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Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

Earth Science Gayoung Lee Dec 3

Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Weather Forecasters and Other NOAA Employees

About 10% of the NOAA workforce was laid off, according to some reports, in a move that could kneecap the agency's ability to forecast local and national weather events.

Earth Science Isaac Schultz Feb 28

A stand of dead trees in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone’s Standing Dead Trees Are a Wildfire Disaster Waiting to Happen, Scientists Warn

A spatial analysis of the park's trees revealed its vulnerability to wildfires, especially near infrastructure.

Earth Science Isaac Schultz Jan 9

Severe Pollution Is Slowing Down Warming in Major Cities

But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign.

Climate Change Lylla Younes, Grist Dec 14

A stretch of ground suffering severe drought.

AI Model Indicates Global Temperatures Will Rise Faster Than Expected

Ten climate models and a machine learning approach offer an alarming new timeline for the rate of climate change.

Climate Change Isaac Schultz Dec 10

Global Catastrophe Looms as Key Ocean Current Nears Collapse, Experts Warn

While there have been signs the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has slowed, it could soon stop altogether. That would be very, very bad.

Climate Change Adam Kovac Oct 23

The World Will Be Nearly 6 Degrees Hotter Unless It Invests in a Green Recovery

A new United Nations report—yeah, another one—warns that the world is on track to exceed the level of global warming laid out in the Paris Agreement. But a green recovery plan to handle the fallout of the covid-19 pandemic could significantly improve our future odds of survival. Since the beginning of widespread industrial development, the…

Earther Dharna Noor Dec 9

Cold War Nuclear Testing May Have Caused Extra Rain Around the World

A new study has found that nuclear radiation during Cold War-era weapons testing could have induced significant short-term changes in the amount of rainfall far across the globe.. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Weather is just an extremely complex physics experiment, with tons of variables that are hard of keep track…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 13

Today’s Extreme Floods Could Happen Daily by 2100

The U.S. is already facing a flooding crisis as sea-level rise pushes tides ever higher. But it’s only going to get worse with flood risk doubling every five years in the coming decades, according to a new study. That means floods that used to happen once in a person’s lifetime occur every year or even…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Apr 16

Alaska Automated Its Weather Stations and Created a Snow Data Disaster

Twice a day at National Weather Service Offices nationwide, personnel release weather balloons to measure atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed. In Nome, Alaska, Bob TenEyck or his partner would do that at 3 a.m., a few hours after measuring the snow depth and snowfall. For 112 years, these snow measurements in Nome were…

Climate Change Ian Graber-Stiehl Mar 25

This Was the Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite

Scientific warnings about the risks of unchecked global warming have reached a crescendo in the past couple of years, with urgent messages from researchers on social media, in congressional testimony, and even directly in the text of research papers. The trend of sharper warnings and strong calls for climate action in peer-reviewed studies is reinforcing…

Earther Bob Berwyn Dec 31

Prehistoric Humans Built a Wall to Keep Out the Sea—But It Failed

A 7,000-year-old seawall has been discovered off the Israeli coast, and it’s now the oldest-known defense against rising sea levels. The seawall eventually failed, and the village had to be abandoned, in what’s serving as an ominous lesson from the past. The Tel Hreiz archaeological site is located off the Carmel coast of Israel and…

Human History George Dvorsky Dec 19

Ten Years After Climategate, the Scientists Have Won—But What About the Rest of the World?

Looking back at 2009, it was one of the most consequential years in climate and not in a good way. The climate talks in Copenhagen that year were supposed to yield comprehensive climate accords. Instead, they ended in a puddle of failure only to be slightly redeemed six years later in Paris. One of the…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Nov 20

Google Is Funding Climate Change Denialism

Despite all its evidently performative public-facing climate change initiatives, Google is forking over “substantial” contributions to denier organizations and events. A report from the Guardian published Friday revealed that the tech company is contributing to more than a dozen organizations that have questioned the need for action or pushed back against climate regulations and legislation.…

Climate Change Catie Keck Oct 11

Don’t Go Looking for Geoengineering Info on YouTube—It’s Mostly Lies, Study Finds

If you’re trying to understand geoengineering, don’t go looking for answers on YouTube. A new study suggests that conspiracy theorists dominate the site when it comes to certain scientific terms. Published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Communication, the study found that fewer than half of videos found on the site when searching terms related…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Jul 25

Trump Both Sides-es Climate Change

There are many things where there are two (or more!) sides to the story. Nazis is not one of them. Neither is climate change. And yet, here we are. On Wednesday, noted Donald Trump butt muncher Piers Morgan interviewed, well, Donald Trump. To Morgan’s credit, he asked Trump once again about his climate change views.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jun 5

Trump Climate Advisor Compared ‘Demonization of Carbon Dioxide’ to Hitler’s Treatment of Jews in Bizarre Interview

The New York Times published a shocking article over the Memorial Day long weekend about the Trump regime’s dangerous policies on climate change. But one quote in the article really stuck out: “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” said the physicist, William Happer, who serves…

Climate Change Matt Novak May 28

Four Things That Could Kill Us Before the Cloud Apocalypse Does

If you read the news on Monday, you may have heard people freaking out about how climate change is finally coming for the clouds. A study released in Nature Geoscience chronicles how stratocumulus clouds, those low hanging clouds that lend themselves well to daydreaming, could one day disappear if we keep emitting carbon. Their disappearance…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Feb 26

Melting Chunks of Greenland Are Bringing Londoners Face-to-Face With Climate Change

LONDON, ENGLAND—Any Londoners walking past their city’s famous Tate Modern art gallery this month found it difficult not to stop and stare at a new addition to its courtyard: huge chunks of ice, harvested from the shores of Greenland, had conspicuously materialized. Appearing on December 11, these 24 icebergs, gleaming with characteristic white-blue brilliance, have…

Climate Change Robin George Andrews Dec 21

New House Science Committee Chair to Climate Scientists: We’ve Got Your Back Again

Change is in the air over at the House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology. An oozing sump of climate change skepticism under the leadership of Texas Republican Lamar Smith, the committee is poised to be taken over by Democrats and led by Texas’s Eddie Bernice Johnson, a registered nurse and longtime champion of science…

Earther Maddie Stone Dec 10

climate science

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Weather Forecasters and Other NOAA Employees

Yellowstone’s Standing Dead Trees Are a Wildfire Disaster Waiting to Happen, Scientists Warn

Severe Pollution Is Slowing Down Warming in Major Cities

AI Model Indicates Global Temperatures Will Rise Faster Than Expected

Global Catastrophe Looms as Key Ocean Current Nears Collapse, Experts Warn

The World Will Be Nearly 6 Degrees Hotter Unless It Invests in a Green Recovery

Cold War Nuclear Testing May Have Caused Extra Rain Around the World

Today’s Extreme Floods Could Happen Daily by 2100

Alaska Automated Its Weather Stations and Created a Snow Data Disaster

This Was the Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite

Prehistoric Humans Built a Wall to Keep Out the Sea—But It Failed

Ten Years After Climategate, the Scientists Have Won—But What About the Rest of the World?

Google Is Funding Climate Change Denialism

Don’t Go Looking for Geoengineering Info on YouTube—It’s Mostly Lies, Study Finds

Trump Both Sides-es Climate Change

Trump Climate Advisor Compared ‘Demonization of Carbon Dioxide’ to Hitler’s Treatment of Jews in Bizarre Interview

Four Things That Could Kill Us Before the Cloud Apocalypse Does

Melting Chunks of Greenland Are Bringing Londoners Face-to-Face With Climate Change

New House Science Committee Chair to Climate Scientists: We’ve Got Your Back Again

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