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Eunice Newton Foote: The forgotten scientist who discovered the greenhouse...
Today we are all too familiar with the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but almost 170 years ago, an American woman gave us a distant early warning that went unnoticed. Eunice Newton...
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Let them eat snake: python farming an "efficient" food source
Scientists are encouraging us to further assert our dominance in the food chain by eating pythons. Raising livestock is an ecologically taxing process, with conventional farming. Cows, pigs, all the...
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Can chickpeas and date seeds save you from the looming coffee apocalypse?
There's been a lot written the last few years about the impending demise of coffee. Climate change is making bean growing tougher and tougher while demand is soaring. People love their java. And as we...
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Magenta is the color of danger in new climate change heat risk chart
Step aside, color red, there's a new, scariest hue in town. This Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control announced a new, color-coded heat risk system. And the worst...
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Climate scientists thinking twice about getting pregnant
All (normal) people recognize climate change is coming and it's going to seriously alter the way pretty much everyone lives. I've often wondered if people are going to stop choosing to have kids —...
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Panama evacuating densely-populated islands as sea levels rise
Gardi Sugdub, population 1,171, is a densely-populated island off the coast of Panama. Facing the prospect of catastrophic inundation, the government is eminent-domaining the whole thing and evacuating...
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Google's AI search summaries use 10x more energy than just doing a normal...
It seems like every company in the world right now is eager to push their large-language modeling algorithms as a brilliant innovation in the realm of generative general artificial intelligence. That...
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Hurricane Beryl is historic in all the worst ways
Hurricane Beryl formed as a tropical storm Saturday night in the North Atlantic. It has been breaking records ever since. It took #Beryl 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a major hurricane,...
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Bizarre: Severe flight turbulence launches passenger into overhead bin —...
If it's not a malfunctioning Boeing plane sending passengers to the hospital these days, it's turbulence — and the most recent injurious flight due to a strong jostling launched one passenger straight...
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Gov. Abbott pulls a "Cancun Cruz," boasting about Asia trip while Hurricane...
As Hurricane Beryl hit Texas this morning, leaving 1.5 million people without power, Gov. Greg Abbott was nowhere to be seen — at least not in Texas. In fact, as he boasted on X, he is in South Korea,...
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AI's energy draw adds to global climate issues
AI is chewing up so much energy it its putting goals for climate change initiatives out of reach. Google and Microsoft's futures are tied up in AI, and the power use is daunting. Google's recently...
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Air New Zealand drops climate goals
Air New Zealand is the first major carrier to drop its climate goals, reports the BBC. Air New Zealand has abandoned a 2030 goal to cut its carbon emissions, blaming difficulties securing more...
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Phoenix records 100 days straight of temperatures over 100F
This week, Phoenix, Arizona, set a new heat record. Tuesday marked the 100th straight day where the temperature reached at least 100 degrees. The previous record, 76 days in a row, was set in 1993, and...
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Neotoddlerism: Political activism through temper tantrums
"The ease with which dramatic behavior gets attention online has convinced many political activists that a better world doesn't require years of patient work, only a sufficient quantity of drama,"...
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Beef-obsessed bros causing crucial climate catastrophes
Over at NPR, writer Julia Simon recently explored the gender dynamics as it relates to climate change. Specifically, how beef is disproportionately responsible for meat-related carbon emissions and how...
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Watch: 3rd house collapses into ocean in North Carolina due to "strong winds,...
A third house collapsed on the shore of Rodanthe, North Carolina yesterday after two others fell apart on Friday. And it is the ninth home to collapse in the area since 2020. Footage shows a pair of...
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Watch powerful waves break into windows and flood home, reportedly in Florida...
Ring camera footage circulating online shows powerful waves crashing into the living room of a someone's house — breaking through large windows to do so — allegedly in Florida, where Hurricane Helene...
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Actual climate scientists debunk Marjorie Taylor Greene's weather-related...
Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again pushing conspiracy theories, to nobody's surprise. On October 3, 2024, MTG posted on the site formerly known as Twitter: "Yes they can control the weather. It's...
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Extreme heat mutates cute baby on Japanese shop sign into horrifying...
A Japanese clothing store has become a tourist attraction for horror fans after the cute baby on its sign morphed into a terrifying demon-child. The baby, adorning the front of Nagahama City's Hangai...
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Florida officials give residents dire warning ahead of Milton: "THIS IS YOUR...
As Hurricane Milton barrels its way towards Florida, officials warn residents in its path to "GET OUT NOW." "This is a very serious situation and residents in Florida should closely follow orders from...
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Green space now covers nearly 5 square miles of Antarctica
Antarctica has been greening really, really fast, according to a recently published article in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience. The new research presents a meta-analysis of Landsat images from...
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Sinkhole swallows entire car — along with passengers — on highway in Italy...
A major sinkhole spread across both sides of a highway in southern Italy today, swallowing up a car along with its passengers in the process. The hole opened up in the Calabria region after a storm of...
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Mount Fuji snowless in November for first time in recorded history
When you think of Japan's iconic Mount Fuji, you probably think of it with its winter snowcap. It's not there in summer—and for the first time in 130 years of recorded history, it remains bare into...
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19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change
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Watch Duty: the free wildfire alert app saving lives in California
When John Mills got caught in the path of California's Wallbridge Fire in 2020, the off-the-grid tech entrepreneur realized the chaos of trying to gather critical wildfire information could be deadly....
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2018 essay: "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn"
Malibu mansions face the same statistical certainty of burning as inner-city tenements, yet receive vastly different levels of protection and support. As the late Mike Davis argued in his 2018 analysis...
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We've officially passed the 1.5° global warming limit we've been warned about...
A decade ago, I had the privilege of attending and reporting from COP21 in Paris—the year of the so-called "Paris Agreement" was put into place. As I wrote at the time: We know the overall climate is...
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Here's a plan to detonate the world's largest H-bomb to end global warming —...
You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new proposal suggests using the world's largest-ever nuclear explosion — buried...
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"Into the Unbeing" offers 80s-style sci-fi horror for the climate change era
Into The Unbeing is a new comic series from writers Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman which centers on a group of rogue climate scientists as they stumble upon … something … in the Australian outback....
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DOJ crisis deepens as veteran prosecutor refuses climate fund freeze
Looks like somebody's not a team player! Denise Cheung — described by Reuter's as "the top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's office — just...
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