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The company behind Funko Pop! collectibles, vastly over-estimated demand and is dumping $30 million worth of figurines in a landfill, Kotaku reports.

They’re Dumping $30 Million of Funko Pops Directly Into a Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast.

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

By Noor Al-Sibai

EPA chief Michael Regan was supposed to assure residents that the tap water was safe by drinking it, but the gesture has only incurred further scrutiny.

Wait, Did Officials Just Pretend to Drink the Tap Water in East Palestine?

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire philanthropist (and unfortunate right-wing target) George Soros has come out in support of geoengineering, an experimental Sun-dimming tech.

George Soros Comes Out in Support of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

By Victor Tangermann

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

By Victor Tangermann

While it offers an intriguing potential fix for climate change, some experts say geoengineering is more risk than it's worth.

Experts Fear Grim Repercussions of Geoengineering the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Watch out, Big Tech: using a generative AI like ChatGPT to power a search engine uses way more computing power than before.

Turns Out Using ChatGPT In Search Engines Would Have a Grisly Environmental Footprint

By Frank Landymore

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.

Scientists Unveil Plan to Mount Cannons on the Moon to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire climate advocate Bill Gates will do whatever it takes to save the planet — as long as it doesn't mean giving up his private jet.

Bill Pledges to Keep Flying Private Jet While Speaking Out Against Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian deep sea mining firm The Metals Company has been accused by its own scientists of meddling with their data and dumping sediment into the ocean.

Scientists Alarmed by Video of Deep Sea Mining Company Spewing Waste Into Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Deaths caused by fungal infections have been on the rise since the 1970s, and fungi once limited to regions of the US are now spreading to most states.

Global Warming Is Priming Deadly Fungi to Invade Our Warm Bodies

By Frank Landymore

The global warming threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius may be a foregone conclusion, according to a new study that trained an AI on climate models.

Global Warming Is Worse Than We Thought, AI Tells Scientists

By Frank Landymore

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

By Frank Landymore

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a damning new paper, researchers have found that scientists employed by Exxon were shockingly accurate in their predictions of global warming.

Exxon Scientists Knew About Global Warming for Decades While Company Denied It

By Victor Tangermann

An environmental startup called Make Sunsets has started injecting sulfur dioxide particles into the stratosphere in an effort to cool the planet.

Startup Says It’s Started Releasing Chemical Into Atmosphere to Dim Sun

By Victor Tangermann

On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Environment officials in the UK were stunned after an entire river turned snow white in the south of England, the BBC reports.

Residents Alarmed When Entire River Turns White

By Victor Tangermann

The idea of "solar geoengineering," or shooting particles into the stratosphere to reduce the warming of the Sun, is no longer science fiction.

Scientists Increasingly Calling to Dim the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Humans have known about climate change for decades. So why are we choosing to destroy our planet — and with it, ourselves?

Professors Warn of “Horrifying” Self-Destruction of Human Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers strapped cameras to tiger sharks and discovered a massive underwater forest of seagrass stretching 35,000 square miles across the seabed.

Scientists Strap Cameras to Sharks and Discover Huge Underwater Forest

By Victor Tangermann

The UN's upcoming COP27 climate conference in Egypt is basically a "greenwashing" waste of time, according to Greta Thunberg, who says she won't be going.

Greta Thunberg Says UN Climate Conference Is a Scam and She’s Not Attending

By Frank Landymore

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a scathing new Greenpeace USA report, only five percent of plastic waste generated by US households — a shockingly low number.

A Shocking Amount of US “Recycling” Goes Straight to the Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

Hurricane Ian has rendered Florida's once beautiful blue-green waters into a horrible brown sludge that "looks like root beer" and smells like "dead fish."

Hurricane Ian Turned Florida’s Water So Vile That It “Looks Like Root Beer”

By Frank Landymore

An elementary school in St. Louis had a rude awakening when scientists discovered grounds had "unacceptable" levels of radioactive contamination.

Radioactive Waste From Manhattan Project Found at Elementary School

By Frank Landymore

The White House has launched a five year research plan to investigate the possibility of reflecting sunlight to reduce warming and fight climate change.

White House Researching Combating Climate Change By Spraying Particles Into the Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

A shocking new video shows two climate activists throwing a can of soup at Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" painting at London's National Gallery.

Climate Activists Throw Soup at Famous Van Gogh Painting

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered that the saliva of wax worms can quickly break down polyethylene (PE), plastic that used in plastic bags.

Scientists Intrigued by Worms That Break Down Plastic Really Fast

By Victor Tangermann

On London's Waterloo bridge, a climate activist was filmed giving an interview while quite literally being toted away by police officers during a protest.

Climate Activist Conducts Interview While Being Carried Away by Police

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gender reveal parties have become notorious for their occasionally disastrous consequences. Polluting an entire river? Well, it's up there.

Gender Reveal Party Under Investigation for Polluting Entire River

By Frank Landymore

The Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea are going to be bad, and climate experts say the methane released pipelines from Russia may be sabotage.

Experts Say Leaking Russian Pipeline Likely Huge Environmental Disaster

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amid concerns about rising emissions, scientists have discovered something weird — that trees appear to be growing faster as carbon dioxide levels rise.

Carbon Dioxide Seems to Be Making Trees Grow Faster, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Experts are warning that if climate change continues to go unchecked, most of Florida's southern coast will be underwater, Miami included, by 2060.

Scientists Have Grim News for Southern Florida

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lululemon yoga company manufactures much of its expensive workout wear in coal-powered factories — and its stans are super ticked off about it.

Yoga Teachers Furious Over Lululemon’s Use of Environment-Destroying Factories

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Ethereum blockchain has finally completed its long-awaited "Merge," switching from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake system.

Ether Price Falls After “Merge” to Cut Its Environmental Toll

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis has determined that by current emissions, roughly 4.4 million acres of land and 650,000 individual properties will be underwater by 2050.

Hundreds of Thousands of American Homes Will Be Swallowed by the Sea, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Actor Jason Mamoa has taken to Instagram to ferociously protest single-use plastics by shaving his hair off. Is that effective activism?

Jason Momoa So Furious About Environment That He Shaved His Head

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last year, oil and gas pipeline Ku-Maloob-Zaap in the Gulf of Mexico said a gas leak set the ocean on fire. Now, it's leaking methane gas by the ton.

Last Year’s Ocean Portal to Hell Now Leaking Toxic Gas

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The arctic glacier that many believe could predict "doomsday" could start collapsing faster than expected — and if that happens, we're all screwed.

The Doomsday Glacier Is Hanging on “By Its Fingernails,” Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff described the kind of bunkers the super wealthy are building as they prepare for an apocalypse of some kind.

Don’t Panic, But the Super Wealthy Are Quietly Building Doomsday Bunkers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Overwhelming Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Isn’t What You Think

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A chief engineer and national from Russia was sentenced to a year and one day in jail for purposefully dumping waste water with oil off the US coast.

Man Headed to Prison for Dumping Toxic Pollution Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nearly 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi don't have clean drinking water. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration for Jackson.

The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Samsung worked with Bill Gates to invent a new kind of toilet that recycles and cleans waste and is better for the environment.

Bill Gates’ New Toilet Sets Your Poop on Fire

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Pakistan's climate change minister says one-third of the country is underwater following summer flooding. At least 1,100 died in the Pakistan flood.

Pakistani Official Says a Third of the Country Is Underwater in “Apocalyptic” Flood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Drought-stricken California soil has, over the course of several years, been slowly releasing a meningitis-causing fungus into the air.

Climate Change Releasing Horrid Disease-Causing Fungus from California Soil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK's Environmental Agency announced that Britons may soon be drinking sewage water to counter the region's worsening environmental circumstances.

UK May Have to Make Peace With Drinking Water Made From Sewage, Official Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twelve homes in a resettlement community for climate change survivors opened their doors to new owners this week in New Isle, Louisiana.

Louisiana Opens First Climate Change Resettlement Community

By Lonnie Lee Hood

As water levels dip dangerously low, dry river and lake beds reveal long-forgotten and hidden objects the rest of the world was never meant to see.

The Top 13 Wildest Objects That Terrible Droughts Have Revealed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new fossil found in a man's backyard may be the biggest ever discovered in Europe. The Late Jurassic sauropod is 82 feet long and nearly 40 feet tall.

Man Discovers 82-Foot Dinosaur Skeleton in Backyard

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More than 900 people are dead and 50,000 more are homeless in Pakistan following record-breaking amounts of rain. Flooding has also impacted crops.

At Least 900 Dead, 50K Homeless in Pakistan After Summer Floods

By Lonnie Lee Hood

North Carolina drivers who own a Ford Lightning F-150 may get paid to provide power to the local energy grid. It could prevent grid failures.

Ford F-150 Lightning Drivers Who Boost the Power Grid Might Get Paid in North Carolina

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Companies in the shipping industry are using cargo sail boats because of delays and the cost of fossil fuel. Shipping via sail boat is more eco-friendly.

Several Companies Are Switching From Cargo Vessels to Wooden Sailing Ships

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China's worst-ever drought in history caused the country to begin cloud seeding, using silver iodide rods to encourage rainfall.

China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Climate change makes bee wings more asymmetrical because they develop in difficult climate and environmental conditions, two new studies say.

Climate Change Is Deforming Our Precious Bees, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Lake Mead Swim Beach, a popular spot for beachgoers not far from Las Vegas, seems to be absolutely teeming with human remains.

They Keep Finding More Skeletal Remains at This Drying Up Lake

By Victor Tangermann

A top White House climate official has been sanctioned by the nation's largest academic organization over some pretty serious ethical violations.

White House Climate Scientist Sanctioned Over Paper Retraction

By Noor Al-Sibai

California has a history of megafloods occuring every one to two hundred years, and now scientists say the odds of one happening again are twice as likely.

Scientists Warn of Megaflood That Could Drown California

By Frank Landymore