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Scientist suggest seeding the planet's oceans with more phytoplankton, organisms that are already responsible for producing 50 percent of the oxygen.
Global Warming

By Victor Tangermann

Humanity's selfishness has gotten Freya the globe-trotting walrus killed. She was euthanized after people wouldn't stop posing for pictures with the walrus.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Record-breaking drought in California is harming the tomato, likely causing ketchup price increases. Climate change will affect tomatoes long term.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

At least 50 people have died in Sudan because of severe seasonal flooding, and the worst may not be over. Ethopia's dam project may cause another flood.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Strip mining and the coal industry made flooding in Eastern Kentucky worse, former coal regulators said. They want an investigation. Nearly 40 people died.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A skid steer with a lawn mower hit an old oil pipeline in Tennessee and spilled 180,000 gallons of oil in the state's second largest spill.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

On Saturday, park rangers came across yet another set of human remains in Lake Mead. This is the fourth discovery of the like since May.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking new study found that over half of all human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by greenhouse gas driven climate change.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Amazing News! The Great Barrier Reef Just Made a Massive Comeback
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost every sea turtle being born in Florida is a girl because of increasing sand temperatures due to climate change. Turtle populations are in danger.
Global Warming

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An ice sheet the size of the United States is under threat of melting as warmer waters are driven towards it, new research finds.
Global Warming

By Frank Landymore

Modern climate change will likely take place over a shorter period of time than previous extinction events, leaving species with far less time to adapt.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New images show just how drastic the Great Salt Lake's decline has been — and where the resulting clouds of dangerous dust could fall.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Heat wave Zoe was so bad that Seville, Spain decided to create its own naming and rating system for heat waves and gave it the highest score.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Taylor Swift and her private jet are the world's worst celeb CO2 emission offenders according to a new report, which the internet freaked out about.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has thrown some weight behind an air conditioning startup Blue Frontier to help stop climate change.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The only Gorgosaurus skeleton that's ever been made available for private ownership sold at auction for more than $6 million yesterday.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Western US is in the worst drought in 1,200 years. Lawns suck up previous water resources, but not every resident is on board with cutbacks.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Twitter user said three of his Samsung phones popped open and appear to have battery problems caused by heat and climate change.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Several NGOs have co-signed a letter to Telsa and Elon Musk, begging the founder to avoid investing in Indonesia's nickel mining industry.
Environment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's pretty difficult to justify opting for a 17-minute trip on a private jet over a 45-minute car ride — but that's exactly what Kylie Jenner just did.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Land Life, a company that offers carbon offsets to polluting industries through planting trees, has accidentally started a massive forest fire in Spain.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK — which has announced a "red warning" for extreme heat — weapped London's 135-year-old Hammersmith Bridge silver foil to keep it from cracking.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate-change-driven heat waves spell disaster for the UK as the country buckles under its hottest night and day ever, back to back.
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Over the weekend, one of the famed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US as part of a summer storm system.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Europe is being gripped by a devastating heat wave, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes — and killing over a thousand more.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Living Carbon has gone back to carbon capture's literal roots, but with a twist: they've created genetically-modified, fast-growing trees.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking new video shows a massive tidal wave sweep over the top of a two-story condo in Keauhou, Hawaii, amid a "historic" ocean surf.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Things are getting steamy in England — quite literally, in the case of one Royal Air Force base where it got so hot, the runway actually melted.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid heatwaves, drought, and floods, UN Secretary General António Guterres told state ministers that "no nation is immune" from the climate change crisis.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

English officials say thousands of peoeple could die in this week's heatwave. Temperatures could hit 104 degrees and caused a emergency heat red alert.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Experts are worried that Texas' state's power plants won't be able to keep up with energy demands as temperatures soar and plants run full steam.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While a Texas weatherman was warning that the ongoing heat wave might cause widespread blackouts, the news studio's power suddenly went out.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of ten tourists miraculously survived a massive avalanche while exploring Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains — and one of them got it on video.
Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."
Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

A single snake found its way into the Tohoku Electric Power station in Japan and caused an outage that lasted an hour for 10,000 homes on Wednesday.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Colorado researchers say 44 wildfire events were caused by electrocuted birds in the US between 2014 and 2018. Birds catch fire and fall to the ground.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NEWBrew hit the shelves in April this year and is made from recycled and treated sewage water. NEWBrew makes toilet water beer from Singapore's own NEWater.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Germany is creating a giant thermos to heat homes in the winter in order to stall climate change and secure energy independence from Russia during war.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Supreme Court has given power plants the ability to regulate their own carbon dioxide emissions, a decision that could have disastrous consequences.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.
Environment

By Frank Landymore

A Kenyan engineer Nzambi Matee has come up with a way to upcycle plastic trash — by pressing it with the addition of sand into usable bricks.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

A stranded oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could make the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill look like child's play. It stores 1 million gallons of oil.
Pollution

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other polar bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said in a new study.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cattle are dying by the thousands because of an intense heat wave. The The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed at least 2,000 dead cattle.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.
Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Microplastics have reached some of the most remote parts of Antarctica, one of the last natural strongholds against human development.
Pollution

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate change is causing Utah's Great Salt Lake to continue to shrink, paving the way for an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Good news, everyone! Climate change is now CANCELED thanks to an ingenious plot to put trees on the blockchain, because that's how the environment works.
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

The archipelago nation of Seychelles says industrialized and Western nations aren't following through on climate change and climate aid promises.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two robotic buoys will relay location info on North Atlantic right whales back to shore so mariners and the public can help save the endangered species.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The first electric Ford F-150 Lightning was delivered to a retail customer today in the automaker's home state of Michigan. Ford CEO Jim Farley celebrated.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Good Meat announced it'll build ten 250,000-liter bioreactors that it claims could make 30 million pounds of lab grown, no kill meat in the US.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An ex-oil consultant had harsh words for her former employer after leaving the company over its plans to expand fossil fuel extraction.
Environment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Explorerers in China found a massive sinkhole that has an entire ancient forest inside. It could hold species previously not discovered.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A report says scientists discovered tiny rock fragments believed to be from the day an asteroid struck Earth 66 mllion years ago and killed the dinosaurs.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two homes in North Carolina collapsed into the ocean. The most recent house was on stilts. Local park service captured video of the moment.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lake Mead in Nevada, just oustide Las Vegas, is at record lows because of draught, revealing two bodies within day. One was found in a barrel.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla's Elon Musk tried to finish the ElonJet tracker Twitter account but got ratted out yesterday for a 9-minute private jet flight in California.
Environment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crew aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus discvered a "yellow brick road" that looks it leads to Atlantis. Climage change may affect future ocean studies.
Climate Change

By Lonnie Lee Hood