Phytoplankton population drops 40 percent since 1950. Key biological...
From our community:“The atmosphere and climate do not respond to hopes or aspirations”. Yale 360Earth’s climate is incredibly complex. Scientists are still discovering the effects and consequences of...
View Article'It’s game over': The last 'Gray Ghost' caribou herd is down to just three...
The South Selkirk Caribou also known as the Gray Ghost herd is one of the southernmost caribou in the world and the last to roam into the lower 48 states of the United States. They are quite shy and...
View ArticleAmazon rainforest defender and Shaman, Olivia Arévalo Lomas, assassinated in...
“Communities that take a stand against environmental destruction are now in the firing line of companies’ private security guards, state forces and contract killers. For every land and environmental...
View ArticleTrump Issues 2018 Earth Day message By Praising Rollback Of Environmental...
Read it and weep. x.@realDonaldTrump issues #EarthDay2018 message pic.twitter.com/mbEW2uCp9V— George Bennett (@gbennettpost) April 22, 2018
View ArticleExpect abnormally high ice loss from Greenland in 2018. Melting is feeding on...
"Just the little bit of extra heat from a tiny soot particle can start transforming feathery and highly reflective snow crystals into darker, rounded grains that absorb more heat." —Jason BoxBreaking:...
View Article700,000 Rohingya stare down cyclone season in storm surge plain with just...
Since late August 2017, approximately 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee Myanmar’s (formerly known as Burma) Rakhine State to escape the military’s large-scale campaign of ethnic...
View ArticleHow Virtual Reality can show us life, death and the consequences we are blind to
Alaska’s oldest newspaper, The Nome Nugget, reports on the very strange happenings with the sea ice in the Bering Sea. The lack of sea ice and vistas of open water has “jumbled” the start of subsidence...
View ArticleBritish Columbia: Bottlenose dolphins arrive; Wildfire creates...
"This was the mother of all pyroCbs. Normally, when you see something like this, you think volcanic eruptions — that's what normally puts a lot of material into the stratosphere — but it's all coming...
View ArticleUK and US team up on worrisome Thwaites glacier cork; Pacific island...
“As scientists, it is not our role to tell people what they should do or must believe about the rising threat of climate change. But we consider it to be our responsibility as professionals to ensure,...
View ArticleCan Puerto Rico Recover From Maria Before the Next Storm Hits?
"Children, hungry and sick, clinging to their crying mothers, who were begging for food to feed their families. Frail elders exposed to excessive heat and rain, desperate for drinking water and forced...
View ArticleTrump just pulled funding for Syrian “White Helmets” rescue group. Vladimir...
I rarely deviate from sharing climate change issues, but this really pisses me off. How can anybody be so fucking cruel and heartless?The White Helmets consists of 3,000 heroes that rush into collapsed...
View ArticleAnother extreme heat wave strikes the North Pole
Sad news out of the Arctic. The Arctic is the fastest warming area on the Earth. This year has been marked by repeated heat waves that have increased the melt of sea ice and softened glacial ice that...
View ArticleUnprecedented squall of powerful dust storms leaves trail of destruction in...
"In case of a dust storm, due to excessive heating, the water from the clouds evaporates before it could land. So soil is dry and the severe winds lift up this soil up to 500 metres above the land."...
View ArticleTrump Cancels NASA Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Program
More insanity from the Trump administration. Europe will now become the leader in international carbon monitoring. Phil Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, told...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.19: Dis and Dat
Good morning gardeners,The rainy season is here. We are going to get drenched with heavy tropical rainfall over the next few days, up to 7 inches of is predicted. This is good news for the Everglades...
View ArticleParkland shooting survivor Samantha Fuentes shows off shrapnel-free face
I needed this spot of good news today. From Broward County’s Sun-Sentinel. Samantha Fuentes, a survivor of the attack that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, says her face "is...
View ArticleSun rises in the Arctic for the summer. Now, melting will kick into overdrive.
“I really didn’t care about it (referring to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and then when I heard that everybody wanted it, for 40 years they’ve been trying to get it approved, I...
View ArticleSomeone, somewhere, is releasing the man made gas that destroys the Ozone Layer
The ozone layer, located in the Earth’s stratosphere, acts as a shield that protects us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UVB) radiation. These radiations are high frequency waves which cause some...
View ArticleSprinting to the finish line: Earth's climate to increase 4° Celsius by 2084.
A collaborative effort by Chinese researchers resulted in a new study that was recently published in the journal The Institute of Atmospheric Physics with incredibly disturbing news for most life on...
View ArticleFor The First Time, a Bumble Bee Has Been Added to The Endangered Species List
Days before popular vote loser Donald Trump was installed in the Whitehouse and our gut wrenching national nightmare began, the US Fish and Wildlife Service added the rusty-patched bumblebee to the...
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