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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

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

Scientists May Be Able to Fight Global Warming by Supercharging Plankton

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.

Freya the Boat-Climbing Walrus Euthanized Because of Stupid Humans

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.

Ketchup and Pasta Sauce Might Get Pricey Because of 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.

At Least 50 Dead in Seasonal Sudan Flooding

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.

Strip Mining Made KY Flooding Worse, Experts Say

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.

Lawn Mower Hits Old Pipeline, Spills 180,000 Gallons of Oil

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.

Rangers Keep Discovering Human Remains in Drying Up Lake

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.

Study: Climate Change Making More Than Half of Infectious Diseases Far Worse

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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.

Almost Every Turtle Being Born Female Due to 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.

World’s Biggest Ice Sheet in Antarctica in Serious Trouble Due to 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.

Scientists Warn of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused by 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.

Shocking New Images Show Major US Lake Drop To Lowest Recorded Water Levels

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.

Hooray! Heat Waves Are Now Bad Enough to Get Names

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.

Taylor Swift Didn’t Rack Up Wasteful Private Jet Miles Alone, Team Says

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.

Bill Gates Invests in Exciting Air Conditioning Startup

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.

Paleontologists Furious as Dinosaur Skeleton Sells at Private Auction

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.

An Evil Force Is Sucking the Life Out of California: Lawns

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.

Tech Reviewer Says Heatwave Causing Samsung Batteries to Burst Out of Phones

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.

Environmental Groups Horrified by New Tesla Plan

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.

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

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.

Kardashian Slammed for 17-Minute Private Jet Flight to Beat Traffic

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.

Company Providing Carbon Offsets Accidentally Sets Large Forest Fire

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.

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

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.

London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

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.

UK Has Hottest Night in Recorded History, Then Hottest Day in Recorded History

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.

Blessed Weather Pattern Looks Exactly Like a Ninja Turtle

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.

Over a Thousand Die in European “Heat Apocalypse”

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.

Startup Says It’s Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2

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.

Shocking Video Shows Massive Tidal Wave Crash Over a 2-Story Condo

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.

UK Shuts Down Air Force Base When It Got So Hot the Runway Melted

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.

Head of UN Says Humanity Is Facing “Collective Suicide”

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.

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

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.

Experts Concerned Texas Power Plants Will Start to Die Amid Heat Wave

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.

Studio Power Goes Out While Weatherman Warns About Rolling Blackouts

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.

Terrifying Video Shows Cameraperson Get Buried by Giant Avalanche

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."

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

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.

Unfortunate Snake Causes Power Outage for 10,000 Homes

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.

Experts Say Birds Are Catching on Fire on Power Lines and Starting Wildfires

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.

Happy BBQ Season! There’s Beer Made From Toilet Water Now

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.

Germany Builds Colossal “Thermos” to Heat Countless Homes

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.

Supreme Court Gives Power Plants Green Light to Pollute As Much As They Want

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.

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

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.

Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks

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.

Stranded Oil Tanker That Could Start Leaking Any Time Now, Experts Warn

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.

Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland

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.

Thousands of Cattle Die From Intense Heat in US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

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

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.

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight 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.

Scientists Discover “Superworms” That Can Survive on Eating Just Styrofoam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Even Antarctica Isn’t Safe From Microplastics, Researchers Confirm

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.

Experts Warn of Toxic Arsenic Clouds as Great Salt Lake Dries Up

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.

The Environment Is Saved! We’re Putting Trees on the Blockchain

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.

Archipelagic Nation Sick of Other Countries Breaking Climate Change Promises

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.

Marine Scientists Deploy Whale-Monitoring Robots to Save Endangered Species

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.

Deliveries of All-Electric Ford F-150 Lightning Officially Begin

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.

Huge Facility to Produce 15,000 Tons of Lab Grown Meat Per Year in the US

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.

Fossil Fuel Consultant Quits In Disgust, Tired of Destroying 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.

Scientists Discover Ancient Forest at Bottom of Gigantic Sinkhole

By Lonnie Lee Hood