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Massive Iceberg Finally Breaks Off: Antarctic Landscape ‘Changed Forever’

Massive Iceberg Finally Breaks Off: Antarctic Landscape ‘Changed Forever’

One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has “finally” broken away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, researchers studying the event announced. The iceberg, which will likely be dubbed A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes, has a volume twice that of Lake Erie, and is about 5,800 square kilometers in size—roughly the […]

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    Stephen Hawking: ‘We Are Close to Tipping Point Where Global Warming Becomes Irreversible’

    Stephen Hawking: ‘We Are Close to Tipping Point Where Global Warming Becomes Irreversible’

    Stephen Hawking delivered another round of condemnation over President Donald Trump‘s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. “We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible,” the famed theoretical physicist said. “Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of […]

    Major Correction to Satellite Data Shows 140% Faster Warming Since 1998

    Major Correction to Satellite Data Shows 140% Faster Warming Since 1998

    By Zeke Hausfather A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the earth’s atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought. Researchers from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), based in California, have released a substantially revised version of their lower tropospheric […]

    Next Three Years Will Decide Fate of Our Planet’s Climate, Experts Warn

    Next Three Years Will Decide Fate of Our Planet’s Climate, Experts Warn

    By Andy Rowell Never has the paradox been greater. While the most powerful politician in the world is a climate denier, scientists are now warning that we have just three years to start making radical reductions to greenhouse gases. Put it another way: that is the term of the Trump presidency. We have three and […]

    Top EPA Official ‘Bullied’ Scientist to Change Congressional Testimony

    Top EPA Official ‘Bullied’ Scientist to Change Congressional Testimony

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) chief of staff pressured the leader of its Board of Scientific Counselors to change her congressional testimony to downplay the impact of the agency’s mass dismissal of scientists from the board, the New York Times reports. According to emails obtained by the Times, EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson […]

    How Algae Can Help Sweden Eliminate Carbon Emissions

    How Algae Can Help Sweden Eliminate Carbon Emissions

    By Avery Friedman Algae is often considered a nuisance, but for Sweden, the rapidly growing sea plant is now an asset. As the Scandinavian country works to cut all of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, it’s using algae to sop up the carbon emissions from cement. Cement production, it turns out, is a major […]

    Stephen Hawking: ‘I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth’

    Stephen Hawking: ‘I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth’

    Stephen Hawking repeated his warning that humanity needs to leave Earth and colonize the moon, Mars or other planets in order for our species to survive the impending doom of climate change. “We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change … When we we have reached similar crises there has usually been […]

    EPA Gives Notice to Dozens of Scientific Advisory Board Members, Plans to Offer Buyout to 1,200 Employees

    EPA Gives Notice to Dozens of Scientific Advisory Board Members, Plans to Offer Buyout to 1,200 Employees

    Dozens of scientists on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Board of Scientific Counselors and board subcommittees have been informed that they will not be renewed for their roles advising the agency, the Washington Post reported. The move, which would dismiss 38 of the 49 remaining subcommittee members, “effectively wipes out [the board] and leaves […]