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The energy crisis in Europe has gotten so bad that CERN is considering idling the Large Hadron Collider to save energy amid potential rationing.

Europe’s Energy Crisis Is So Bad It May Have to Idle CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

By Noor Al-Sibai

Shelling and fighting near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest nuclear plant, are making locals increasingly nervous about Russia.

Fighting Heats Up Near Ukraine Nuclear Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup said their study found commercial fishing responsible for much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Overwhelming Amount of Plastic in the Ocean Isn’t What You Think

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A solar company under investigation for violating consumer protections filed suit againt a company it blames for failure. Meanwhile, the climate changes.

Solar Company Under Investigation for Installing Systems That Don’t Work

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A chief engineer and national from Russia was sentenced to a year and one day in jail for purposefully dumping waste water with oil off the US coast.

Man Headed to Prison for Dumping Toxic Pollution Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon — which made solar power a key pillar of its plan to reach zero emissions by 2040 — secretly switched off all rooftop warehouse solar panels.

Amazon Secretly Shut Down All Its Solar Rooftops After They Started Catching Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Ecuadorian government is begging people to stop poaching the Galapagos islands' famed giant tortoises and eating them.

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Authorities Plead: Please Stop Eating Critically Endangered Giant Tortoises

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nearly 180,000 people in Jackson, Mississippi don't have clean drinking water. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration for Jackson.

The Water System in Jackson, Mississippi Has Effectively Collapsed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

California is spending $20 million on a pilot project that will involve 8,500 feet of solar panels covering sections of canals.

California Installing Huge Solar Panels Over Canals to Combat Drought

By Victor Tangermann

Samsung worked with Bill Gates to invent a new kind of toilet that recycles and cleans waste and is better for the environment.

Bill Gates’ New Toilet Sets Your Poop on Fire

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Pakistan's climate change minister says one-third of the country is underwater following summer flooding. At least 1,100 died in the Pakistan flood.

Pakistani Official Says a Third of the Country Is Underwater in “Apocalyptic” Flood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists are warning that it's now "inevitable" that Greenland's ice cap will melt, leading to a major rise in sea levels, The Guardian reports.

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Now “Inevitable” That Greenland’s Ice Cap Will Melt and Cause Major Sea-Level Rise, Scientists Warn

By Victor Tangermann

Drought-stricken California soil has, over the course of several years, been slowly releasing a meningitis-causing fungus into the air.

Climate Change Releasing Horrid Disease-Causing Fungus from California Soil

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK's Environmental Agency announced that Britons may soon be drinking sewage water to counter the region's worsening environmental circumstances.

UK May Have to Make Peace With Drinking Water Made From Sewage, Official Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twelve homes in a resettlement community for climate change survivors opened their doors to new owners this week in New Isle, Louisiana.

Louisiana Opens First Climate Change Resettlement Community

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A scientist is attempting to build a framework for understanding "plant neurobiology," with the hope of answering the question: are plants conscious?

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New Experiments Examine Whether Plants Might Be Conscious Beings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As water levels dip dangerously low, dry river and lake beds reveal long-forgotten and hidden objects the rest of the world was never meant to see.

The Top 13 Wildest Objects That Terrible Droughts Have Revealed

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new fossil found in a man's backyard may be the biggest ever discovered in Europe. The Late Jurassic sauropod is 82 feet long and nearly 40 feet tall.

Man Discovers 82-Foot Dinosaur Skeleton in Backyard

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More than 900 people are dead and 50,000 more are homeless in Pakistan following record-breaking amounts of rain. Flooding has also impacted crops.

At Least 900 Dead, 50K Homeless in Pakistan After Summer Floods

By Lonnie Lee Hood

North Carolina drivers who own a Ford Lightning F-150 may get paid to provide power to the local energy grid. It could prevent grid failures.

Ford F-150 Lightning Drivers Who Boost the Power Grid Might Get Paid in North Carolina

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists Say Future Wind Turbines Could Be Recycled Into Delicious Gummy Bears

Scientists Say Future Wind Turbines Could Be Recycled Into Delicious Gummy Bears

By Frank Landymore

Dogs literally cry tears of joy when they see their owners after they've been away, scientists have found in the first study of its kind.

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Scientists Discover That Dogs Cry Tears of Joy When Reunited With Owners

By Noor Al-Sibai

Companies in the shipping industry are using cargo sail boats because of delays and the cost of fossil fuel. Shipping via sail boat is more eco-friendly.

Several Companies Are Switching From Cargo Vessels to Wooden Sailing Ships

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ocean Builders has unveiled the SeaPod, a rounded, two-person luxury pod home that hovers above the ocean by way of buoyant, air-filled steel tubes.

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Startup Selling Luxurious Homes That Poke Out of the Ocean on Stalks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The spotted lanternfly, though invasive and devastating to grape vines and fruit trees, is beautiful. But does that mean it deserves mercy?

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Tender New Yorkers Refuse to Kill Horrible Invasive Bug

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Do not panic when you read the following sentence: there are now walking sharks who have come out of the ocean to walk on land.

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Scientists Intrigued by Sharks That Can Walk on Land for Two Hours

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists say they have cracked the code on how to scale up the creation of lab-grown meat, potentially paving the way for mass production.

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Scientists Cook Comically Tiny Lab-Grown Hamburger

By Victor Tangermann

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

Stay out of the water, because Fukui city officials warn of an aggressive dolphin that's attacked and injured at least six people so far.

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Furious Dolphin Bites At Least Six Beachgoers in Japan

By Frank Landymore

For the better part of the last century, one question has dogged humanity: if and when nuclear war breaks out, what will happen next?

Horrific Simulation: Nuclear War Would Kill Five Billion People

By Noor Al-Sibai

An extremely unlucky Turkish black bear cub got its hands on a pretty questionable treat: hallucinogenic "mad honey" that had it go on a very bad trip.

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Bear Eats Hallucinogenic Honey, Has Wild Trip

By Victor Tangermann

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

Cosmic voids in the cosmic web may be connected to dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.

Huge Empty Voids in Universe May Be Generating Dark Energy, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Officials are alarmed by Russia's decision to keep bombing a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied region in southeastern Ukraine.

Officials Beg Russia to Stop Bombing Near Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists may have an answer as to what the hell happened to Betelgeuse.

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One of the Brightest Stars in the Sky Is Acting Bizarre, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

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

An incoming solar storm cycle is going to make things much worse for the increasing number of satellites that are going up.

Incoming Solar Storm Season May Totally Screw Up Satellites, Government Scientist Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Supply chain shortages have put transformers in short supply, so states may struggle to restore electricity after hurricanes this season.

Supply Chain Shortages Making Hurricane Season Even Scarier

By Lonnie Lee Hood

After the gigantic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, researchers have found that in spite of cleanup efforts, residue remained 10 years later.

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Researchers Still Finding Residue From Massive 2010 BP Oil Spill

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

US Senate Democrats passed a bill to address climate change and energy needs through new corporate taxes on Sunday. Is it enough?

Senate Democrats Pass Sweeping Climate and Energy Bill

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

The world's first lab-grown "synthetic embryo" has once again roiled the stem cell ethics discourse even though the human version isn't coming anytime soon.

The World’s First-Ever “Synthetic Embryo” Is Already Causing Controversy

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

All commercial and public buildings have been banned from lowering their AC below 81 degrees, despite record shattering heatwaves across Europe.

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Spain Forcing Public Places to Set AC at or Above 81 Degrees Fahrenheit

By Frank Landymore

Iceland's Fagradalsfjall volcano erupted near a major Icelandic airport on Wednesday afternoon, roughly 20 miles from the nation's capital Reykjavik.

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Jaw-Dropping Video Shows Massive Volcano Erupting Near Airport

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In uniquely ominous news, the Earth is apparently spinning faster than usual. And if that continues, we'll probably have to make some changes to our clocks.

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The Earth Is Spinning so Fast, We Might Have to Turn Back the Clock

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists at Nagoya University have discovered dark matter from 12 billion years ago, making it the earliest observation of the substance to date

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Scientists Just Detected the Oldest Dark Matter Ever Observed

By Frank Landymore

Earth About to Be Blasted By a Storm Ejected From the Sun’s “Southern Hole”

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Earth About to Be Blasted By a Storm Ejected From the Sun’s “Southern Hole”

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian company offers a promising new wave energy prototype that has already supplied power to the electrical grid of a small island.

Floating “Blowhole” Platform Can Generate Energy From Just Waves

By Frank Landymore

New photos of a far-flung galaxy cluster have left a group of scientists stumped as they ponder whether they've discovered a new form of physics.

Astronomers Shocked By Mysterious Radio Waves That Seem to Defy Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

A small nuclear reactor has been approved for certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, the first in the country.

First Small Nuclear Reactor Greenlit By US Regulators

By Frank Landymore

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