Climate Change

Enormous, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Strike Tibet

When the first deadly avalanche struck the Aru Range in Tibet on July 17th, scientists were puzzled. But when a second enormous ice slide occurred just a few kilometers south and two months later, they were shocked. Two of the largest glacial avalanches on record have sent rock and ice spilling down a valley in…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

NASA Already Says 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record

It’s only October, but that doesn’t seem to matter: NASA is basically sure 2016 will go down as the hottest year in recorded history. Unless a rogue planet suddenly appears to fling the Earth off its present orbit and into the Kuiper Belt, we’re locked in. Welcome to life in a rapidly warming world. This…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

‘Single Most Important Step’ to Fight Climate Change Taken in Historic Agreement

Leaders from 170 countries agreed to a deal on Saturday that is being touted as more significant in the effort to fight climate change than last year’s Paris accords. This week’s meeting in Kigali, Rwanda ended with an agreement to cut the worldwide use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.…

Climate Change Rhett Jones

An Unusually Large Iceberg Broke Off a Glacier and Nobody Noticed

This past summer, a massive chunk of ice slipped away from a glacier in British Columbia, but no one was there to notice. Using satellite images, a scientist from NASA has now spotted the unusually large iceberg—and he suspects it’s the largest ever seen in North America. Glaciologist Mauri Pelto noticed the iceberg while analyzing…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

The Presidential Debate Topics For Next Week Don’t Even Mention The Possibility of an Earth-Cleansing Asteroid

The topics for next week’s presidential debate have just been announced. And they’re pretty grim. Depressingly, they don’t even mention the possibility of a sweet, sweet asteroid hitting Earth to finally put America out of its misery after 16 months of the worst election “season” in modern history. But a man can dream. Chris Wallace,…

Climate Change Matt Novak

How the World Could Actually Cure Its Fossil Fuel Addiction

Last week, the Paris climate agreement cleared its final hurdle, when the European Union formally signed on. With the support of 73 nations accounting for 57 percent of global carbon emissions, the deal enters legal force on November 4th. So what does that mean, and how soon do we kick our addiction to fossil fuels?…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Hey Future New Yorkers, Have Fun Paddling to Work

If you’re planning to live in the Big Apple for the foreseeable future, it’s time to invest in flood insurance and a gondola. A new study finds that nine-foot floods, like those produced by Hurricane Sandy, will be three to 17 times more frequent by the end of the century, thanks to sea level rise…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Actually, Ken Bone Is Bad

Last night, America met the 2016 election season’s newest star. Portly, crimson-clad, bespectacled, mustachioed, and just a little bit giddy, Kenneth Bone was catnip for the bored, half-drunk, miserable masses watching the debate. The internet couldn’t shut up about him, and the press followed suit. “The Ballad of Ken Bone,” the Atlantic mewled; “And the…

Climate Change Sophie Kleeman

Deadly Hurricane Matthew Is a Warning About Our Future

There is no doubt that Hurricane Matthew is a nightmarish storm. Unfortunately, it’s exactly the sort of nightmare that’s expected to become more familiar in a warmer world. A little over a week ago, Matthew was a nameless tropical depression. It didn’t cause much stir when it intensified into a tropical storm. But then, it…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

We Need to Start Dealing With This Hidden Source of Carbon Pollution

When it comes to planet-warming gases we need to worry about, carbon dioxide is at the top of the list. But the runner-up in the climate hall of infamy—methane—is turning out to be a bigger problem than we realized. A study published in Nature today estimates that global methane emissions from the oil and gas…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Scientists Just Discovered a Major New Source of Carbon Emissions

File this under bad news for humanity’s climate ambitions: The dams and reservoirs we use to harness ‘clean’ hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon. A lot of it. All told, man-made reservoirs release roughly a gigaton of heat-trapping greenhouse gases each year. That’s more than the entire nation of Canada. Scientists interested…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The Biggest Threat to NASA’s Future Is the Ocean

In October 2012, just a few days before Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, it was churning north past the narrow strip of white sand beach separating NASA’s most celebrated spaceport from the sea. For several days and nights, heavy storm surge pounded the shoreline, flattening dunes and blowing sand right up to the launchpads.…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Trump Just Denied Denying Climate Change

We’re not an hour into tonight’s most historic presidential debate, and Donald Trump is already telling boldfaced lies about his record on climate change. Apparently, he no longer remembers describing global warming as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. The internet, however, does. “Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese,”…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Don’t Worry, the Earth Is Not Locked into Ten Degrees of Warming

The internet is abuzz with a new climate study that seemed to deliver a bombshell conclusion: the amount of carbon humans have put into the atmosphere may have already committed the planet 3 to 7 degrees Celsius (5.4 to 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming. Three to 7 degrees Celsius is a big amount of…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Siberia Has Been Burning All Summer

As enormous wildfires in Canada and the United States make headlines on the daily, Siberia has been burning ferociously all summer, and nobody seems to be noticing. Large wildfires are not unusual in Siberia’s boreal forests, but in the past few years, this sparsely-populated region has seen some of the most intense summertime conflagrations in…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

These Tiny Fossils Do Not Bode Well For Antarctica’s Future

At the bottom of the world atop the forbidding Transantarctic Mountains sit the fossilized remains of microscopic, ocean-dwelling diatoms. For thirty years, scientists have argued over how these tiny algae came to rest thousands of feet above the sea. Now, sophisticated ice sheet models offer one of the best explanations yet—and it doesn’t bode well…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The Paris Climate Agreement Just Passed a Major Milestone

Good news, Earthlings: the Paris climate agreement had passed a critical milestone toward adoption. At a UN General Assembly meeting in New York this morning, 31 nations officially signed onto the accord, making it very likely that the deal will enter legal force this year. You may remember that the Paris agreement—an international pledge to…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Where We Will Grow Food After We Scorch the Earth

A relatively small number of crops make up a lot of the world’s diet. But, as the world gets hotter, the places that we’re able to grow these crops is moving. A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Birmingham looks into whether the places where we currently grow our…

Climate Change Ria Misra

SEC Starts Investigating Exxon’s Weird Accounting

When the price of oil plunges, as it has in the past two years, all of the largest oil companies in the world write down their losses. All, that is, except for one huge company. Exxon Mobil doesn’t write down the value of its oil reserves, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has…

Climate Change Matt Novak

Dramatic Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting

On September 10th, the Arctic hit its annual summertime ice minimum. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, it was the second lowest summertime low since satellite record-keeping began. And as a series of new visualizations show, this trend is not going anywhere. The Arctic is the fastest-warming region of our planet today,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Enormous, Mysterious Ice Avalanches Strike Tibet

NASA Already Says 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record

‘Single Most Important Step’ to Fight Climate Change Taken in Historic Agreement

An Unusually Large Iceberg Broke Off a Glacier and Nobody Noticed

The Presidential Debate Topics For Next Week Don’t Even Mention The Possibility of an Earth-Cleansing Asteroid

How the World Could Actually Cure Its Fossil Fuel Addiction

Hey Future New Yorkers, Have Fun Paddling to Work

Actually, Ken Bone Is Bad

Deadly Hurricane Matthew Is a Warning About Our Future

We Need to Start Dealing With This Hidden Source of Carbon Pollution

Scientists Just Discovered a Major New Source of Carbon Emissions

The Biggest Threat to NASA’s Future Is the Ocean

Trump Just Denied Denying Climate Change

Don’t Worry, the Earth Is Not Locked into Ten Degrees of Warming

Siberia Has Been Burning All Summer

These Tiny Fossils Do Not Bode Well For Antarctica’s Future

The Paris Climate Agreement Just Passed a Major Milestone

Where We Will Grow Food After We Scorch the Earth

SEC Starts Investigating Exxon’s Weird Accounting

Dramatic Visualizations Show Just How Quickly the Arctic Is Melting

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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