Climate change

Days After Announcing Presidential Bid, Jay Inslee Stresses the ‘Enormous Costs’ of Climate Change

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced he’s running for president mere days ago, and he’s already going hard on the primary focus of his campaign: climate change. Speaking with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Inslee addressed the “huge cost to our economy, to our health, to our national security” if we as…

Climate Change Catie Keck Mar 3

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

When pundits, politicians, or advocates have talked about the need to reduce fossil fuel production to combat climate change, one of the most common rejoinders has been to appeal to that most central of American concerns—it creates a lot of jobs. Oil industry backers are often touting the notion that it creates lots of decent-paying…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant Feb 27

Fake FCC Comments, Shark DNA, and the Edge of Everything: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Hopefully your week has been better than leading New York politicians, like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo—both of whom are still dealing with the disastrous fallout from the failed deal to subsidize a new Amazon facility in Queens’s Long Island City neighborhood. (Adding insult to injury: de Blasio, who has…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 24

Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Ambassador, Once Said She Believed ‘Both Sides’ of Climate Change

President Donald Trump has announced that he will nominate Kelly Knight Craft to fill the role of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The president tweeted the announcement Friday, adding that Craft “has done an outstanding job representing our Nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at…

Earther Catie Keck Feb 23

How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis

In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to advance digital technology and automation in the oilfield,” according to the Houston Chronicle. Yet the partnership has…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant Feb 21

New Studies of Ancient Lava Add Mystery to the Dinosaur Extinction Story

Solidified lava from ancient volcanoes, over a mile thick, covers a portion of west-central India nearly the size of Texas. Contained in the dramatic and craggy striped rock are secrets scientists are only beginning to uncover—secrets that could partially rewrite the story of the dinosaur mass extinction 66 million years ago. Two teams have published…

Earth Science Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 21

Report: Trump Wants Guy Who Compared Climate Science to the Holocaust to Head Climate Panel

Donald Trump’s administration is assembling a panel to determine whether climate change—which scientific experts broadly agree poses an existential threat to the safety and well-being of the world’s population and is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases—is really a threat to national security. According to reports in the Washington Post and New York Times,…

Climate Change Tom McKay Feb 21

Tokyo Is Testing a New System to Detect ‘Guerilla’ Rain and Tornadoes Up to 30 Minutes in Advance

Officials in Tokyo are testing a new technology that utilizes weather radar and terrestrial digital radio waves to “quickly and precisely predict torrential rain and tornadoes” up to 20 to 30 minutes in advance, the Mainichi reported on Sunday. The new technology is being developed by “industry, government and academic bodies including the National Institute…

Earth Science Tom McKay Feb 17

Thousands of UK Students Skipped School Today to Demand Action on Climate Change

Kids in the U.K. skipped school Friday—all in the name of saving the world. Thousands of students in some 60 cities and towns are on strike, hitting the streets demanding that their governments move quickly to solve climate change. The protests, organized by the UK Student Climate Network, are part of a rapidly-growing global youth…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 15

Greenland’s Melt Will Drive Up Sea Levels…But Also Give Us Sand

Greenland is rapidly melting. Blame it on climate change. This is no good news, but a new paper points out an unexpected benefit as a result of all this lost ice: sand. The world is in need of sand—in part, to prepare for rising sea levels and strengthen coasts—and Greenland could play a major role…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Feb 11

Russian Authorities Declare State of Emergency After ‘Mass Invasion’ of Polar Bears in Remote Settlement

Russian authorities have declared a state of emergency in the remote, sparsely populated Novaya Zemlya islands in the Arctic Ocean, the BBC reported this weekend, after “dozens” of polar bears whose food sources are limited due to climate change started rooting through homes and other buildings near the settlement of Belushya Guba looking for something…

Earther Tom McKay Feb 10

Spooky New Photos Show the Alien Creatures of the Deep Ocean

The research vessel Falkor has recently completed a three-week mission off the coast of Costa Rica, during which it gathered data, discovered new species, and took more incredible pictures of the life at the ocean floor. Falkor is an oceanographic research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute that deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 7

AOC Just Dropped Her Green New Deal Proposal—Here’s What’s Inside

The first draft of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s hotly-anticipated Green New Deal proposal has finally arrived—and it’s demanding rapid action to confront the threat of climate change. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) are introducing a resolution Thursday that’s a first step toward making the idea of a Green New Deal reality, reports NPR.…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 7

Key West Votes to Ban Sunscreens That Harm Coral Reefs

Skincare aficionados and beachgoers alike may have to think twice before slathering on their favorite sunscreen if they’re headed to Key West, Florida. The city’s officially regulating what sunscreens are allowed in its waters—all in the name of saving its beloved coral reefs. The Key West City Commission voted 6-1 Tuesday to ban the sale…

Conservation Yessenia Funes Feb 6

America Had a Wet, Hot 2018

On Tuesday, NOAA and NASA released their much-anticipated analyses of global climate trends for 2018. As we expected, the agencies confirmed it was the fourth-warmest year on record for planet Earth. But the reports also highlighted just how striking a year it was for the U.S. specifically, with most of the country feeling the heat…

Earther Maddie Stone Feb 6

Michigan’s New Governor Issues Orders to Bring Justice to Flint

Rhonda Anderson has spent the last eight years feeling hopeless about environmental issues. As the regional organizer for the Sierra Club’s Detroit regional office, the environmental justice leader had little reason to feel otherwise—not under former Republican Governor Rick Snyder whose greatest legacy might be the Flint water crisis that exposed an entire city to…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Feb 5

Climate Change Is Causing Earth’s Oceans to Change Color

Climate change is turning the planet into something alien. As a striking case in point, a new study predicts that the surface color of at least half of the world’s oceans will change by the end of the 21st century. This alchemy will be driven by phytoplankton; surface-drifting, sunlight-gobbling microbes that form the base of…

Earther Robin George Andrews Feb 4

Students Are Preparing for the First Major U.S. Climate Strike Next Month

Alexandria Villasenor doesn’t remember a world without climate change. When she was eight, Folsom Lake, the reservoir practically in her backyard in Davis, dried up amidst California’s epic drought. She peered at the dead fish on its former shores and felt her anxiety about the future start to grow. The 13 year old has since…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn Feb 1

January Was Officially Australia’s Hottest Month Ever

Australia had an intense January, complete with heat waves, wildfires, jelly invasions, and seriously sweaty nights. So it comes as no surprise to learn that January 2019 was officially the country’s hottest month ever recorded. The Bureau of Meteorology announced this new record Friday. Across Australia, the mean January temperature across Australia averaged above 30…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Feb 1

An ‘Unprecedented’ Epidemic Is Wiping Out the West Coast’s Sea Stars

In 2013, marine scientists witnessed a real-life, aquatic version of Contagion. Over the summer, divers in Monterey, California were treated to a horror scene of sea stars with limbs torn asunder and bodies disintegrating. Soon, major aquariums up and down the West Coast reported their sea stars went from paragons of health to dead in…

Conservation Brian Kahn Jan 30

Days After Announcing Presidential Bid, Jay Inslee Stresses the ‘Enormous Costs’ of Climate Change

Automation Is Coming for the Oil Jobs, Too

Fake FCC Comments, Shark DNA, and the Edge of Everything: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Ambassador, Once Said She Believed ‘Both Sides’ of Climate Change

How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis

New Studies of Ancient Lava Add Mystery to the Dinosaur Extinction Story

Report: Trump Wants Guy Who Compared Climate Science to the Holocaust to Head Climate Panel

Tokyo Is Testing a New System to Detect ‘Guerilla’ Rain and Tornadoes Up to 30 Minutes in Advance

Thousands of UK Students Skipped School Today to Demand Action on Climate Change

Greenland’s Melt Will Drive Up Sea Levels…But Also Give Us Sand

Russian Authorities Declare State of Emergency After ‘Mass Invasion’ of Polar Bears in Remote Settlement

Spooky New Photos Show the Alien Creatures of the Deep Ocean

AOC Just Dropped Her Green New Deal Proposal—Here’s What’s Inside

Key West Votes to Ban Sunscreens That Harm Coral Reefs

America Had a Wet, Hot 2018

Michigan’s New Governor Issues Orders to Bring Justice to Flint

Climate Change Is Causing Earth’s Oceans to Change Color

Students Are Preparing for the First Major U.S. Climate Strike Next Month

January Was Officially Australia’s Hottest Month Ever

An ‘Unprecedented’ Epidemic Is Wiping Out the West Coast’s Sea Stars

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