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An Argentinian lagoon in the southern Patagonia region has turned a strikingly bright shade of pink, the result of chemical runoff from a nearby plant.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

The irreverent weather app Carrot now includes a warning about wet bulb conditions that could make it hot enough to drop dead outside.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, the spending habits of Swedish men lead to far more greenhouse gas emissions than do those of women.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that feral hogs release huge amounts of carbon dioxide by diggig up soil as they invade and wreak havoc in new areas.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The extreme heat in Oregon and California is so bad that baby birds are trying to escape and plumetting from their nests before they can fly.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The burgeoning space tourism industry comes with a considerable environmental cost that shouldn't be forgotten.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

In international team of researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that our global plastic pollution problem may be nearing a point of no return.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers dumped 60 brown trout in a water tank that contained low levels of methamphetamine to see if they would get addicted.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

A new car created by award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick is said to be able to clean the air of pollution while you drive it.
Pollution

By Tony Ho Tran

As the death toll from last week's heatwave continues to climb, officials in Oregon have officially designated it a "mass casualty event."
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The scientists and entrepreneurs who helped pioneer and popularize carbon capture technology now say it probably can't save us from climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

An undersea pipeline ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico today — and then somehow ignited, causing the surface of the ocean to catch fire.
Environment

By Jon Christian

The BBC released then promptly edited a climate change for kids that listed a bunch of "positive impacts" that it would have on the UK and the world.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A prominent lobbyist for ExxonMobil admitted that the company actively fights climate science and climate change legislation in secret.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

As the heatwave continues, hundreds of heat-related deaths have been reported in Canada and some US states, presenting a dire warning for climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

As the record-shattering heatwave continues, officials report dozens of sudden, heat-related deaths in Canada and the northwestern United States/
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The tragic collapse of a Miami condo building that killed at least a dozen people seems to have been caused, at least in part, by worsening climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The heat wave is shattering temperature records in Canada and the northwest United States, where temperatures are typically 40 degrees lower in late June.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A leaked UN climate report reveals that humanity and ecosystems around the world are on the absolute brink of destruction.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A new paper warns that increasingly acidic oceans will lead to a collapse of the global food web within the next few decades.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Experts are worried the sea ice covering much of the Arctic is thinning twice as previously thought. "When the Arctic warms, the world warms."
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A massive container ship carrying 330 tons of oil and 25 tons of flammable nitric acid is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka. It's a disaster.
Environment

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent interview, former President Barack Obama suggested that humanity may die off unless we take dire action against climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The container ship that leaked tons of plastic and chemicals near the coast of Sri Lanka is now sinking, carrying hundreds of tons of oil down with it.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

After a fire and explosion wrecked a nearby container ship, the Sri Lankan coastline is coated in plastic and toxic pollution.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new book detailing the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, Sanders preferred extremely cold hotel rooms and private jet travel.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Satellite data on global temperatures doesn't seem to match real-world observations, raising the possibility that climate change is worse than we thought.
Global Warming

By Dan Robitzski

According to a recently presented preprint, climate change may be making our space junk problem even worse.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A new bill in front of the New York state senate would impose a three-year ban on all crypto mining to take stock of its environmental impacts.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company Oxitec has now released its genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, where it hopes they'll reduce local bug populations.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

As glaciers melt, drastic river piracy — or the rivers that rely on glaciers diverting off course — will likely continue to follow.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii has become the first US state in history to declare a climate emergency, The Hill reports.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A biotech company called Oxitec plans to release 500 million gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys -- and residents are furious.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Planting trees in places where they belong is great for the planet, but trying to solve climate change through trees alone isn't enough and could backfire.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change, especially through the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice and increased water usage, is making the Earth rapidly tilt over.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

People are deciding to not have kids to reduce their impact on the environment and struggle to justify bringing children into a climate-ravaged world.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The United States announced that it supports Japan's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A dire new report shows that only about three percent of the land on Earth remains intact and untouched by human-caused destruction.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

After Japan announced it's going ahead with the plan to dump Fukushima's contaminated water into the ocean, a Chinese official issued a personal challenge.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The National Weather Service station in Cape Cod has been abandoned and is scheduled for demolition because it's about to fall into the sea.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Oceanic life is fleeing the increasingly-hot equator for more hospitable water, and a mass extinction event is likely to follow.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In a new report, the US National Academies of Sciences is recommending to study the feasibility of dimming the Sun, thereby fighting climate change.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates reportedly owns more farmland than anyone else in the United States. He recently tried to explain why, and it was a little hard to follow.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

Increasing levels of s ynthetic chemicals and plastics found in the environment and inside our bodies could wreak havoc on our reproductive system.
Pollution

By Victor Tangermann

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Saharan dust carrying radioactive isotopes from France's nuclear bomb tests in the 1960s is now blowing back into France.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050, so scientists are building a simulation of the entire planet to help it get there.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

New models suggest that Earth's magnetic field, already overdue for a total reversal, could shift faster than we thought.
Climate Change

By Tony Ho Tran

The United States has formally reentered the Paris Climate Agreement today. 2030 carbon goals will be set by Earth Day in April.
Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists say they can hunt for alien civilizations by looking for industrial pollutants like nitrogen dioxide in exoplanets' atmospheres.
Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

Shell just announced that it plans to decrease oil production by a small amount every year for the rest of its existence.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Climate activists in Sweden oppose a planned test for geoengineering technology in the country, saying it does nothing to prevent climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A study shows that the sea level is even more sensitive to increasing temperatures than experts predicted, making fighting climate change even more urgent.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The only carbon capture plant in the United States shut down because it was entirely financially dependent on the success of the fossil fuel industry.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists put out a call for a global, "wartime-like" push to build hundreds of carbon capture facilities around the world.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Biden has said very little about space. Here's what NASA could look like under his administration.
Climate Change

By Jon Christian

Climate change is such a huge threat to the planet that it's difficult to conceptualize, even for experts in the field, argues a new report.
Environment

By Dan Robitzski