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A viral video making the rounds on social media shows beachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous, tsunami-like cloud rolling in.

Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave

By Victor Tangermann

In large swaths of these United States, people are already dying from this summer's brutal and dangerous heat wave.

People Are Already Dropping Dead as Extreme Heat Scorches the US

By Noor Al-Sibai

The heat has been so intense in the United States that an asphalt road buckled and made a car go airborne for a split second in Missouri.

Shocking Video Shows Entire Road Buckling in Heat, Creating a Jump That a Car Instantly Flies Off

By Sharon Adarlo

A heatwave is blanketing vast swaths of America, sending temperatures skyrocketing to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Extreme Heat Is Killing Unfathomable Numbers of People Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo

New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.

Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life

By Frank Landymore

Climate change is making everything about modern life worse — including the quality of the dairy that makes our cheese.

Climate Change Is Ruining Cheese, Scientists and Farmers Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

Carbon removal could help us stave off climate disaster. But if that's to happen, it's already billions of tons behind schedule.

The Carbon Removal Industry Is Already Lagging Behind Where It Needs to Be

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

When viewed from space, a very rude glacier in Antarctica was caught stealing ice from its neighbor as it melted from climate change.

Antarctic Glacier Accused of “Ice Piracy”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NOAA will stop updating its billion-dollar weather disaster database, as the agency faces grueling cuts under the Trump administration.

NOAA Will Stop Tracking Weather Disasters Because Trump Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk said we must move to Mars because the Sun will swallow the Earth, ending life — which won't happen for another six billion years.

Elon Musk’s Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The UK will fund a bevy of solar geoengineering experiments to explore dimming the Sun as a way of combatting climate change.

Scientists Preparing Experiments to Dim the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Hoping to maximize's the ocean's potential as the world's largest carbon sink, scientists in the UK are sucking carbon out of seawater.

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Recent financial reporting indicates that Wall Street's big dogs are all but giving up on climate change as global temperatures soar.

This May Be the Most Terrifying Sign of Global Warming Yet

In an Instagram video, second lady Usha Vance was spotted sitting in front of a shelf that featured a decidedly non-conservative book.

Usha Vance Posted a Video and People Spotted Something Absolutely Wild on a Shelf in the Background

By Noor Al-Sibai

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is quietly ending his green energy policy and advocacy organization, laying off employees throughout the US and Europe.

Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change

The Trump administration is now pulling funding for any research that even mentions the word "climate" in it.

Real Life Is Now “Don’t Look Up” as Trump Pulls Support for Any Research About the Climate

By Frank Landymore

Our planet's glaciers are melting at even more alarming rates than previously predicted, scientists have found.

Glaciers Are Shrinking at an Incredible Rate

By Victor Tangermann

The emissions produced by AI datacenters is likely far worse than believed because of how companies report their sustainability data.

Artificial Intelligence

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have drilled nearly two miles into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting a core sample estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old.

Scientists Recover 1.2 Million-Year-Old Ice Core From Two Miles Deep in Antarctica

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

Scientists have found that not just older adults are succumbing to dangerous temperatures driven by climate change.

Mexico Is Getting So Hot That Even Young People Are Dropping Dead

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have made a remarkable discovery while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland: an abandoned Cold War base.

NASA Scanners Detect Hidden Base Under Arctic Ice

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists disagree when the Thwaites or Doomsday Glacier will fully melt, but they are starting to weigh up large scale interventions.

Scientists Consider Drastic Action as Doomsday Glacier Threatens to Flood Entire Islands and Coasts

By Frank Landymore

A secret recording obtained by the BBC shows the organizer of this year's COP29 climate change conference trying to strike a fossil fuel deal.

Secret Video Shows Top Climate Change Conference Official Promising to Facilitate Fossil Fuel Deals

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back environmental protection, while boosting fossil fuels. Meanwhile, 48 out of 50 states face droughts.

As Trump Prepares to Slash Environmental Protections, 48 of the 50 States Are Facing Droughts

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called SpiralWave has created a device that uses plasma pulls to turn atmospheric CO2 into green methanol.

Bizarre Device Sucks CO2 From Atmosphere and Turns It Back Into Fuel

By Frank Landymore

For the first time in recorded history, Mount Fuji has gone the entire month of October without seeing any snow.

Mount Fuji Snowless For Longest Time In 130 Years

By Frank Landymore

Despite increasingly dire global calls to curb deadly emissions, 2023 was apparently the worst year for global warming on record.

Congratulations, Buffoons! We Did More Global Warming Last Year Than in Any Other Year in Human History

By Noor Al-Sibai

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a breaking point.

Plants and Forests Absorbed Almost No Carbon Last Year, Shocking Climate Scientists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about climate change.

A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new analysis released by the World Wildlife Fund paints an extremely alarming picture of the decimation of wildlife populations.

Wildlife Populations Have Shrunk a Shocking Amount in Just 50 Years, Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

Parts of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco experienced a surprise deluge of heavy rains last month, leaving behind lake-filled oases.

Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Hurricane Milton batters Florida, it's becoming increasingly clear that climate change is making monsters out of extreme storms.

Make No Mistake: Climate Change Turned Hurricane Milton Into a “Monster”

By Noor Al-Sibai

25 out of 35 of the planet's "vital signs" are at the worst levels ever recorded, according to an annual climate change report.

Scientists Just Took the Earth’s “Vital Signs.” They Hated What They Saw.

By Frank Landymore

Satellite imagery shows the might of powerful Hurricane Milton, which is due to make landfall in Florida's western coast this afternoon.

Hurricane Milton Is so Insanely Powerful, It’s Literally Just a Giant Red Smudge on Meteorological Maps

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The world's rivers are drying up at rates faster than ever before thanks to climate change — and last year was the world on record.

Climate Change Is Drying Up All the World’s Rivers at an Alarming Rate

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the simulations, aliens keep dying from climate change because of the heat produced by energy demands, even if they rely on renewables.

Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020: the Moon got substantially colder.

COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim

By Victor Tangermann

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."

Confused Trump Issues Garbled Warning About “Nuclear Warming”

By Victor Tangermann

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

By Frank Landymore

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before, from an ancient Tibetan glacier.

Scientists Discover Ancient Viruses Frozen in Glacier

By Noor Al-Sibai

A record 15 national heat records have been shattered since January, as this year looks on track to surpass the last as the hottest ever.

The Earth Just Can’t Stop Setting Heat Records

By Frank Landymore

European scientists are warning in a new study that key places important to keeping global climate stable are in danger of collapsing.

Major Earth Systems on Track for Collapse, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Critics are concerned about plans to dim the Sun — and one of its staunchest proponents is criticizing them right back.

Scientist Defends Plan to Release Huge Amounts of Sulfur Into the Stratosphere

By Noor Al-Sibai

An underwater drone mapped the hidden side of an ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing a dramatic landscape eaten away by ocean waves.

Underwater Drone Discovers Strange Shapes Under Antarctic Ice

By Sharon Adarlo

Lil Nas X got criticized by random people for flying in a commercial plane, but he said he's trying to emit less carbon emissions.

Lil Nas X Is Flying Commercial to Avoid the Huge Carbon Footprint of a Private Jet

By Sharon Adarlo

For the second day in a row, the Earth shattered its record for the hottest day ever recorded.

Earth Sets Record for Hottest Day Ever Recorded, Smashes Record the Next Day

By Victor Tangermann

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.

China Installs Giant Wind Turbine Built to Harness Power of Hurricanes

By Sharon Adarlo

Project 2025, written by allies of Donald Trump, wants to effectively dissolve NOAA in order to fully privatize weather forecasts.

Trump’s Allies Are Trying to Force You to Pay for Weather Reports

By Frank Landymore

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

At least 28 people died from the heat wave based on reports from west coast states, with the actual figure expected to be higher.

Dozens of Americans Die in Brutal Heat Wave

By Frank Landymore

The air is becoming so hot that even rescue helicopters are struggling to stay airborne, a dangerous development.

It’s Getting So Hot That Medical Choppers Can’t Fly to Rescue People Dying From Heat

By Victor Tangermann

NYC's Third Avenue Bridge was got stuck turning as temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.

It’s So Hot That an Entire New York City Bridge That Opens for Boats Got Jammed

By Frank Landymore

Climate change is supercharging Atlantic ocean temperatures, making Hurricane Beryl particularly fierce and deadly.

Deadly Hurricane Beryl Supercharged by Climate Change, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

To fend off climate change, some propose removing CO2 from the ocean so that it can store even more of the greenhouse gas.

Startups Working on Using the Ocean as Huge Waste Dump for CO2 to Save Earth From Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

As a growing body of evidence shows, the particles in all that air pollution have actually helped cool the planet.

Grim Irony: Curbing Air Pollution Is Warming the Earth Faster

By Frank Landymore

This year's hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia has been deadly with more than 1,300 Muslims dying this month, due to extreme hot weather.

More Than 1,300 Muslim Pilgrims Die From Extreme Heat

By Sharon Adarlo

Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.

Fans of Donald Trump, Who Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax, Hospitalized by Heat at Trump Rallies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some scientific experts have been proposing refreezing the Arctic region via a series of drastic geoengineering projects.

Scientists Working on Desperate Plan to Refreeze Arctic

By Sharon Adarlo