Australia Just Experienced Its Hottest Night Ever
Australia’s heat wave isn’t slowing down. The Land Down Under broke records late last year with temperatures spiking 11…
A Major TV Network Managed to Cover Climate Change for an Hour Without Devolving Into a Shitshow
On the last Sunday of 2018, Meet the Press, NBC’s hour-long Sunday morning news show, did something unprecedented. It…
Alexa Snooping, Robot Takeovers, and FBI Surveillance: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
The holidays are nigh, and this year’s naughty list is long indeed—and from revelations of reckless privacy violations…
Permafrost Melt Could Destroy a Third of All Arctic Infrastructure, Affecting as Many as 4 Million People
All the glue that has held the Arctic together for millennia is being dissolved by climate change, right down to the…
Oil Allies Refuse to Welcome Key Scientific Report at UN Climate Talks
In what is likely an unsurprising but no less troubling move, the oil alliance between Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia,…
A Daily Caller Article Gave the EPA Ammo to Lie About the National Climate Assessment
The Environmental Protection Agency press shop was an abomination under Scott Pruitt. And it’s not much better under…
Trump's Latest Talking Points on Climate Change Will Make Your Brain Hurt So Bad
Last week, federal scientists released their damning new National Climate Assessment, which warned that if action is…
TV News Allowed Republicans to Spew Unchecked Denial About Major New Climate Report
The Trump administration put out a major report on Black Friday warning of the deleterious effects climate change will…
Victory: A Climate Change Denier Will No Longer Run the House Science Committee
However you feel about the outcome of last night’s election, if you care about evidence-based policymaking, there’s one…
Human Carbon Emissions Are Dissolving the Ocean Floor
It seems humanity isn’t just content to screw up the surface of the planet. We’re gonna do the deep ocean, too.
The Very Base of the Arctic Food Chain Is Being Transformed
Thanks to climate change, the Arctic is becoming a deeply weird place from polar bears chowing down on whale carcasses…
Here’s Where the Post-Apocalyptic Water Wars Will Be Fought
A United Nations report published last week said we have about a decade to get climate change under control,…
UN Launches International Commission to Help Earthlings Adapt to Climate Change
To address climate change, we’ve got two options. We can reduce our carbon pollution, and we can adapt to changes we’re…
As the World Burns, Republicans Remind Us Climate Change Denial Is Alive and Well
Last week was a wild climate ride, from a landmark special report saying we basically have a decade to get our act…
The Economist Who Made the World Consider the Cost of Climate Change Just Won a Nobel Prize
For the first time ever, an economist studying the impacts of climate change has been honored with a Nobel prize.
We Have a Decade to Prevent a Total Climate Disaster
By 2030, we as a collective 7 billion humans will know our fate, or at the very least, the fate of the most vulnerable…
Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
Climate change? Bad. Wind farms to fight climate change? Maybe...also bad?
Trump Administration Warns Earth Will Warm 7 Degrees, Promptly Ignores That Warning
The internet is abuzz with a shocking revelation the Washington Post shared this morning: The Trump administration used…
Climate Change Worsened 2017's Hurricane Season From Hell, Study Finds
We’re still living with the impacts of the 2017 hurricane season from Puerto Ricans living in hotels to the president…
Climate Change Is Hitting National Parks Twice as Hard as the Rest of the US
National parks have been dubbed America’s best idea. But it turns out the the crown jewels of our country are…