Freezing temperatures likely contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals
The amount of information we have about the human family tree is steadily growing, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions. One of the …
Climate Change
NASA’s new satellite will show us just how much we’re messing up the Earth
NASA spends plenty of time peering into space, but it’s also very interested in what’s going on with our own planet. Earth’s climate is shifting, …
Scientists develop a system for trapping CO2 that could could slow the effects of global warming
Mankind might be slowly destroying planet Earth, but there’s also a chance we could be the ones to save it from ourselves. A group of …
Republican congressman argues that rocks falling into the ocean are causing sea levels to rise
Imagine being a climate scientist. You spend years of your life studying the ebbs and flows of the Earth, gathering data, studying trends, and eventually …
NASA is watching Arctic sea ice closely, and it has a dire warning for us all
NASA spends a lot of its time gazing into the depths of the cosmos, but one of the great things about having high-powered cameras orbiting …
Climate change could unleash vast reserves of toxic mercury from Arctic permafrost
Climate change — aka, global warming, which virtually every credible scientist has agreed is mankind’s doing — is most often associated with the melting of …
Plastics are suffocating ocean reefs because humans can’t stop being lazy slobs
The world’s coral reefs are already in serious trouble thanks to climate change that has bleached (read: utterly devastated) massive stretches of ocean habitat, and …
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that 2017 was one of the hottest years on record
2017 was one of the hottest years on record, according to new data from NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Depending on who you …
Warming oceans are pushing poisonous sea snakes towards the United States
Taking a trip to a beach in Southern California is supposed to be a relaxing, leisurely experience. For some beachgoers earlier this week it was …
Melting glaciers aren’t just causing sea levels to rise – they’re causing the ocean floor to sink
As the Earth’s largest chunks of ice continue to get smaller and smaller, sea levels have risen. All that melting ice has to go somewhere, …
Climate change is devastating coral reefs and scientists don’t know if they’ll ever recover
Coral reefs are among the ocean’s most wondrous achievements. Like a massive mega-city made up of microorganisms, these diverse ecosystems provide shelter for many different …
NASA just launched an online tool to show you which coastal cities will be swallowed when global warming ramps up
As the Earth continues to heat up thanks in large part to the effects of scientifically-proven human factors, our little blue sphere’s collection of ice …
Artificial climate intervention could completely destroy the planet, so we probably shouldn’t do that
That terrible Hollywood disaster movie Geostorm fell flat on its face at the box office and got so many things wrong when it comes to …
Carbon dioxide levels are the highest in 3 million years
Despite the increasing number of regulations and guidelines related to the burning of fossil fuels — as well as the spike in green technologies including …
Oceans could rise as much as six feet within the century, so say goodbye to the coast
The effects of human-prompted climate change are varied and unpredictable, and we’re already starting to see some of the effects. Mankind is making some important …
A massive hole just opened up in Antarctica’s ice and scientists can’t explain it
Thanks to its usefulness as an indicator of how badly humans are messing up the Earth with global warming, scientists like to keep a pretty …
Stop blaming the Sun for global warming
The Earth is getting warmer and warmer, and scientists are now essentially unanimous in their opinion that humans are to blame, but could other factors …
State-sized chunk of Antarctica set to break off soon
People often ask for clear signs that global warming — sorry, sorry “climate change” — is real. Sure, sea levels are rising, storms are becoming …
The Weather Channel is viciously trolling Donald Trump on climate change
When it comes to weigh in on climate change, the absolutely overwhelming number of scientific bodies that have declared it a very real, and very …
Colossal crack in Antarctica ice shelf about to drop state-sized iceberg into the ocean
With President Donald Trump announcing that the United States won’t be joining a huge number of its allies in supporting the Paris Agreement on climate …
Humans have messed up the planet so rapidly that trees are migrating
As the evidence that human activity and pollution are quickly warming our planet continues to pile up, researchers are now noticing a particularly shocking side …
Last year was the hottest year on record, again
The results are in: 2016 was the hottest year on record, marking the third year in a row that climate records have been broken. The …
China practically says Trump lied about climate change
China hit President-elect Donald Trump a second time in a matter of just a few days. The first attack happened a few days ago when …
It’s almost definitely too late to save our planet from catastrophic climate change
Despite the renewed zeal of the world’s leaders to limit the impact of climate change, it might already be too late. According to a new report from …
One look at this visualization will make you a climate change believer
Some day the climate change argument will be over and one side will emerge victorious, but that day almost certainly won’t come in our lifetimes. People …
Moving Instagram account lets you follow along as humans destroy the Earth
Watching our planet crumble around us has never looked so beautiful. It’s difficult to dispute the impact humans have had on Earth, and the damage isn’t …
