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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

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.

UN Scientist Warns That Climate Destruction Is Entering “Uncharted Territory”

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.

Last Night’s Hurricane Devastation Shows That Climate Change Is Here

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.

Today’s Killer Hurricane Is Linked to Climate Change, Scientists Say

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.

Scientist Warns of Megadroughts That Could Collapse Entire Civilizations

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.

Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral

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.

Manatees Are Starving en Masse as Florida’s Ecosystem Crumbles

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.

Watch a Floating, 500 Square Mile Iceberg Nearly Crash Into Antarctica

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.

“Doomsday Glacier” Melting Even Faster Due to Earth’s Core

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.

2021 Wildfires Spewed Record Breaking Amount of C02

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.

Red Alert: It Rained in Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time in Recorded History

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.

Study: A 1987 Chemical Ban Saved the Planet

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."

Uh, Uh… The Plot to “The Day After Tomorrow” May Actually Be Happening

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

July Was Officially the Hottest Month in Recorded History

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.

The Ocean Is Losing Oxygen. This Scientist Says More “Dead Zones” Will Soon Follow.

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Warn Gulf Stream May Collapse, Freezing North America

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.

No, Plastic Pollution Isn’t Driving Crabs Into a Sexual Frenzy

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.

UN Says It’s “Code Red for Humanity” in Alarming Climate Change Report

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.

California Town Sinking Into Ground Due to Corporations Pumping Groundwater

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.

Does the Sun Look Scary? It Might Be the Dreaded “Doom Sun”

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.

Scientists Warn of Methane “Time Bomb” in Siberia

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.

Bottled Water Is 1,400 Times Worse for the Environment Than Tap Water

By Dan Robitzski