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Residents in Pyongyang, North Korea say living in penthouses is a nightmare without running water, electricity or elevator access.

Only the Poorest People in North Korea Want to Live in the Tops of High-Rises

By Lonnie Lee Hood

California is a step closer to a completely clean energy power grid. Is it in time to stop climate change and reverse environmental damage?

100% Clean Energy Grid Coming Close in California

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at the agency's jet propulsion lab in California, chained himself to a JP Morgan Chase bank last week to protest government inaction on climate change.

NASA Scientist Fights Off Tears Over Impending Disaster

By Lonnie Lee Hood

ProVeg, dedicated to reducing meat consumption, paid for a recent study that says vegan dog food I s healthier than those on conventional meat diets.

Research Funded by Vegans Claims Being Vegan May Be Healthier for Your Dog

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Oxitech is planning to release millions more of its controversial gene-hacked mosquitoes in California to reduce disease and population.

California Prepares to Release Millions of Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New reserach shows fungi and mushrooms create electrical pulses and may be communicating with each other, or talking to each other.

Scientist Says Mushrooms Have a Language They Use to Talk to Each Other

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Christopher Reddy, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, warns that a decaying oil tanker anchored off the coast of Yemen could explode.

Scientist Warns That a Huge Tanker Is Probably Going to Spill a Million Barrels of Oil Into the Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

Despite declining global shark populations the meat is winding up in pet food, according to a new study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

DNA Test Finds Endangered Species in Cat and Dog Food

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of climate scientists are considering alternative options to sounding to alarm on global warming – including a mass walkout.

Scientists Plotting Mass Walkout to Protest Everyone Destroying the World

By Tony Ho Tran

This week, Australian environment minister Sussan Ley announced the removal of the humpback whale species from the endangered wildlife list.

Humpback Whales No Longer Endangered, Australian Officials Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The 500-pound bear known as Hank the Tank became perhaps the cutest and yet most terrifying criminal in the US justice system in many centuries this week.

DNA Evidence Exonerates Giant Home-Invading Bear

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crypto miners in Montana revived a dying coal-powered plant in Montana last year and the resulting spike in emissions was staggering.

Crypto Miners Took Over an Entire Power Plant, Spiking CO2 Emissions

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A robot travelled to the most-damaged Fukushima reactor and photographed mounds of melted fuel that sank following the tsunami that destroyed the facility.

Photos From Deep Inside Fukushima Reactor Show Horrid Mounds of Radioactive Sludge

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study by NewClimate Institute found that 25 large corporations that promised to fight climate change are doing a laughably bad job at it.

Surprise! Companies That Promised to Hit Net-Zero Emissions Are Failing Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.

Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner created mechanical trees to soak up carbon dioxide and mitigate climate change.

Scientists Propose Creating Mechanical Trees to Suck Up Evil Carbon Dioxide

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One tour company owner in Lapland, the northernmost region in Finland, went viral after posting her reindeer-powered sled to avoid high gas prices.

Gas Prices So High in Finland One Woman Gets Around With Reindeer

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study published in the journal Microbial Ecology found a growing number of bugs that have evolved to carry a plastic-degrading enzyme.

Microbes Are Evolving to Eat Plastic Pollution, Scientists Say

By Tony Ho Tran

Prominent astrophysicist Martin Rees criticizes global leadership for ignoring climate change, comparing them to frogs boiling in a pot.

Astrophysicist Warns That Humanity Will Boil Like a Frog in a Pot

By Dan Robitzski

The operators of the oil pipeline that spilled 144,000 gallons of crude oil off the coast of California waited for three hours before shutting it down.

Operators Let Oil Pipeline Gush Into Ocean for Hours Without Shutting It Off

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and launched criminal investigations into the cause of a horrific oil spill.

California Declares State of Emergency, Opens Criminal Investigation Over Horrific Oil Spill

By Dan Robitzski

The German government just unveiled a facility that synthesizes jet fuel out of nothing but water and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

New Facility Creates Jet Fuel Out of Water

By Dan Robitzski

About 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of a pipeline near Orange County, California, causing damage to the environment that could last for months.

Huge Oil Spill Strikes Off Coast of California

By Dan Robitzski

Mining companies are planning to scrape up the materials necessary to build electric car batteries from the bottom of the ocean.

Corporations Are Sending Huge Mining Machines to the Bottom of the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

A massive dust storm struck Brazil on Sunday, with massive plumes of dirt appearing to engulf entire cities that were enduring a long-term drought.

Watch a Huge Dust Storm Swallow an Entire City

By Dan Robitzski

Alarming new research suggests that each generation will face a more climate change-ravaged planet than the one before it.

If You’re Under 40 You’re Gonna See Some Horrible Stuff, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists that developed climate projects for the year 2,500 is warning of an earth so different it's "alien to humans."

The Climate Projection for 500 Years From Now Is Unbelievably Bad

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified alarming parallels between the conditions that led to a horrific mass extinction event and the impacts of modern-day climate change.

Scientists Alarmed by Telltale Sign of Global Mass Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have discovered more evidence that oil spills can have long lasting impacts on marine life even more than a decade after the spill.

Scientists Find Tissue Deformities in Seafood Linked to Deepwater Horizon Spill

By Tony Ho Tran

Snakes equipped with GPS trackers and dosimeters are monitoring radioactivity levels near the Fukushima nuclear disaster site.

Scientists Monitoring Radioactive Snakes Near Fukushima Meltdown Site

By Dan Robitzski

In order to keep Fukushima's radioactive water from impacting the fishing industry, the nuclear power plant's operators plan to dig an undersea tunnel.

Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists stumbled upon a giant, surprisingly healthy mass of coral that's survived in the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds of years.

Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral

By Dan Robitzski

Manatees are dying off en masse as a result of worsening pollution and ecosystem collapse off the coast of Florida that took away their food supply.

Manatees Are Starving en Masse as Florida’s Ecosystem Crumbles

By Dan Robitzski

As climate change progresses, hypoxic or "dead" zones of dangerously-low oxygen off the coastline will become bigger and more common.

The Ocean Is Losing Oxygen. This Scientist Says More “Dead Zones” Will Soon Follow.

By Dan Robitzski

The California state legislature might legalize human composting in the state, reducing the environmental toll of traditional burial or cremation.

New California Law Would Allow Human Composting

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean where oxygen levels have plummeted so low that everything in the area either fled or died.

Scientists Horrified by Growing “Dead Zone” in Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

The amount of ice that melted away from Greenland in a single day would be enough to submerge all of Florida in two inches of water.

One Day of Greenland’s Ice Melt Could Submerge Florida

By Dan Robitzski

A team of prominent scientists warns that we've already passed several ecological tipping points and are approaching even more.

Scientists Warn That the Earth Is Literally Dying

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.

Men Are Causing Way More Climate Change Than Women, Scientists Say

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.

Scientists Discover Dozens of Ancient Viruses, Frozen in Ice

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.

Feral Hogs Are Contributing Hugely to Climate Change, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse

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.

Underwater Pipeline Leaks, Gulf of Mexico Ocean Catches on Fire

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.

BBC Mocked For Teaching Kids Climate Change Will Have Nice Upsides

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.

Deadly Condo Collapse Linked to 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.

We’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

By Dan Robitzski

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

Leaked UN Climate Report: The Apocalypse Is Almost Here

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.

Sun Heat on Earth Doubled In 15 Years, You Dumb Melting Morons

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists created a census of the algae causing the Alps' pink snow to better predict what it means for the changing environment.

Scientists Sequence DNA Found in Pink Snow That Covered Mountains

By Dan Robitzski

The growing number of satellites in orbit could pose a serious environmental threat when they incinerate upon reentry into the atmosphere.

Burning Satellites Could Accidentally Geoengineer the Earth

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.

Burned Container Ship Is Sinking With 330 Tons of Oil On Board

By Dan Robitzski

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

Burning Container Ship Covers Beaches With Horrible Toxic “Snow”

By Dan Robitzski

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.

New York May Ban All Bitcoin Mining

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.

Biotech Company Officially Unleashes Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in Florida

By Dan Robitzski

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

Rivers Around the World Are Disappearing

By Dan Robitzski

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

Residents Furious at Release of 500 Million Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

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.

Women Are Choosing Not to Have Children Because of 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.

United States Supports Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

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.

Study: Humanity Has Ravaged All But 3 Percent of The Land on Earth

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.

Japanese Prime Minister Challenged to Drink Radioactive Water Before Dumping It Into the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Bill Gates Attempts to Explain Why He Bought More Farmland Than Anyone Else in America

By Jon Christian

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

France Tested Nuclear Weapons in Africa. Now Radioactive Dust Is Drifting Back Into France.

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.

Scientists Start Work on Simulation of Entire Earth

By Dan Robitzski