California: Thirteen dead in Montecito rains and mudslides.
Twenty thousand people in California have been evacuated from areas below the hillsides that had burned from the largest wildfire (Thomas Wildfire) in California history.At least 13 people are dead...
View ArticleAmid a migration of 300,000 to Florida since Maria, Puerto Rico...
“We want the Puerto Rican community in Orlando to get involved in politics, to help raise awareness and be our voice, since we don’t have a vote in Congress, but we are part of the United States”....
View ArticleArmed Federal Agents Enter Warehouse in Puerto Rico to Seize Hoarded Electric...
Kate Aronoff, writing for The Intercept, just broke some gobsmacking news on the power situation in Puerto Rico. After more than 100 days, electricity still has not been fully restored to the hurricane...
View ArticleAustralian raptors have weaponized fire.
“I have seen a hawk pick up a smouldering stick in its claws and drop it in a fresh patch of dry grass half a mile away, then wait with its mates for the mad exodus of scorched and frightened rodents...
View ArticleOn earthquake anniversary, Miami Haitians call Trump ‘racist’ for ‘shithole’...
Just a quick note on how Miami’s Haitian-American community is reacting after having been lied to by the current occupant in the oval office. As you recall, tRump campaigned in Little Haiti wooing the...
View ArticleOcean warming blamed for projected 80 percent decline in Gulf of Alaska cod...
"To have less sea ice you have less habitat for the ice algae to grow on and overall you have less supply of food from ice algae to the eco-system," Dr. Tom Brown, marine ecologist at the Scottish...
View ArticlePuerto Rico energy authority investigates dozens of post-Maria bribery cases....
Nsikahn Akpan, the digital science producer for PBS News Hour reports that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is actively investigating some employees that have allegedly been forcing businesses...
View ArticleBlack Death 'spread by humans not rats'
“Black Death” or the Great Plague, originated in China in 1334 and spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where it claimed an estimated 60% of the European population...
View ArticleEvidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic as permafrost erosion...
The Arctic has a complex climate. There is little sunlight in winter, the summer days are long, the storms can include hurricane force winds, bitter cold temperatures, and at times, even rainfall. Ice...
View ArticleFlorida Republicans are trying to declare porn a public health crisis
This is rich. After it was revealed that Donald Trump paid $130,000 of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, the GOP in Florida has decided to elevate Pornography to the same level as the opioid...
View ArticleGlobal temperature targets will be missed in 17 years unless carbon emissions...
“Humans aren’t well wired to act on complex statistical risks. We care a lot more about the tangible present than the distant future. Many of us do that to the extreme—what behavioral scientists call...
View ArticleMusk Ox, a living remnant of the Ice Age, may not survive Anthropogenic...
From our community:Most people have no idea what musk oxen are, as it is often overshadowed by polar bears, walrus, seals, reindeer and caribou and other iconic species of the Arctic. The musk ox,...
View ArticleChimpanzees can catch the “common cold” from humans—and it can kill them
Scientists investigating a respiratory outbreak in a small chimpanzee town in Uganda's Kibale National Park were devastated to discover that the entire population had caught the common cold, rhinovirus...
View ArticleEndangered whale's calving season peaks, but no babies seen
From our community:"We're in a bad spot with right whales, there's no doubt about it. Everybody's anxious to see more calves and the calves aren't coming." Barb Zoodsma, U.S. Southeast for NOAA...
View ArticleThe exhaustion of Gaia.
Something horrible will happen tonight when Donald Trump sells his infrastructure plan to the nation in his first, and hopefully last, State of the Union address. The infrastructure plan is the wet...
View ArticleWilkie the Orca can say 'Hello' and 'Bye-Bye' Through her Blowhole
From our community:A now 16-year-old killer whale named Wilkie has mimicked her French trainer by speaking a few simple words in English. She has been able to say “Hello,” “Goodbye,” “Amy” and can even...
View ArticleBy 2022, we may start seeing individual years exceed 1.5c Warming
The Paris Agreement that attempts to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius was a surprise political victory for poor and island countries threatened by the effects of climate change. The target was...
View ArticleWe are not being told the whole story about Cape Town. A literal shit-storm...
“Yes, there are studies going on and I certainly resort occasionally to the U.S. Pentagon-funded Minerva Program, which works with University of Texas in Sussex, to identify the correlations between...
View Article'Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands Begins Today
Under the cover of chaos and distraction, the Trump Administration begins to destroy and contaminate our National Monuments in Utah today. This is an assault not only on the land and water, but also on...
View ArticleA destructive beetle has jumped the Rockies
It’s actually jumped the Rockies and has spread across Alberta to Saskatchewan. That’s in the far north, it’s interior. It’s typically very, very cold, and in the past too cold for the beetle to...
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