How coronavirus impacts climate change and the US housing market
I'm a big fan of Spotify's Daily Drive playlist, which is basically just Algorithmic Radio that delivers a custom mix of news and music based on my listening habits. That's how I ended listening to a...
View ArticleGreenland and Antarctica melting 6x faster than in 1990s: NASA
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena today reports new evidence of accelerating glacier melt in Antarctica. “Observations from 11 satellite missions monitoring the Greenland and Antarctic ice...
View ArticleExamining the impact of coronavirus on climate change
Professor Katharine Hayhoe is one of the leading voices on climate action in North America. In the most recent episode of her Global Weirding webseries — the second in a two-part series — she...
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Brazil's Bolsonaro deploys military to Amazon region
Brazil's Trump, right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, formally authorized deployment of military forces in the Amazon rainforest region, purportedly to fight deforestation and fires. Surely the massive...
View ArticleHorrific mudslide in Norway dragging houses into the sea
Just now in Alta, Norway: Huge mudslide dragging several houses into the sea. pic.twitter.com/xR4t5zLI7m — Jan Fredrik Drabløs (@JanFredrikD) June 3, 2020 This video of farmhouses and land sliding...
View ArticleFacebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for...
The CO2 Coalition is a non-profit climate denial organization with deep pockets supported by the Mercers, the Kochs, and other conservative fossil fuel financial interests. Despite the demonstrable...
View ArticleAlarming chart shows 140 years of country-level temperature anomalies
Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute created this troubling but unsurprising chart of almost 140 years of temperature anomalies by country. The data used was from the NASA GISS, Land...
View ArticleHow funds from major fossil fuel corporations help control police departments
A recent investigation from the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its LittleSis database partners breaks down some of the...
View ArticleMelting sea ice forced scientists on Arctic mission to make emergency detour...
A German icebreaker ship carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition through the high Arctic finally reached the North Pole, after melting sea ice forced an emergency detour. From AP:...
View ArticleThere was chocolate snow in a Swiss town in the middle of August.
From The Independent: The Lindt & Spruengli company confirmed local reports on Tuesday that there was a minor defect in the cooling ventilation for a line for roasted "cocoa nibs" in its factory...
View ArticleLast year scientists locked a ship in Arctic ice. The summer melt shocked them.
In 2019, climate scientists deliberately locked The Polarstern into an Arctic ice floe about 500 km from the North Pole, taking detailed and novel measurements. Scientist Gunnar Spreen of MOSAiC, aka...
View ArticleClimate change is spreading radiation from Chernobyl over 2,000 miles away
One of the more difficult parts of trying to convince people about the seriousness of climate change is explaining how so many disparate elements and factors can collude and compound* and make...
View ArticleMysterious crater appears in Siberian tundra
Discovered by journalists with Vesti Yamal TV in Russia, a 164-ft crater in Siberia joins the other mysterious holes (previously, previously) thought to be the result of methane explosions. Record...
View ArticleOregon: wildfires turn daytime sky into a hellish shade of red
An outbreak of wildfires has spread across Oregon. As Oregon Public Broadcasting explains: Thousands of Oregonians were evacuated from their homes Tuesday, as conditions led to a spate of surging...
View ArticleMisstopia — Simon Stephenson's word for a world where everything has missed...
Simon Stephenson, author of the new novel, Set My Heart To Five, wrote the following exclusive essay for Boing Boing. — MF Welcome To The Misstopia When I moved to Los Angeles in 2013, there were no...
View ArticleAnimated explainer: "Is it too late to stop climate change?"
Kurzgesagt's latest "In a Nutshell" animation asks "Is it too late to stop climate change?" From the video: We have known for decades that rapid Climate Change is being caused by the release of...
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Trump gets approval to build another Scottish golf course, despite promise of...
Before taking oath as the President of the United States, Donald Trump insisted that, while he would remain in charge of his companies, they would not be taking any new foreign deals. As recently as...
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The Pentagon wants to spend $100 billion on a new nuclear arsenal
From ABC News: The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal that has operated continuously for...
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Is geoengingeering a bad idea whose time has come?
If humans wait to address climate change until we have to resort to last-ditch efforts like geoengineering, the potential upside as well as the unknown risks will both increase. Since most humans...
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Breeding by great tits under threat from climate change
A new research paper from the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford examines the potential impacts of climate change on great tits: We apply structured population models to a...
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