Climate

In Pictures: China Is Enveloped In Thick and Dangerous Smog

Beijing is currently choking on a thick smog, with air pollution in the city over 20 times the safe levels defined by the World Health Organisation. This is what it looks like. As the world’s governments gather in Paris to decide the future of our planet, there’s an all too obvious reminder of pollution hanging…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 1

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 Nov 30

Watch 25 Years of Glacier Movement in Under a Second

Ever wondered just how much glaciers move over the decades? Well, this gid shows 25 years of motion of glaciers on the Karakoram mountain range of Asia in just 0.7 seconds. Created by Frank Paul, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, the gif uses images taken by three different USGS/NASA Landsat satellites,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 26

2015 Is Set To Be the Warmest Year on Record

The World Meteorological Organization has announced that, according to the data it’s collected so far this year, 2015 looks let to have the highest global average surface temperature on record. In report published this morning, the Organization points out that it expects the temperature reach a symbolic high that is 1° Celsius above those recorded…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 25

A Fossil Tropical Forest Is Helping Solve an Ancient Climate Mystery

A team of scientists has unearthed the fossil remnants of a tropical forest on the arctic island of Svalbard, and it could help explain one of the most dramatic climate shifts in Earth’s history. The fossil forest—stumps of lycopod trees that reached heights of about 13 feet—dates back to the late Devonian period some 380…

Tech News Maddie Stone Nov 21

This Year’s Godzilla El Niño Could Be the Worst Ever Recorded

We already knew the Godzilla Cthulhu Sauron El Niño of 2015 was gonna be bad. But exactly how bad are we talking? According to the World Meteorological Organization, this year’s El Niño ranks among the three strongest of the past 70 years, and it may become the most powerful El Niño ever recorded. One sign…

Tech News Maddie Stone Nov 18

The UK Is Shutting Down All Its Coal Power Stations

The British Government has announced that it plans to shut down all of its coal-powered fire stations by 2025, with restrictions put on their use as early as 2023. The UK’s 15 remaining coal power stations currently account for 28 percent of the nation’s energy production. The country’s Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 18

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 Nov 13

A Weird Side-Effect Of the Wildfire Surge Is Putting 65 Million Acres of Forest At Risk

Wildfires are becoming bigger, wilder, hotter, and faster, and that’s a big risk to forests. But it’s not the fire itself that’s the latest threat to these forests–but something strange that’s happened as a result of them. The Forest Service just released its new Restoration Report, revealing that they’ve been so occupied with trying to…

Climate Change Ria Misra Nov 10

World’s Biggest Coal Company Has Been Lying About Climate Change, Surprising No-One

A two-year investigation into Peabody Energy has concluded something that two minutes with Google could probably tell you: the coal giant has been telling some big fat lies about climate change. Following a multi-year investigation, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (previously star of such hits as Investigating Airbnb and That Time Exxon Lied) has…

Climate Change Chris Mills Nov 9

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Hit High, Likely to Become ‘Permanent Reality’

A new bulletin from the World Meteorological Organization reports that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high in 2014 that could become a ‘permanent reality.’ The bulletin explains that the atmospheric concentrations of CO2 has reached 397.7 parts per million (ppm) in 2014—close to the (largely symbolic) 400ppm…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 9

Obama Rejects Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

After seven years of political wrangling, President Obama has finally rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a proposed infrastructure project that would have carried 800,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast. The announcement comes weeks before a historic climate conference in Paris, at which world leaders are…

Tech News Maddie Stone Nov 6

El Niño’s Algae Blob From Hell Is Poisoning Seafood

This summer, we learned that a warm blob of ocean water across the Eastern Pacific was feeding a massive algal bloom all the way up and down the West Coast from Alaska to California. At the time, officials voiced concerns about domoic acid, a potentially lethal neurotoxin secreted by one of the dominant bloom species.…

Tech News Maddie Stone Nov 5

Bill Gates Says Our Energy System Is Broken And He’s Giving $2 Billion To Fix It

Infectious diseases like polio and malaria might be gone in 15 years because the founder of Microsoft devoted a foundation to eradicating them. Now Bill Gates has turned his attention towards our global energy crisis, which he thinks can also be fixed with better R&D. And, yes, he’s going to fund it. In an interview…

Climate Change Alissa Walker Nov 4

Look On This Map of First Snowfalls Across America, Ye Mighty, and Despair

A glorious, glorious heatwave is keeping most of the US toasty right now, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says we’re all living in denial—winter is coming, and it has a data visualization to prove it. Deke Arndt, the Climate Monitoring Branch Chief at the NOAA, put together this harrowing little piece of data…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 4

China Burns a Lot More Coal Than It’s Claimed in the Past

It’s come to light that China has been burning up to 17 percent more coal than its Government has previously claimed — pumping up to 1 billion more tons of carbon than expected into the atmosphere every year. The figures, which come ahead of the international climate talks to be held in Paris at the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 4

The Way That Mushrooms Bring the Rain Will Astound You

If you’re still lukewarm on the idea of parachuting in a bunch of beavers to California to end the drought, here’s another option: mushrooms. In forests across the world, Earth’s decomposers are helping seed clouds and promote rainstorms. That’s the conclusion of a study published this week in PLOS ONE, which adds a fascinating layer…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 29

Planting Trees Could Save Britain’s Stream Habitats

Protecting Britain’s river ecosystems could be as simple as planting more trees along riverbanks to provide cooling shade and, according to new research, an important energy boost for life in the stream. Plant and animal species around the world are struggling to keep up with rising temperatures, and the cool-water ecosystems in Britain’s rivers are…

Climate Change Kiona Smith-Strickland Oct 25

Last Month Was the Hottest September in Recorded History

Here we go again, folks! July was the hottest July on record, August the hottest August, so I bet you can’t fathom what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has to say about the September that closed out the hottest summer on record. You guessed it! This week, NOAA gave us its monthly state-of-the-climate report,…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Oct 24

This is What the Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever Recorded Looked Like From Space

Yesterday, NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Patricia, the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured, and captured this stunning image in infrared. Hurricane Patricia made landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico last night, and was downgraded to a tropical storm earlier this morning. The storm is remarkable not only in terms of how…

Tech News Maddie Stone Oct 24

In Pictures: China Is Enveloped In Thick and Dangerous Smog

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

Watch 25 Years of Glacier Movement in Under a Second

2015 Is Set To Be the Warmest Year on Record

A Fossil Tropical Forest Is Helping Solve an Ancient Climate Mystery

This Year’s Godzilla El Niño Could Be the Worst Ever Recorded

The UK Is Shutting Down All Its Coal Power Stations

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

A Weird Side-Effect Of the Wildfire Surge Is Putting 65 Million Acres of Forest At Risk

World’s Biggest Coal Company Has Been Lying About Climate Change, Surprising No-One

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Hit High, Likely to Become ‘Permanent Reality’

Obama Rejects Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

El Niño’s Algae Blob From Hell Is Poisoning Seafood

Bill Gates Says Our Energy System Is Broken And He’s Giving $2 Billion To Fix It

Look On This Map of First Snowfalls Across America, Ye Mighty, and Despair

China Burns a Lot More Coal Than It’s Claimed in the Past

The Way That Mushrooms Bring the Rain Will Astound You

Planting Trees Could Save Britain’s Stream Habitats

Last Month Was the Hottest September in Recorded History

This is What the Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever Recorded Looked Like From Space

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