Climate Change

No, Now This Is Officially the Hottest Earth Has Ever Been [CORRECTION]

It’s getting pretty hard to keep track of all the heat records we’ve been breaking recently, isn’t it? Don’t worry, we’re here to help. NOAA’s latest data reveal we just wrapped up the hottest winter the U.S. has ever seen—just like last summer (which also broke its season record), last year (another record-smasher), the year…

Climate Change Ria Misra

Greenland Is Building the Perfect Place to Watch the World End

A stunning structure built 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle will serve as a crucial research center for glaciologists. But perhaps more importantly, it will be a place where humans can travel to see the real-time impact of climate change. The Illulissat Icefjord is a UNESCO-protected site on Greenland’s west coast that’s known for both…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Trump’s Favorite Real Estate Will Get Swallowed by the Ocean

Celebrity cheese puff and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a problem: climate change. Despite dismissing our global planetary crisis as a Chinese hoax, the real estate mogul’s prized real estate is directly in the line of fire. In thirty years, Tump’s Mar-a-Lago club could be under a foot of water. The Guardian commissioned…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

NYC’s Elegant Storm-Proofing Proposal Will Probably End Up Being a ‘Big Dumb Wall’

In 2014, New York City funded a proposal called the “Big U,” a 10-mile barrier around Lower Manhattan to prevent the devastating effects of both storm surges and sea-level rise. The biggest strength of the $540 million project was that the infrastructure would do double-duty by adding parks and public space around the perimeter of…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

The Day After Tomorrow Happened 30,000 Years Ago

Toward the end of the last ice age, Earth’s climate was a turbulent beast, warming up and chilling out again every 1,500 years. Research published today in Science links these abrupt temperature swings to changes ocean circulation, filling an important gap in our understanding of past climate change. Scientists have long debated the impacts of…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The Window for Avoiding a Dangerous Climate Change Has Closed

Barring some incredible new carbon capture technology, the window for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius appears to have closed. That’s the stark conclusion of a report out in Nature today, which finds that the carbon reductions pledges penned into the Paris Agreement are ridiculously inadequate for keeping our climate within a…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

A Plan to Save This Mammalian Species from Extinction Came Too Late

The rat-like Bramble Cay melomys is the first mammal to go extinct because of human-induced climate change. The conservationists who made this sad discovery now admit they were actually trying to capture these rodents for a captive breeding program—but they arrived too late. As we reported earlier this month, a research team from Queensland’s Department…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

North America Is Set to Announce Its Most Ambitious Clean Energy Target Yet

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are poised to announce an ambitious new energy pledge that would see 50 percent of North American electricity drawn from clean sources by 2025. That pledge, which encompasses renewables like wind and solar but also nuclear energy and carbon capture technology, signals a growing consensus about the energy future…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Six Signs That We’ve Entered a New Geologic Age

We’ve heard a lot of buzz recently about the Anthropocene, the geologic epoch of man and machine. Does it exist? Are we in it right now? Later this summer, the International Stratigraphic Union will convene and attempt to answer these weighty questions. Deciding whether or not we’ve entered a new chapter in geologic history isn’t…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

This Could Be the Biggest Threat To Our Climate If We Don’t Act Fast

When you think “peatland,” you probably picture water, or mosquitoes, or creepily preserved human artifacts. What most of us don’t consider are catastrophic wildfires—but that’s precisely what scientists are now worried about when it comes to one of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on Earth. Mike Waddington is a forest ecologist at McMaster University in Ontario.…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Flooding in West Virginia Is So Bad a Burning House Floated Down a Creek

West Virginia is in the midst of a rash of deadly flooding, and one particularly dystopian video shows what appears to be a burning house floating through a creek in the town of White Sulphur Springs. West Virginia MetroNews reports that the house was seen floating down Howard’s Creek on Thursday afternoon. In the video,…

Climate Change Sophie Kleeman

Heat Waves in New York Could Cause Thousands of Deaths

Attention, New Yorkers: If climate change continues unabated, over 3,000 people in the city will die every year from heat by 2080. Do something, and maybe only about 1,500 will die. This fun news is according to a paper published online this week in Environmental Health Perspectives that analyzes the effect of future climate change…

Climate Change Angela Chen

After 60 Years of Fighting, We Finally Found the Tallest Peak in the US Arctic

A debate over the tallest peak in the Alaskan arctic has finally been settled after almost six decades of fighting. Both Mount Chamberlin and Mount Isto claimed the title as their own. Now, one has emerged triumphant—and a third, entirely separate mountain peak has also entered the race. The roots of the debate date back…

Climate Change Ria Misra

26 Million Dead Trees Are Fueling a Catastrophic Fire Season in California

One more horrific prediction has come to pass for California’s drought-ravaged forests. According to the US Forest Service, trees are dying at an even more astonishing rate than they were last summer, creating fuel for what will almost certainly be the worst wildfire season in memory. Last year, a comprehensive US Forest Service survey estimated…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

This Pink Snow Does Not Bode Well For Our Future

Your first thought on seeing this weird pink snow might be an industrial accident or a nearby Big Foot massacre. Rest assured, it’s neither—just a perfectly natural, snow-dwelling algae. So, why are scientists all in a tizzy about it? Because it’s causing glaciers to melt faster. That’s the startling conclusion of a study just published…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

This Floating Walkway Is Christo’s First Truly Important Work of Art

Over the weekend, my social media feeds were draped in neon orange as the world exuberantly shared the first photos of Christo’s latest work, The Floating Piers, a 1.8-mile walkway across an Italian lake. It is easily the artist’s most ambitious piece from an engineering perspective—and one that actually adds value to its location. For…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

The Worst Coral Die-off in History Just Got Worse

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has just released an update on the state of the Earth’s coral reefs, and it’s bleak as hell. For the third year in a row, many reefs around the world will be exposed to hotter-than-normal temperatures, placing them at risk (again) for catastrophic die-offs. This week, scientists are convening at…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

A Massive Heat Dome Will Smash Records Across the US This Weekend

It’s not even summer yet, but it’s damn hot. A very large portion of the country is currently simmering in heat of 100 degrees or higher, and it could get even hotter. Many cities in the Southwest and Midwest are preparing to break records this weekend and through Monday, including the US’s all-time June record…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

The Most Hopeful Place On Earth For Climate Change

Eastern Canada’s black spruce forests are one of the largest untamed wilderness areas on Earth. And in refreshingly optimistic news, parts of this ecosystem are expected to flourish in a warmer world, creating a refuge for species escaping drought-stricken regions to the south and west. That’s the conclusion of a sweeping new analysis of black…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The Last Spot on Earth Just Passed a Historic Climate Milestone

On May 23rd, something extraordinary happened at the South Pole. For the first time in 4 million years, carbon dioxide concentrations cleared 400 parts per million (ppm). It’s the last climate-monitoring spot on Earth to pass the historic milestone. The South Pole is experiencing the same relentless warming trend as the rest of our planet,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

No, Now This Is Officially the Hottest Earth Has Ever Been [CORRECTION]

Greenland Is Building the Perfect Place to Watch the World End

Trump’s Favorite Real Estate Will Get Swallowed by the Ocean

NYC’s Elegant Storm-Proofing Proposal Will Probably End Up Being a ‘Big Dumb Wall’

The Day After Tomorrow Happened 30,000 Years Ago

The Window for Avoiding a Dangerous Climate Change Has Closed

A Plan to Save This Mammalian Species from Extinction Came Too Late

North America Is Set to Announce Its Most Ambitious Clean Energy Target Yet

Six Signs That We’ve Entered a New Geologic Age

This Could Be the Biggest Threat To Our Climate If We Don’t Act Fast

Flooding in West Virginia Is So Bad a Burning House Floated Down a Creek

Heat Waves in New York Could Cause Thousands of Deaths

After 60 Years of Fighting, We Finally Found the Tallest Peak in the US Arctic

26 Million Dead Trees Are Fueling a Catastrophic Fire Season in California

This Pink Snow Does Not Bode Well For Our Future

This Floating Walkway Is Christo’s First Truly Important Work of Art

The Worst Coral Die-off in History Just Got Worse

A Massive Heat Dome Will Smash Records Across the US This Weekend

The Most Hopeful Place On Earth For Climate Change

The Last Spot on Earth Just Passed a Historic Climate Milestone

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