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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

After three years of testing in the field, scientists in China claim that they've identified a way to engineer transgenic rice that needs less fertilizer.

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Scientists Gene Hack Rice to Need Way Less Fertilizer and Boost Yields

By Frank Landymore

Heat wave Zoe was so bad that Seville, Spain decided to create its own naming and rating system for heat waves and gave it the highest score.

Hooray! Heat Waves Are Now Bad Enough to Get Names

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Taylor Swift and her private jet are the world's worst celeb CO2 emission offenders according to a new report, which the internet freaked out about.

Taylor Swift Didn’t Rack Up Wasteful Private Jet Miles Alone, Team Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Germany may need to expand the life of a nuclear power plant as Russia invades Ukraine and destabilizes power supplies in Europe.

German Government Says It May Keep Nuclear Plant Open After All

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has thrown some weight behind an air conditioning startup Blue Frontier to help stop climate change.

Bill Gates Invests in Exciting Air Conditioning Startup

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A viral Twitter video claims to illustrate how motor proteins move. It's fun, but incorrect — and what those molecules actually do is way cooler.

The Real Story Behind That Viral Clip of a Protein With a Confident Strut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The UK government is planning to bury the world's largest stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the ocean floor, sparking concern among experts.

Experts Warn UK Government Not to Bury Nuclear Waste Under Ocean Floor

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The only Gorgosaurus skeleton that's ever been made available for private ownership sold at auction for more than $6 million yesterday.

Paleontologists Furious as Dinosaur Skeleton Sells at Private Auction

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Western US is in the worst drought in 1,200 years. Lawns suck up previous water resources, but not every resident is on board with cutbacks.

An Evil Force Is Sucking the Life Out of California: Lawns

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Visual effects artist Cinnamontographer has taken on the task of forever enshrining the now discontinued Choco Taco in the form of a high-fidelity 3D scan.

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National Hero Makes Perfect 3D Scan of a Choco Taco Before They Disappear Forever

By Victor Tangermann

A Twitter user said three of his Samsung phones popped open and appear to have battery problems caused by heat and climate change.

Tech Reviewer Says Heatwave Causing Samsung Batteries to Burst Out of Phones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann