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The arctic glacier that many believe could predict "doomsday" could start collapsing faster than expected — and if that happens, we're all screwed.

The Doomsday Glacier Is Hanging on “By Its Fingernails,” Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The UN says world population is set to hit 8 billion this November, and experts think popualtion will peak around 10 billion people.

The World Population Is Going to Hit 8 Billion Any Day Now

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

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

A Death Valley flood trapped 1,000 people after record rainfall caused flash flooding. The National Park Service said climate change will continue.

Death Valley Flooding Traps Nearly 1,000 People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mysterious red ocean glow pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was caused by commercial saury fishing vessel lights.

Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Startup EarthGrid's plasma bot is built to bore tunnels underground fast and cheap, and may help run electric and power grid lines for the US.

Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Incredibly Fast Using Plasma

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's pretty difficult to justify opting for a 17-minute trip on a private jet over a 45-minute car ride — but that's exactly what Kylie Jenner just did.

Kardashian Slammed for 17-Minute Private Jet Flight to Beat Traffic

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Land Life, a company that offers carbon offsets to polluting industries through planting trees, has accidentally started a massive forest fire in Spain.

Company Providing Carbon Offsets Accidentally Sets Large Forest Fire

By Victor Tangermann

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Climate-change-driven heat waves spell disaster for the UK as the country buckles under its hottest night and day ever, back to back.

UK Has Hottest Night in Recorded History, Then Hottest Day in Recorded History

By Frank Landymore

The UK — which has announced a "red warning" for extreme heat — weapped London's 135-year-old Hammersmith Bridge silver foil to keep it from cracking.

London Wraps Historic Bridge in Foil to Save It from Horrific Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over the weekend, one of the famed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles apparently rolled right over large swaths of the US as part of a summer storm system.

Blessed Weather Pattern Looks Exactly Like a Ninja Turtle

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Europe is being gripped by a devastating heat wave, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes — and killing over a thousand more.

Over a Thousand Die in European “Heat Apocalypse”

By Victor Tangermann

Living Carbon has gone back to carbon capture's literal roots, but with a twist: they've created genetically-modified, fast-growing trees.

Startup Says It’s Gene Hacked Trees to Suck Up More Climate-Destroying CO2

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking new video shows a massive tidal wave sweep over the top of a two-story condo in Keauhou, Hawaii, amid a "historic" ocean surf.

Shocking Video Shows Massive Tidal Wave Crash Over a 2-Story Condo

By Victor Tangermann

Things are getting steamy in England — quite literally, in the case of one Royal Air Force base where it got so hot, the runway actually melted.

UK Shuts Down Air Force Base When It Got So Hot the Runway Melted

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ship passed through a "milky sea" deep-water bioluminescence event in 2019. A new study about bioluminescence details the glowing ocean and biology.

Sailors Say the Ocean Around Their Ship Started to Glow

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amid heatwaves, drought, and floods, UN Secretary General António Guterres told state ministers that "no nation is immune" from the climate change crisis.

Head of UN Says Humanity Is Facing “Collective Suicide”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

English officials say thousands of peoeple could die in this week's heatwave. Temperatures could hit 104 degrees and caused a emergency heat red alert.

English Officials Horrified by Heat Wave They Say Could Kill Thousands

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Experts are worried that Texas' state's power plants won't be able to keep up with energy demands as temperatures soar and plants run full steam.

Experts Concerned Texas Power Plants Will Start to Die Amid Heat Wave

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire Bill Gates is sad about the world's current state of affairs — so he says he's donating virtually all of his personal wealth in order to fix it.

Bill Gates Says Sorry the World Isn’t Going So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Even if the crypto market isn't exactly growing in terms of profit, the enthusiasts who mine it are certainly increasing their energy consumption.

United States Crypto Miners Are Now Using as Much Power as Houston

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crypto miners finally made at least one eco-conscious decision this week when they shut down temporarily to avoid overloading Texas' electric grid.

Texas Gets So Hot That Crypto Miners Call It Quits

By Lonnie Lee Hood

To prevent power outages this winter, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asked that as many as nine of the country's nuclear reactors be brought online.

Japan May Need Nine Nuclear Reactors Turned On to Get Through Winter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While addressing legislators on Thursday, EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič warned that "the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever."

EU Warns That Current Drought Could Become “The Worst Ever” As Fires Spread

By Frank Landymore

Space travel is exciting. But as rocket launches become more frequent, the damage to the environment may no longer be as negligible as once believed.

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

Around 300 secret polar bears have been secluded from other polar bear populations in Greenland for about 200 years, scientists said in a new study.

Scientists Find Secret Polar Bear Clan Hidden For Centuries in Greenland

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cattle are dying by the thousands because of an intense heat wave. The The Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed at least 2,000 dead cattle.

Thousands of Cattle Die From Intense Heat in US

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

Wild Elephant Reportedly Killed Woman, Returned to Trample Corpse at Funeral

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers say superworms, much bigger than a mealworm or wax worm, can eat plastic Styrofoam and survive, and could digest plastic garbage and pollution.

Scientists Discover “Superworms” That Can Survive on Eating Just Styrofoam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Climate change is causing Utah's Great Salt Lake to continue to shrink, paving the way for an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.

Experts Warn of Toxic Arsenic Clouds as Great Salt Lake Dries Up

By Victor Tangermann

The archipelago nation of Seychelles says industrialized and Western nations aren't following through on climate change and climate aid promises.

Archipelagic Nation Sick of Other Countries Breaking Climate Change Promises

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A few wind farms in Scotland were asked to reduce output by 25 megawatts because turbines produced more power than the UK's electric grid could handle.

The UK Is Producing Too Much Wind Power, Actually

By Lonnie Lee Hood