This summer is undoubtedly one for the record books. Brutal heat has literally melted roads, ignited forest fires and affected millions around the planet. Extreme weather has scorched the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the U.S, as weather experts predict that this year will surpass last year as the hottest in recorded history. A massive […]
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson participated in a Q&A panel on Monday night with doctors, mathematicians and other scientists. The panelists took questions on topics including climate change, extraterrestrial life and artificial intelligence. Tyson said it’s “one of the great tragedies of modern society that we have politicians who are cherry-picking science in the interest of social, cultural, political or religious belief systems.” Neil […]
The long-awaited final Clean Power Plan rule was released yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “Suddenly I had this weird feeling, like I couldn’t breathe” —@POTUS on running in L.A. in 1979 #CleanPowerPlan http://t.co/0mjv24on1Z — The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 3, 2015 The summary of the final rule, states that the EPA is establishing: carbon dioxide […]
At a restaurant in New Hampshire yesterday, 23-year old Tyler McFarland played a trick on presidential hopeful and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. McFarland approached Walker with a sign reading “Walker 4 President” and asked to take a photo with him. Walker obliged, but just before the photo was taken McFarland flipped his sign over to […]
We live in an era of limited resources—peak oil, peak phosphorous, peak everything. With the world population at nearly 7.4 billion and people living increasingly energy-intensive lifestyles, there has never been a more pressing need to conserve natural resources and develop renewable energy sources. A recent report from James Hansen and 16 other leading climate […]
Bill Nye gets flak all the time from Internet trolls for merely speaking out about the need to address climate change. But that hasn’t stopped the famed scientist from shredding climate deniers’ specious arguments and using his fame to bring attention to the need to act on climate. Now, Bill Nye has released a video, which has nearly 3 million […]
A heat wave passing over the Middle East sent temperature skyrocketing to extreme levels over the weekend. A graphic showing temperatures on Thursday. Photo credit: @RyanMaue/Twitter In the Iranian city of Bandar Mahshahr—a city of more than 100,000 people atop the Persian Gulf—the heat index, reached an astonishing 73C (164F) on Friday afternoon, according to the […]
Climate Central, a dedicated team of scientists and journalists researching climate change, has put together an interactive map that shows in real time the active wildfires in the U.S. Each flame icon indicates an active wildfire. Climate Central explains: Hover over a given fire to see its name, and if you zoom in you’ll be […]
If you’re wondering how much damage four years of an epic drought can wreck, look no further than the condition of California’s depleted reservoirs. In new footage of the Folsom, Oroville and Shasta reservoirs—captured by the California Department of Water Resources (CA-DWR) on July 20—it’s genuinely startling to see how little water remains. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhRNWvEIis […]
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