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On one day in September, people from over 50 countries decided to do something about our plastic problem. Together, they picked up almost half a million pieces of plastic garbage…
Say we stopped emitting greenhouse gases overnight; by the year 2100, the world’s oceans would still likely rise another foot and a half. More realistically, we’ll likely see seas get…
A new video shows the moment that California’s Kincade fire broke out Wednesday night, and quickly spread to a raging wildfire. The video was recorded by the ALERT wildfire system,…
The Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates: Greenland’s ice is disappearing six times faster than it was four decades ago. In August, the ice sheet lost 60 billion tons in…
People sometimes forget that oceans contain a lot more than the water you see just beneath the surface. The depths below the ocean’s surface comprise a staggering 95 percent of…
Empires can fall for all kinds of reasons – invasion, over-expansion, corruption, economic troubles, climate change – but new research suggests the Akkadian Empire may have been brought low by…
No humans live on Mullion Island off the coast of Cornwall in Britain. No humans are even allowed to set foot on the remote island without a permit. Mullion Island…
It’s hot in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. Like, really hot. On summer nights, temperatures rarely dip below 32 degrees Celsius (that’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit), and during the day…
Air pollution worsened in the United States in 2017 and 2018, new data shows, a reversal after years of sustained improvement with significant implications for public health. In 2018 alone,…
Climate change is reshaping the evolution and intensity of El Niño events in a way that favors the occurrence of more “super” El Niños, according to a study published Monday.…