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

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.
Pollution

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 Change

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.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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.
Pollution

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.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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 Change

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

World Leaders Mocked for Flying Private Jets to Climate Conference
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

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

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. 
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.  
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Environment

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

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

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.
Pollution

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

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

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."
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

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.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

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

By Tony Ho Tran

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

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.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The UN scientist who helped pen the dire report on climate change said that the impact of man made climate change is already being felt in ways unimagined.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Climate change is here, and it's posing a very real threat. If you want proof, look no farther than Hurricane Ida's horrific destruction.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

For many climate scientists, the great ferocity of hurricane Ida came to no surprise as the world is starting to really feel the results of climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A huge "blob" of warm water in the Pacific Ocean has been made worse by climate change and led to a ten-year drought in Chile.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists stumbled upon a giant, surprisingly healthy mass of coral that's survived in the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds of years.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Manatees are dying off en masse as a result of worsening pollution and ecosystem collapse off the coast of Florida that took away their food supply.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic iceberg almost crashed into and destroyed a major ice shelf in Antarctica, according to satellite imagery of the close call.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new study published in Nature revealed that heat eminating from the Erath's upper mantle is speeding up the Doomsday Glacier's ice melt.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Wildfires are raging across the entire globe right now, producing unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases, visible scars left behind by climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A huge rain storm, the first in recorded history to hit Greenland's ice sheet, caused a record-breaking ice melt last week.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis of the environmental impact of the 1987 ban on CFCs found that it bought us crucial time to stave off the worst of climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A study warns Atlantic currents may soon stop, plunging parts of the world into freezing temperatures, essentially the plot of "The Day After Tomorrow."
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Prominent Venture Capitalist Admits That the “Climate Is F’d”
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Friday that July 2021 was “Earth’s hottest month in 142 years.”
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

As climate change progresses, hypoxic or "dead" zones of dangerously-low oxygen off the coastline will become bigger and more common.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are warning that global warming is driving the "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation" (AMOC) to the brink of collapse.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers examined 40 hermit crabs off the coast of England and found that they may be "sexually excited" by oleamide, a plastic additive, in the water.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

A comprehensive UN report warns that we have delayed climate action for too long to prevent climate devastation, but we can keep it from getting worse.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Corcoran, Califronia has sunk "the equivalent of a two-story house" over the past century due to massive irrigation efforts and drought.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Doom Suns can turn the sky into vibrant shades of crimson and burnt orange. Here's what they look like — and what exactly causes it.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists uncovered a source of greenhouse gas emissions in the melting permafrost of Siberia, an alarming development for the global climate.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that using a plastic water bottle causes 1,400 times more damage to the environment than does a glass of tap water.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean where oxygen levels have plummeted so low that everything in the area either fled or died.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The amount of ice that melted away from Greenland in a single day would be enough to submerge all of Florida in two inches of water.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Our planet is in exceptionally bad shape, according to a panel of 14,000 scientists, and "untold suffering" is probably coming our way.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A team of prominent scientists warns that we've already passed several ecological tipping points and are approaching even more.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Another brutal heat wave is beginning, this time encapsulating much of the continential United States in a massive heat dome.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski