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The village of Fairbourne in Gwynedd, in North Wales, is going to be below sea level by 2054, but that isn't soaring housing and vacation rental prices.

House Prices Surge in Neighborhood Predicted to Be Swallowed by the Sea

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

Climate change and variability created a need for the first 100 percent fake manmade snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

All the Snow at the Beijing Winter Olympics Is Artificially Made

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Air conditioning needs will likely outpace the US's energy capacity because of climate change by the early 2030s according to a new study in Earth's Future.

Climate Change Air Conditioning Spike Will Cause Widespread Blackouts, Scientists Warn

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A bunch of animals are going extinct, but don't worry, you can buy NFTs of them!

Environmentalists Sell NFTs of Endangered Animals, Because We’re Condemned to Suffer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Climate researchers are warning extreme heat present in the Earth's oceans passed the point of return turn — eight years ago.

Environmental Catastrophe Passed “Point of No Return” Eight Years Ago, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

How does one hold the Winter Olympics when "winter" as we knew it is changing for the worse?

The Winter Olympics Have a Problem: They’re Being Ruined by Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Indonesia's government is leaving and moving the country’s capital of Jakarta to the island of Borneo due to sinking, pollution and congestion.

Indonesia Is Switching Capital Cities Because the Old One Is Sinking Into the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview

By Tony Ho Tran

Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner created mechanical trees to soak up carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.

Scientists Propose Creating Mechanical Trees to Suck Up Evil Carbon Dioxide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of more than 60 scientists and policy experts have signed an open letter calling on governments to ban solar geoengineering.

Scientists Say It Should Be Illegal to Fight Climate Change by Blocking Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study found that chemical pollution driven by plastics has gotten so bad that it might upend global ecosystems that support humanity.

Chemical Pollution Has Crossed a “Planetary Boundary” That Threatens Humanity, Study Says

By Tony Ho Tran

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

Satellite Images Show Island Where Volcano Erupted Almost Entirely Destroyed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After fifty years of continuous burning, Turkmenistan officials are finally trying to close up a 230-feet wide fiery sinkhole in the Karakum Desert.

Authorities Attempting to Close Fiery “Gates of Hell”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twenty elephants have died during the last eight years from eating plastic trash in the Pallakkadu village, with two more found dead this weekend.

Congratulations, Earth: Hungry Elephants Are Devouring Trash and Dying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One tour company owner in Lapland, the northernmost region in Finland, went viral after posting her reindeer-powered sled to avoid high gas prices.

Gas Prices So High in Finland One Woman Gets Around With Reindeer

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to a recent study, the globe's oceans experienced another record year in 2021 — "the hottest ever recorded by humans."

The Oceans Are Now Hotter Than at Any Point in Recorded History, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.

Guy Testing Life-Extending Gene Therapy on Himself Admits That Environmental Catastrophe May Pose Problem

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In Europe, tens of thousands of empty planes are being flown due to an air traffic rule — while needlessly polluting the skies.

In Disgusting Waste, Airlines Are Flying Thousands of Completely Empty Jetliners

By Noor Al-Sibai

The country of France passed a law in December that will require car companies to tell people not to drive in its commercials.

France Passes Law Requiring Car Ads to Tell People Not to Drive a Car

By Tony Ho Tran

A huge cargo ship will use a large kite to drag itself across the ocean in a test run next month in an effort to reduce carbon emissions the shipping industry emits each year.

Cargo Ship Will Get Dragged Through Ocean by Giant Kite

By Lonnie Lee Hood

As many as 30 feral hogs invaded a Texas neighborhood last week, damaging garden beds and yards. How should we deal with them?

Video Shows Dozens of Feral Hogs Invading Neighborhood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Record breaking, hurricane-force storms blew across the Midwest on Wednesday destroying homes and causing more than half a million power outages.

Hurricane-Like Storms That Raged in the Midwest Caused by Climate Change, FEMA Says

By Tony Ho Tran

A new study published in the journal Microbial Ecology found a growing number of bugs that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme.

Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Plastic Pollution, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

A new report including multiple scientists and researchers says that tornados like the one that killed dozens in Kentucky may be caused by climate change.

Tornadoes Like Kentucky’s May Be Getting Stronger Due to Climate Change, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of scientists say that the Amazon Rainforest is on the brink of collapse — and could transform into a dry savannah in just five years.

Amazon Rainforest on the Verge of Becoming a Dry Savannah, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Even when temperatures drop to 75 degrees Celsius below zero (-103 Fahrenheit), massive "zombie fires" continue to burn below parts of Siberia.

Underground “Zombie Fires” Continue to Burn Even at 74 Degrees Below Zero

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are building a massive, indestructible box that’ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.

Scientists Are Building a “Black Box” to Record the End of Civilization

By Tony Ho Tran

A new congressionally mandated report for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine paints an ugly picture of the amount of plastic waste the country produces.

The US Is Filling the Oceans With Shocking Amounts of Disgusting Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

A climate scientist believes that since geoengineering the earth to cool down the climate is so affordable, countries will inevitably start doing it.

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

60 people were trapped at the Tan Hill Inn with an Oasis cover band after a snowstorm dropped three feet of snow in Swaledale, England.

Extreme Snowstorm Traps 60 People in Pub with Oasis Cover Band

By Tony Ho Tran

The Arctic is getting warm, fast, and it has been for a long time.

The Arctic Ocean Has Been Warming Way Longer Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dumping the water into the bay as part of the decommission is an option the Cape Cod Times reported that officials discussed with Holtec earlier this week.

Massachusetts Residents Alarmed by Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While your relatives might not believe climate change isn't a big deal, we want to give you a handy guide to help possibly convince them otherwise.

How to Talk to Your Family About Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

By Noor Al-Sibai

Massive rain, dust, and snowstorms (yes, snow too) in Aswan, Egypt have caused swarms of scorpions to wreak havoc on the city.

Killer Storms Drive Deadly Scorpion Swarms Into Home-Invading Fury

By Tony Ho Tran

Spokesmen for the US and China announced a surprise climate agreement deal at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on Wednesday.

US and China Stop Bickering, Announce Surprise Climate Agreement Deal

By Tony Ho Tran

Even the food being served at this year's COP26, an event put on by the United Nations, had its own substantial carbon footprint.

Climate Conference Menu Mocked for Absurdly High Carbon Footprint

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is warning that climate change could start affecting the production of maize and wheat as soon as 2030.

NASA Warns That Climate Change Is About to Start Slashing Crop Yields

By Victor Tangermann

Environmentalist and futurist James Lovelock has long believed that the Earth self-regulates just like a living organism as part of his Gaia theory.

Famed Scientist Warns That Earth May Rise Up and Kill Humanity

By Victor Tangermann

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found that breathing polluted air might cause lowered sperm counts.

Air Pollution May Be Lowering Sperm Counts, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

The UN dropped two reports this week that send a clear message: nations simply aren’t doing enough to stop climate disaster.

United Nations Warns of “Endless Suffering” Due to Climate Disaster

By Tony Ho Tran

A giant hole has been discovered in an area of the Arctic known as the "Last Ice" — heating up concerns about the impacts of climate change in the region.

Researchers Discover Massive Hole in the Arctic’s “Last Ice”

By Tony Ho Tran

A Dutch inventor has helped create a device, dubbed "Jenny," that has collected nearly 20,000lbs of plastic from the Pacific Ocean.

Huge Machine Cleans Up Vast Load of Ocean Plastic

By Tony Ho Tran

Political candidate Scott Pio suggested on Twitter that sea levels may lower if we simply took all the boats out of the water.

Candidate Suggests Lowering Sea Levels by Taking “All the Boats Out of the Water”

By Dan Robitzski

China seems to be powering a massive array of intercontinental ballistic missile silos with a huge new wind farm, so at least it's environmentally friendly.

Rejoice! China Is Powering Ballistic Missile Silos With Environmentally-Friendly Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent astrophysicist Martin Rees criticizes global leadership for ignoring climate change, comparing them to frogs boiling in a pot.

Astrophysicist Warns That Humanity Will Boil Like a Frog in a Pot

By Dan Robitzski

The operators of the oil pipeline that spilled 144,000 gallons of crude oil off the coast of California waited for three hours before shutting it down.

Operators Let Oil Pipeline Gush Into Ocean for Hours Without Shutting It Off

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and launched criminal investigations into the cause of a horrific oil spill.

California Declares State of Emergency, Opens Criminal Investigation Over Horrific Oil Spill

By Dan Robitzski

About 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of a pipeline near Orange County, California, causing damage to the environment that could last for months.

Huge Oil Spill Strikes Off Coast of California

By Dan Robitzski

The icy "glue" that holds Antarctica's ice shelf together and fills in any cracks is melting away, leaving the entire shelf in a dire situation.

The Icy “Glue” Holding Antarctica Together Is Starting To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

Mining companies are planning to scrape up the materials necessary to build electric car batteries from the bottom of the ocean.

Corporations Are Sending Huge Mining Machines to the Bottom of the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

People peed so many party drugs into a local river at the 2019 Glastonbury music festival that the water became dangerous for local, protected eels.

Festival Goers Did So Many Drugs That Their Pee Harmed Local Fish

By Dan Robitzski

A massive dust storm struck Brazil on Sunday, with massive plumes of dirt appearing to engulf entire cities that were enduring a long-term drought.

Watch a Huge Dust Storm Swallow an Entire City

By Dan Robitzski

Alarming new research suggests that each generation will face a more climate change-ravaged planet than the one before it.

If You’re Under 40 You’re Gonna See Some Horrible Stuff, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists that developed climate projects for the year 2,500 is warning of an earth so different it's "alien to humans."

The Climate Projection for 500 Years From Now Is Unbelievably Bad

By Dan Robitzski

The tone at the first in-person United Nations since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was pretty "dire," the Associated Press reports.

Member Nations Alarmed by Bleak Future During “Dire” UN Meeting

By Victor Tangermann

As ice melts, the Earth's crust expands upward and outward in deformations that can span hundreds of miles and last thousands of years.

Harvard Study: Melting Polar Ice Is Physically Warping the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified alarming parallels between the conditions that led to a horrific mass extinction event and the impacts of modern-day climate change.

Scientists Alarmed by Telltale Sign of Global Mass Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists with the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service announced that the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica.

There’s a Hole in the Ozone Layer Bigger Than Antarctica, Scientists Sigh

By Tony Ho Tran

An international team of atmospheric scientists wants to create whiter clouds that reflect more sunlight to cool down the Earth.

Scientists Reveal Plan to Cool the World Through Geoengineering

By Tony Ho Tran

227 environmental and land rights activists were murdered throughout the world in 2020, according to the report from Global Witness.

A Huge Number of Environmental Activists Are Getting Murdered

By Tony Ho Tran

The world's largest carbon capture facility, which can scrub 4,400 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year, just went online.

Scientists Fire Up World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Machine

By Dan Robitzski