Thousands of firefighters are working to put out wildfires in Alaska as they blaze across the state. The Alaska Division of Forestry reported that as of today there are 317 wildfires burning in the Last Frontier. On Wednesday alone, there were 40 new fires and Thursday saw an additional 28 new fires, bringing the total acreage burned […]
Today, the Senate narrowly approved a procedural motion to pass a degraded version of the Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority that passed last month. A smaller handful of Democrats joined with Senate Republicans to pass Fast Track over the will of the American people who have been clamoring to halt the rush to rubber stamp […]
Need proof that we’re having the hottest year on record? Scorching heat is searing parts of the world, sparking wildfires and claiming lives due to heat stroke and dehydration. A young boy in Calcutta, India keeps himself cool amid a relentless heat wave that has killed thousands of people in his country. Photo Credit: Saikat […]
Fast Track would railroad the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) through Congress. Thanks to leaks, we know that the TPP includes provisions that would harm the environment and accelerate climate change. A provision was even added to the Fast Track legislation forbidding climate issues from being included in U.S. trade pacts for the next six years. After […]
Climate change has caused Alaska’s glaciers to melt so quickly that a one-foot thick layer of water could completely cover the entire state of Alaska every seven years, according to a new study. You can see how much ice has melted into the oceans in just three decades with NASA’s satellite imagery of Alaska’s fast-moving […]
This past May was the hottest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). “The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for May 2015 was the highest for May in the 136-year period of record, at 0.87°C (1.57°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F),” said NOAA. This breaks […]
While the Pope sucks up all the media attention with his climate encyclical today, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley has released a position paper on the environment that deserves more attention, even if he’s not frontrunner Hillary Clinton or progressive idol Bernie Sanders. In the paper, the former Maryland governor burnished his credentials as a […]
We’ve already seen the Pope in a hilarious over the top, Hollywood-style spoof trailer, but now DeSmogBlog has posted an awesome video in which Pope Francis (not the real one, unfortunately) gets up on stage at an open mic night to drop a few rhymes, and then drops his mic. Here’s one of the many […]
Think the water situation is bad in California? Freshwater is depleting at alarming and unsustainable rates in major underground aquifers around the globe, according to NASA satellite images. ~1/3rd of Earth’s largest groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted says new study: http://t.co/sEMnRmFSe7 pic.twitter.com/YBo4f30FFL — NASA (@NASA) June 17, 2015 Researchers from the University of California, […]
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