The world’s glaciers are melting fast—probably faster than at any time in recorded history, according to new research. Many glaciers in the European Alps could lose about 50 percent of their present surface area. Photo credit: TonnyB / Wikimedia Commons Measurements show several hundred glaciers are losing between half and one meter of thickness every […]
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 […]
As 2015 shapes up to be the hottest year on record, scientists warn the world could be halfway towards surpassing countries’ self-set red line of 2C temperature rise. Now with an El Nino underway and predicted to intensify, it looks as if the global average surface temperature could jump by around 0.1C in just one […]
A few weeks ago, on a pleasantly cool day, this reporter and his dog, an Alaskan malamute named Bear, headed for a small set of trails in an area of woods not far from the New York-New Jersey border. With bicyclists plying their way on the shoulder of a nearby highway and the Hudson River […]
July means winter “down under” in Australia. And winter they are getting. “Icy blasts of wind have led to an unusual blanket of heavy snowfall across Queensland—which typically calls itself the “sunshine state”—during some of the coldest winter weather in decades,” reports The Telegraph. We have snow in #thisisqueensland! So… What do we with this stuff? Any […]
The Yes Men are at it again. Known for their prankster activism, the “culture jamming activist duo” created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos have now offered a unique solution to California’s ongoing epic drought. Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, The Yes Men, have now offered a unique solution to California’s ongoing epic drought. In […]
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