge of a cliff.

Luxury Homes Teetering Above Cliff After Landslide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists want to send a swarm of small umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways from reaching the Earth's surface.

Scientists Working on Plan to Cool Earth by Blocking Sun

By Victor Tangermann

These suddenly exploding craters in Siberia could be caused by a build up of hot gas and rising temperatures due to climate change.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth

By Frank Landymore

Countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain's northern coast after containers fell off a ship.

Millions of Plastic Pellets Wash Up on Shore

By Sharon Adarlo

America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at a scarily rapid pace, a new satellite imagery study shows.

Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

Many companies have recently rushed to invest billions into carbon removal technologies in order to mitigate emissions.

Billions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere

By Sharon Adarlo

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

The pound-for-pound greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is getting stronger as more of it is released into the atmosphere, a new study found.

Carbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in India killed off the dinosaurs by causing drops in global temperature.

Relatable! Scientists Say Dinosaurs Mainly Died From Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to cutting carbon emissions, but it has plans to push developing countries to use its oil and gas exports.

Saudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil

By Sharon Adarlo

Avocado bloody.

Millennials’ Avocado Habit Is Killing Mexico’s Forests

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study from Oxfam says the richest 1 percent of the world had the same carbon footprint in 2019 as the poorest 66 percent in the world.

Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Did you do climate change? If so, ExxonMobil's CEO is out to find you. And while he works on that, he thinks you should worry less about oil.

Exxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers in China discovered that microplastics could be affecting the formation of the clouds they're found in.

Microplastics Inside Clouds May Be Changing Global Weather, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Soot kills thousands of people every year. But as the EPA prepares to tighten soot restrictions, corporations are more worried about the GDP.

Corporations Whimper That They Won’t Be Able to Make So Much Money If They Aren’t Allowed to Pollute

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have now measured atmospheric mercury levels in the past, and their findings makes our current levels all the more concerning.

Humans Are Spiking the Level of Poisonous Mercury in the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Controversial new research led by renowned climate scientist James Hansen found that global warming is accelerating.

Global Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says

By Frank Landymore

More than 15,000 scientists have signed onto a paper warning that the climate may collapse by the end of this century if we don't fix it now.

15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

As Earth's temperatures continue to rise, some areas may soon become uninhabitable — and the consequences will be life or death.

Scientists Say Homes of Billions on Track to Become Uninhabitable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The results of a comprehensive survey of over 8,000 species of amphibians shows that 41 percent are globally threatened with extinction.

The Poor Little Froggos Are Going Extinct

By Frank Landymore

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

By Victor Tangermann

Even a cave that's been closed to the public for three decades can't escape the reach of microplastic particles.

Scientists Find Microplastics in Cave Sealed Off From All Humans

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Clouds

By Victor Tangermann

The world's land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant desert supercontinent.

Scientists Say Earth Will Become a Barren Wasteland

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night

Scientists Have Coined a Devastating New Term for Not Being Able to See the Stars at Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists found that solar geoengineering alone would have a limited impact on delaying the melting of ice in Antarctica.

It’s Too Late for Geoengineering Alone to Save Antarctica, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This year's Burning Man in the Nevada desert was marked by an extremely rare torrential rain. There's still a lot of trash to be picked up.

The Environmental Warriors at Burning Man Left a Disgusting Mess Behind

By Victor Tangermann

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, one of the more prominent architects of our planet's doom, says that humanity is likely to miss 2050 climate goals.

Exxon Mobil Predicts Climate Efforts Will Fail

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have estimated that approximately 1 billion people will die this century from various disasters driven by global warming.

The Death Toll From Climate Change Will Be Catastrophic, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a joint report from NASA and NOAA scientists, July may have just been the hottest month in recorded history.

July Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an unprecedented ruling, a state judge has sided with a group of youth climate activists who sued the state of Montana over fossil fuels.

The Kids Who Sued Montana Over Climate Change Just Won

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Department of Energy will invest $1.2 billion to build two direct air capture facilities that will remove carbon from the atmosphere.

White House Pledges $1.2 Billion to Suck Carbon Out of the Air

By Frank Landymore

This writer argues that, though flawed, the anti-plastic straw movement marks a rare, meaningful moment for the anti-plastic movement.

The Anti-Straw Movement Was Dumb, Annoying, and… Actually Worked?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At nearly 70 degrees, the ocean has hit its highest recorded temperature in history — and scientists say it's only likely to continue to rise.

Ocean Hits Highest Recorded Temperature, Still Rising

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The record shattering high temperatures has proven to be too much for even seasoned desert-dwelling saguaro cactuses.

It’s So Hot That Decades-Old Cactuses Are Toppling Over in Defeat

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.

Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are warning that crucial ocean currents called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation could collapse as soon as 2025.

Scientists Say Atlantic Current Collapse Could Lead to Extreme Cold in Europe and North America

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have successfully reanimated the bodies of 46,000-year-old microscopic roundworms they found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.

Scientists Resurrect 46,000 Year Old Worms, Which Instantly Started Reproducing

By Victor Tangermann

With this July on track to be the hottest month ever, the UN is warning that we've moved past global warming as the planet begins to boil.

UN Warns That We’ve Gone Beyond Global Warming and Into “Global Boiling”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

By Victor Tangermann

Climate change experts are watching, horrified that their predictions from many years ago are turning into an overwhelming reality.

Climate Scientists Horrified That Their Predictions Were Correct

By Victor Tangermann

Meet the "facekini," a ski mask of sorts made from UV-resistant fabrics and designed to cover a wearer's entire head and face.

There’s a Hot New Climate Change Accessory: “Facekinis” That Cover Your Entire Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study that tracked the ocean surface over two decades found that it's slowly getting greener, likely due to climate change.

Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That the Ocean Is Changing Color

By Frank Landymore

Thousands of abandoned telephone cables across the US are leaching lead into soil and water, a report from The Wall Street Journal reveals.

Old Phone Cables Appear to Be Contaminating US Soil and Water With Lead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A grim NOAA report reveals that Antarctic sea ice levels have reached a record wintertime low — and a drastic year-over-year decrease.

Antarctic Ice Reaches “Record-Smashing Low,” Alarming Scientists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During the first six months of President Lula's time in office, the area of deforested land in the Amazon has dropped by 33 percent.

Good News! Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Has Significantly Dropped in Just 6 Months

By Frank Landymore