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Polar bear got lost in Russia, hundreds of miles from home [video, photo]
Villagers in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula were stunned this week by the sight of an exhausted-looking polar bear wandering around (and on top of!) their homes, scavenging for food, hundreds...
View ArticleNYC adopts law targeting the handful of skyscrapers that are spiking the...
New York City's just-passed Climate Mobilization Act rolls up six climate-mitigation laws that comprehensively remake the city's approach to climate change (it's colloquially known as the Green New...
View ArticlePompeo: Arctic ice melting means 'new opportunities for trade’
Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday gave a speech in which he praised the Arctic region's rapidly shrinking sea ice for all the economic opportunities the melting waterways present to...
View ArticleBeto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone...
Jeff Berman's got a new job! The former Obama/Clinton staffer is now Beto O'Rourke's senior advisor, having moved laterally from his post-Obama-campaign career working for the DC lobbyists Bryan Cave,...
View ArticleIndia's 6th largest city just ran out of water
In southern India, the four main water reservoirs for the city of Chennai (once known as Madras) have reportedly run completely dry. Chennai is the sixth largest city in India. "Only rain can save...
View ArticleHailstorm carpets parts of Guadalajara in a 1.5m layer of ice
Yesterday, Guadalajara's 30'C heatwave broke suddenly when, at 1:50AM, the nighttime temperature suddenly plunged from 22C to 14C, causing small, sub-1cm hailstones to form and fall in great...
View ArticleEurope just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history
Here in Alberta, Canada, it's been a frigging miserable summer so far: cold, full of rain and precious little sun. For weeks, I've been mumbling under my breath, in tooth-grinding resentment, that I...
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As Amazon burns, Trump wants to log world’s largest intact temperate...
Illegitimate, popular-vote-losing president Donald J. Trump, just yesterday: “I’m an environmentalist. A lot of people don’t understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most...
View ArticleErrol Morris and Bob Odenkirk team up to "capture the absurdity and the...
Director Errol Morris made a bunch of darkly funny 30-second spots about climate change starring Bob Odenkirk. From his director's statement: I have never had any trouble believing in climate change,...
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Hurricane Dorian: satellite images show Grand Bahama mostly underwater
Satellite monitoring company ICEYE composed this image, based upon satellite shots of the storm-drenched Bahamas, which shows how much of Grand Bahama went underwater as Hurricane Dorian arrived. The...
View ArticleHasan Minhaj roasts Justin Trudeau on climate hypocrisy
If Vladimir Putin didn't convince you that good pecs and hair do not qualify you to govern, I give you Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime ministerial princeling whose years in office have proven that...
View ArticleCalifornia sues Trump over climate-warming tailpipe emissions rollback
California and 23 other states are suing to stop the Trump administration's shocking legal reversal of states' authority to set their own rules on climate-warming tailpipe emissions. Proud to be in...
View ArticleFlorida GOP finally admits that maybe they shouldn't have banned the phrase...
Climate change is real. The state of Florida is particularly susceptible to its effects, being a largely coastal landmass. Hurricanes and floods strike with increasing frequency, damaging or outright...
View ArticleHumanity isn't likely to extinguish itself, writes SETI scientist
Climate change. Pandemics. Nuclear war. While these are undoubtedly devastating realities or possibilities, could they wipe out humanity entirely? Highly unlikely, writes Seth Shostak, senior...
View ArticleUK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars
Because we live on a divergent Hellworld timeline where everything is too comically absurd to be real except for the fact that it is, the BBC published an article about the need for asthmatics like me...
View ArticleWhat happens when climate change ravages graveyards?
I spend more time than I probably should wondering when the luxury condo trend will finally come for the dead. Real estate is expensive, and there's lots of valuable land in urban areas that could be...
View ArticleThere's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a...
The Los Angeles Times has a harrowing new story about Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Japanese forces invaded the small Pacific nation and its residents during World War I, and the United...
View ArticleVIDEO: Hurricane destruction, one century in one minute
This video visualizes a century of tropical storm destruction in one minute. Amazing work by Aslak Grinstead. Damages are framed in terms of an equivalent Area of Total Destruction. How large an land...
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Italy: Venice council flooded after 'NO' vote on climate change measures
Oops. Awkward. An Italian council was flooded immediately after rejecting new measures to address the climate crisis that threatens to sink the city, and wreak havoc throughout the world. The regional...
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Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data
Pack rats, aka woodrats, build their nests, called middens, from plant debris, rocks, animal parts, paper, and almost any other bits of detritus nearby. Frequently, they urinate on their middens. The...
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