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Extreme Tornado Outbreaks Are Happening More Often Across the US

Tornadoes that come in bunches are on the rise in the United States, according to a new study. Though it might be tempting to blame climate change, scientists aren’t entirely sure what’s causing this troubling trend. From 1965 to 2015, the frequency of tornado outbreaks—that is, six or more tornadoes that occur in close succession—has…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

Huge Cracks In the West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Signal Its Collapse

Last year, a 225 square-mile chunk of West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier broke off and tumbled into the sea. Now, Earth scientists at Ohio State University have pinpointed the root cause of the iceberg calving event: a crack that started deep below ground and 20 miles inland. It’s like nothing scientists have witnessed in West…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

The Great Barrier Reef Just Suffered the Worst Die-Off Ever Seen

Abnormally high water temperatures caused by you-know-what are being blamed for the worst coral die-off ever recorded along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Earlier this year, scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence For Coral Reef Studies warned that the Reef is in big trouble, with about 35 percent of the coral in its northern and…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

Evolution Can’t Keep Up to the Blistering Pace of Climate Change

As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, species can adapt to changing environmental conditions through the trial-and-error process of natural selection. A discouraging new study shows that climate change is happening too fast for evolution to keep up, placing countless plant and animal species at risk. New research published in Proceedings of the Royal…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

Donald Trump: Maybe Humans Did the Climate Change After All

In a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Times today, Donald Trump finally admitted that, well, okay, maybe—maybe!—human activity might have something to do with our ever-warming planet. He did not, however, appear to care all that much about preventing further destruction to Earth. Instead, he took the opportunity to put capitalism…

Climate Change Sophie Kleeman

Elon Musk Explains How Trump Could Actually Help Tesla

Addressing concerns that the incoming Trump administration could threaten green businesses like Tesla, CEO Elon Musk assured shareholders on Thursday that eliminating zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) credits could actually improve the company’s competitive advantage. Trump, who once tweeted “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing…

Climate Change Eve Peyser

The Arctic Is Having a Scary Hot Flash

The Arctic was already having a rough fall, but things took a sharp turn into crazy town this week, with temperatures across much of the Arctic ocean measuring some 36 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) above normal. A report out by The Washington Post details the astonishingly spring-like weather gripping our planet’s far north, at…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Seabird Crap Could Help Save the Arctic

Seabird poop: good for ruining your picnic at the beach, and apparently good for keeping the Arctic cool, too. But if the birds want to stop their summertime home from melting away, they’re going to have to start taking laxatives. An intruiging new study in Nature Communications describes the hidden wonders of seabird poop, a…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

China on Donald Trump’s Claim It Invented Global Warming: Nah

Think back, if you will, to the halcyon days of 2012, when Donald Trump hadn’t yet strangled the presidency with his small, grubby orange hands. “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” he tweeted on November 6 of that year. Today—almost exactly four…

Climate Change Sophie Kleeman

80,000 Reindeer Reported Dead in Latest Christmas Setback

A pair of extreme weather events in 2006 and 2013 caused mass starvation among reindeer in Arctic Russia. Researchers have now linked these episodes to climate change and the associated loss of sea ice. A new paper published in Biology Letters points to global warming as the culprit behind tens of thousands of reindeer deaths…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

Global Carbon Emissions Are Stable For Third Year in a Row: Report

In a welcome reminder that not everything is terrible always, global carbon emissions barely grew at all in 2016. It marks the third year in a row that humanity’s carbon footprint has been stable. They’re still much higher than they should be, but at least they are stable. The very good news comes from the…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Trump Looking to Drop Paris Climate Accords ASAP

Donald Trump is a professional liar. Now that he is the President-elect with actual President-ing to do, he’s angling to make the United States a liar on the international stage. Citing an anonymous source from Trump’s transition team, Reuters reports that a major short-term priority is to weasel out of the Paris agreement to reduce…

Climate Change Rhett Jones

John Kerry Is Lucky Enough to See Antartica Before It Melts

John Kerry escaped to Antartica on Friday for a two-day trip, becoming the highest ranking US official to visit the melting continent. While Kerry did not comment on the new president-elect of the United States or on Trump’s belief that China created global warming, the Secretary of State warned that if you care about cutting…

Climate Change Eve Peyser

Don’t Give Up On the Planet

Welcome to the future. A future that me, and many Americans who put their faith in science, have been staring at in bewilderment, denial, and abject terror for the better part of a year. Donald J. Trump, a climate denier, is the 45th President of the United States. As such, he poses a unique, unprecedented…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Heroic Plants Are Working Overtime to Gobble Up Our Carbon Emissions

It isn’t enough to halt global warming, but carbon-hungry plants are helping impede the buildup of CO2 in our atmosphere to a measurable degree, a new study has found. While this is a good thing and you should go thank a tree right now, the effect is probably temporary, speaking to how damn complicated our…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Scientists: The Future Is Shit

Scientists recently developed a method to convert sewage into biocrude oil, so it appears that our future will quite literally be shit. According to a report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers converted poop to oil using a process called hydrothermal liquefaction. PNNL explains that hydrothermal liquefaction “mimics the geological conditions the Earth uses to…

Climate Change Eve Peyser

The Arctic Is Having a Very Bad Time

After shrinking to exceptionally low levels this summer, the Arctic’s shiny mantle of sea ice is finally starting to regrow. Way, way slower than it normally does. In September, Arctic sea ice hit its annual summertime minimum, dwindling to just 1.60 million square miles, the second-lowest extent since satellite record-keeping began. Now, as the northern…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

If Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate on PBS, Does It Make a Sound?

Continuing its proud tradition of supporting scientific inquiry, PBS conducted its own experiment this week, filming the Libertarian and Green Party candidates for president with no one to watch it and asking if it made a sound. The answer to that famous zen koan, it turns out, is “yes, a pretty boring one.” One potential…

Climate Change Hudson Hongo

These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting at a ‘Staggering’ Rate

On an forbidding shoreline at the bottom of the world, the prodigious ice sheets of West Antarctica dead-end in the Amundsen sea. For decades, scientists have been monitoring this interface of rock, ice and ocean, in order to understand how quickly it’ll retreat as the planet warms up. A new study shows that three of…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

US Court Says Animals Can Be Listed As Threatened if Climate Change Poses a Risk

In a groundbreaking precedent that will likely be felt for decades to come, a federal appeals court in the US has ruled that a species can be listed as “threatened” based on climate change projections. Earlier today, a three-judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court unanimously rejected an appeal launched by several oil company…

Climate Change George Dvorsky

Extreme Tornado Outbreaks Are Happening More Often Across the US

Huge Cracks In the West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Signal Its Collapse

The Great Barrier Reef Just Suffered the Worst Die-Off Ever Seen

Evolution Can’t Keep Up to the Blistering Pace of Climate Change

Donald Trump: Maybe Humans Did the Climate Change After All

Elon Musk Explains How Trump Could Actually Help Tesla

The Arctic Is Having a Scary Hot Flash

Seabird Crap Could Help Save the Arctic

China on Donald Trump’s Claim It Invented Global Warming: Nah

80,000 Reindeer Reported Dead in Latest Christmas Setback

Global Carbon Emissions Are Stable For Third Year in a Row: Report

Trump Looking to Drop Paris Climate Accords ASAP

John Kerry Is Lucky Enough to See Antartica Before It Melts

Don’t Give Up On the Planet

Heroic Plants Are Working Overtime to Gobble Up Our Carbon Emissions

Scientists: The Future Is Shit

The Arctic Is Having a Very Bad Time

If Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate on PBS, Does It Make a Sound?

These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting at a ‘Staggering’ Rate

US Court Says Animals Can Be Listed As Threatened if Climate Change Poses a Risk

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