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Watch a massive haboob engulf southern Arizona towns
Jesse Watson captured this perfectly-timed footage of a massive dust cloud roiling across the Arizona desert at sunset. (more…)
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Watch this coagulant make dirty water drinkable
PolyGlu is used by aid workers to force impurities in water to settle at the bottom of a container, making the water safer for drinking in areas where water is scarce or polluted. (more…)
View ArticleHurricane Florence in 3D, as seen by NASA's MISR onboard the Terra satellite
Get your red-blue 3D glasses out. NASA today shares a stunning stereo anaglyph 3-D image of Hurricane Florence, captured from the MISR instrument flying on-board the Terra satellite, which carries nine...
View ArticleIPCC climate report is most urgent yet
The UN's International Panel on Climate Change is an interdisciplinary expert body comprised of leading scientists who study climate change; they issue periodic reports summarizing the best...
View ArticleClimate change is AWOL in America's political debates
There is no political issue more pressing than the official inaction on climate change. With time running out to avert hundreds of millions of deaths and global migration, food, disease, and water...
View ArticleInteractive sea level viewer shows what will happen to America's beaches
Gone, obviously. Tom Scocca: Using our advanced technology, it is possible to look up the beaches in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sea Level Rise Viewer, and to imagine what...
View ArticleClimate change will make beer much more expensive
Over the next century, higher temperatures and an increased number of droughts will hit the global barley supply, pushing beer prices way up. University of East Anglia economist Dabo Guan and his...
View ArticleSlaves - including children - make the bricks for Cambodia's housing bubble
Two bedroom apartments in Phnom Penh start at $260,000 -- equivalent to 2,000 years' worth of average annual wages for Cambodia's workers. But the bricks being used to construct housing in Cambodia's...
View ArticleExtreme weather has caused Japan cherry blossoms to bloom in fall, when it's...
People flock to Japan in the spring in hopes of catching the cherry blossom season, which, in full bloom, lasts only about a week. This usually happens in April (although a bit earlier or later...
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I’m suing the U.S. government for causing the climate change crisis #YouthVGov
My name is Kelsey Juliana and I’m suing the United States government for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been a climate advocate for more than half of my...
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California Fires: 83% of Santa Monica Mountains federal parkland burned by...
In addition to destroying hundreds of homes and claiming human lives, the Woolsey Fire that began last Thursday burned 83% of federal park land in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area,...
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California Fires: Why doesn't cable news cover them as much as East Coast...
It's not your imagination. The big cable news networks like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox pay way more attention to hurricanes and extreme weather on the east coast than they do to major firestorms in...
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Pantone chose this 'life-affirming' shade as 2019's Color of the Year
In 2019, we'll move out of Ultra Violet and into Living Coral, according to the Pantone Color Institute. Their color experts have determined that their Color of the Year will be the "vibrant, yet...
View Article1,500 private jets coming to Davos
Even though jet travel is a major contributor to global warming, the pluto-kakisto-klepto-cracy coming to the World Economic Forum in Davos will arrive in an estimated 1,500 private jets. One of the...
View ArticleTrump picks former oil lobbyist David Bernhardt to run U.S. Interior Department
They're just gonna drill everything they can while Trump's in power, aren't they. Donald Trump tweeted on Monday, “David has done a fantastic job from the day he arrived, and we look forward to having...
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Manhattan-sized hole opens up under Antarctic glacier
A massive cavity so large you could fit New York City inside of it has opened up under Thwaites glacier in Antarctica. Scientists say if it collapses, as it's likely to do within the next 50 to 100...
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NOAA says 2018 was 4th warmest year on record, in an undeniable global...
2018 was the fourth warmest year ever recorded on planet Earth, NOAA reported today. “Earth’s long-term warming trend continued in 2018 as persistent warmth across large swaths of land and ocean...
View Article#JoinJuliana: Kids suing U.S. government over climate change need your help
The Juliana v. US youth plaintiffs need your help. To support their lawsuit against the federal government for causing climate change, these young climate warriors need Americans under the age of 25 to...
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UN partnership backs "floating city" research
Floating communities aren't just for libertarian billionaires looking for places to do things they might not otherwise get away with. A UN partnership is looking into whether they could be part of a...
View ArticleThe Pinkertons' plan for climate change: a mercenary army that guards...
The Pinkertons rose to notoriety as a vicious army of mercenary strikebreakers who beat and murdered working people who stood up to robber barons like Andrew Carnegie; now they are a division of...
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