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Employees at the site in South Carolina where the US used to construct nuclear weapons have discovered a radioactive wasp nest.

Workers Find Radioactive Wasp Nest at Nuclear Facility, But the Wasps Are Missing

By Victor Tangermann

AI models that are bigger in size compared to smaller models are estimated to use more energy, emit more carbon, and are more accurate.

Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI

By Sharon Adarlo

For the past two decades, vast swathes of the oceans have been darkening as sunlight penetrates at shallower depths than it once did.

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.

Heartbreaking Video Shows Fish Fleeing Huge Nets

By Frank Landymore

A new study observes economic patterns related to climate change in order to find the staggering amount of emissions pumped out by the rich.

Scientists Just Found Who’s Causing Global Warming

Brooke Rollins issued an "Emergency Situation Determination" affecting over 112 million acres, or 59 percent of federal land.

Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Bad news for people who love good puppers: dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be pretty bad for the environment.

New Research Finds That Dogs Are Incredibly Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

The explosion of a Starship rocket during its seventh orbital flight test may have released literal tons of harmful pollutants into the air.

Elon Musk’s Massive Rocket Explosion May Have Caused Significant Atmospheric Pollution

By Frank Landymore

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.

While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

New York City has declared its first drought warning since 2002, adding to the list of climate-related events afflicting the US and world.

As Climate Catastrophe Looms, New York City Declares Drought Warning

By Ashley Bardhan

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump’s Climate Plan

By Victor Tangermann

An activist group claimed to be behind the fire, which cut off power to the Tesla factory on Tuesday morning.

Tesla Factory Shut Down by Suspected Arson Attack

By Frank Landymore

A Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town's water to support cloud computing and AI efforts.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Draining Arizona’s Water for its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Avocado bloody.

Millennials’ Avocado Habit Is Killing Mexico’s Forests

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study from Oxfam says the richest 1 percent of the world had the same carbon footprint in 2019 as the poorest 66 percent in the world.

Scientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of Climate Change

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have discovered microplastics inside rain clouds, indicating that the particles are contaminating nearly every part of nature.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Clouds

By Victor Tangermann