Climate Change

Earth’s Tropical Rainforests Could Look Completely Different By the End of the Century

In 2005, an intense heatwave struck a mountaintop rainforest in northeast Australia. Accounts of the event were rather apocalyptic: birds dropping dead out of the sky; entire patches of forest withering to a crisp. But the biggest casualty of all was a snow-white furball that scampered amongst the branches at the highest elevations. The white…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

How Two Environmental Changes Took Down the Most Powerful League in Medieval Europe

Environmental change is big news these days, as is speculation on how that change will reorder, and possibly reshape, the world powers. It has happened before: one of the great powers of medieval Europe collapsed when the environment changed around it. In the 1100s, the prominent merchants of a few German cities were each too…

Climate Change Esther Inglis-Arkell

You Can Barely Even See Yosemite’s Largest Glacier Anymore

Lyell Glacier was Yosemite’s National Park’s largest glacier. In 1883, park officials took a photograph of the ice giant. This year, NASA’s climate team recreated that photo with the glacier in its current state. The comparison is stunning. Lyell Glacier is not only the largest in Yosemite, it’s also the second largest in the Sierra…

Climate Change Ria Misra

Bill Nye Explains Everything You Need to Know About Earth’s Changing Climate

You’d have to live in an underwater cave to have missed the news that human activity is warming the planet. But climate change is a really complex issue, impacting everything from our atmosphere to our oceans in ways that aren’t always obvious. Still, it’s important that we all try to understand the basics. Thankfully, a…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

How Three Countries Being Engulfed By The Ocean May Relocate To Survive

Right now, world leaders in Paris are trying to stop climate change from altering the world inexorably. But for hundreds of thousands of people who live in some low-lying nations, it’s already late in the game. While climate change for most of us is an abstract concept, the people who live in these low-lying countries…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

China’s New Carbon Pledge Puts the US Clean Power Plan to Shame

In the wake of yet another bout of devastating smog, China announced today that it plans cut its power sector emissions 60% by 2020, a promise that puts the US Clean Power Planto shame. If fulfilled, the pledge would make a major dent in global carbon pollution. China’s cabinet made the announcement at the COP21…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

WWI and Climate Change Show How Bad We Are At Confronting Catastrophe

The onset of World War I and the current climate change crisis have a lot more in common than you might think. Here’s why the two historical events are eerily similar—and why it’s so damn hard for us to prevent a self-inflicted disaster that everyone knows is coming. Shortly before he died in 1898, Germany’s…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

All the GOP Anti-Climate Change Arguments and Why They’re Wrong

From “global warming is a hoax because it’s snowing” to “maybe this is our fault but we’re not doing a damn thing about it,” the climate rhetoric of the GOP’s 2016 presidential candidates is a many-headed hydra of confusion, apathy, and straight-up delusion. The science, on the other hand, is clear: Earth’s climate is changing,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks’ Corporate Sponsors

UK-based activist group Brandalism has peppered the streets of Paris with 600 fake outdoor ads meant to expose the hypocrisy of COP21 Climate Conference corporate sponsors. The fake, unauthorized outdoor ads were strategically placed around Paris this past weekend, and were made to look nearly identical to the originals. The ads were prepared by an…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

7 Installations Protesting Climate Change In Paris, Even If Actual Protesters Can’t

The entire world is watching as politicians pour into Paris today to decide the future of the Earth. But you might have missed what’s going on outside the summit, where dozens of activists and artists have transformed the city with installations about climate change. Many of the protests and marches that would normally go on…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

How Much Carbon Will Be Emitted By People Travelling to the Paris Climate Talks?

With attendees from 195 countries convening Paris this week for the UN’s COP21 climate talks, it’s definitely fair to wonder if all that traveling might actually be a bad thing for the climate. Wired did the math. Although many of the events around the talks have been scaled back or cancelled after the attacks earlier…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

We’re Spending the Next Two Weeks Envisioning Our Future Earth

Right now, leaders from 195 countries are meeting in Paris to map out a plan for the planet’s future. Nothing like this has ever happened in our lifetimes—and it’s surely just the beginning of a long process that will consume the years ahead. As Gizmodo’s Maddie Stone puts it in her must-read introduction to why…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Watch a Terrified Snail Hop Away From Danger

This poor snail hops desperately away from danger when approached by a predator, unlike its brethren, who flee slowly in quiet desperation. We should study their technique, because they may one day be a major food source. This is the humpbacked conch snail (Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus) trying hard to get away from its main predator,…

Climate Change Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Future of the Earth Will Be Decided This Week

The signs of climate change are all around us, and at long last, the world is taking action. This week, leaders from 196 countries are meeting in Paris to negotiate a historic climate treaty that could steer humanity away from dangerous global warming and toward a low-carbon future. Climate change is a big story—the biggest…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

Earlier this year, the Clean Power Plan pledged to cut US power plant carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2050. A new study says the US can do way better than that: reducing all greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent and running the country entirely on renewable energy by 2050. This most optimistic scenario is…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

The Vicious Cycle Emerging Between War and Severe Weather Will Be Hard To Stop

The world has changed a lot in the past 12 months, with political conflict focusing the world on immediate crises, not the distant future. But a group of scientists are are showing how these conflicts will affect our ability to adapt to climate change down the road–and our ability to survive as a human race.…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Reservoir That Made the World Pay Attention to California’s Drought

Do you remember where you were when you first realized the severity of the drought in the Western US? I would guess that you weren’t staring at a cloudless sky or a dry faucet. You were probably looking at a photo of Folsom Lake. Although drought conditions were technically declared after the low-precipitation winter of…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Biologists Saved Wyoming Toads From Extinction

The only Wyoming toads in the world live in Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Wyoming, where they were common until the 1970s, hopping around at the edges of creeks, ponds, and small lakes. Then they started to disappear. They fell prey to the chytrid fungus, like nearly a third of the world’s amphibian…

Climate Change Kiona Smith-Strickland

How Much Rain Is El Niño Bringing? “One Storm After Another Like a Conveyor Belt”

NASA climatologist Bill Patzert doesn’t mince words. He already described this winter’s El Niño as “too big to fail” and now he’s given us a very good description of what to expect from it: “Mudslides, heavy rainfall, one storm after another like a conveyor belt.” The Monster Godzilla Bruce Lee Chris Farley El Niño will…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

These Fast-Melting Glaciers Could Change the World’s Coastlines Forever

The rapidly-melting glaciers of Greenland are moving faster than anyone thought—and this slow-motion crisis has the potential to change the world’s coastlines forever. Over the past year, Greenland’s glaciers—and the vast network of lakes, rivers, and other features below them—have gotten a lot of attention. And for good reason: Not only are these glaciers melting…

Climate Change Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Earth’s Tropical Rainforests Could Look Completely Different By the End of the Century

How Two Environmental Changes Took Down the Most Powerful League in Medieval Europe

You Can Barely Even See Yosemite’s Largest Glacier Anymore

Bill Nye Explains Everything You Need to Know About Earth’s Changing Climate

How Three Countries Being Engulfed By The Ocean May Relocate To Survive

China’s New Carbon Pledge Puts the US Clean Power Plan to Shame

WWI and Climate Change Show How Bad We Are At Confronting Catastrophe

All the GOP Anti-Climate Change Arguments and Why They’re Wrong

Paris Is Covered In Fake Ads That Mock the Climate Talks’ Corporate Sponsors

7 Installations Protesting Climate Change In Paris, Even If Actual Protesters Can’t

How Much Carbon Will Be Emitted By People Travelling to the Paris Climate Talks?

We’re Spending the Next Two Weeks Envisioning Our Future Earth

Watch a Terrified Snail Hop Away From Danger

The Future of the Earth Will Be Decided This Week

Yet Another Study Finds The US Could Quit All Fossil Fuels By 2050

The Vicious Cycle Emerging Between War and Severe Weather Will Be Hard To Stop

The Reservoir That Made the World Pay Attention to California’s Drought

Biologists Saved Wyoming Toads From Extinction

How Much Rain Is El Niño Bringing? “One Storm After Another Like a Conveyor Belt”

These Fast-Melting Glaciers Could Change the World’s Coastlines Forever

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