'Like ice cream sliding off a piece of cake,' Greenland ice cap melts in a...
“We have never observed an ice sheet behaving this way before. It’s unprecedented in human scientific history.” - Kristin Poinar, Glaciologist, University of BuffaloGreenland is, for the most part, a...
View ArticleA new fast-moving lethal disease has spread from the Florida Reef to the...
“All the diseases I’ve studied in the past could be considered like the flu. They come every year, seasonally, and sometimes there are worse outbreaks. This thing is more like Ebola. It’s a killer, and...
View ArticleDiplomats in Washington say that due to Trump, the US could be held to...
Diplomatic sources in DC spoke to Richard Engel of NBC news on the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria and the ramifications for our country. It would be nice to see Richard on the MSNBC shows flush the...
View ArticleAs permafrost slumps and turns to mud, a large climate study finds global...
The Arctic is unraveling before our eyes. As our understanding of the changes continues, scientists have been fine-tuning models to give us a sense of how quickly we can expect tipping points to...
View ArticleUS Army finds that the 'military could collapse within twenty years' thanks...
According to a new report prepared by the US Army and, commissioned by the Pentagon, found that the next couple of decades will be so chaotic due to a warming climate that we will be unable to adapt in...
View ArticleThe tipping point for Antarctica is closer than we thought.
Three new studies raise the specter that the great ice platforms of the Antarctic continent are more unstable and susceptible to collapse than previously thought. Antarctica holds ninety percent of the...
View ArticleAlaskan climate shocks hinder migration of Bowhead whales through the Bering...
The Arctic has been warming faster than any other region on earth. The marginal sea of the Pacific which divides the most extensive landmasses on earth, Eurasia (Russia) and North America (Alaska), is...
View ArticleSydney, population five million, receives first ever 'catastrophic fire...
Yesterday not a single drop of rain fell on continental Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology was unable to identify any other day where this event had happened before. It is all part of a gut wrenching...
View ArticleAbrupt permafrost thaw will cause Arctic wildfire severity to double from one...
The high Arctic is in serious trouble from the fossil fuel and extraction industries to the degradation of the region's biomes from climate change. Despite the best efforts of the Trump regime to...
View ArticleJust when you thought things could not get any worse in Australia, Sydney...
The largest city in Australia, Sydney, is set to run out of water by 2022 warned a CNN affiliate, which was then confirmed by the Water Minister of New South Wales (NSW), Melinda Pavey. It is only...
View ArticlePuerto Ricans begin to abandon their beaches due to sea level rise clawing...
In Puerto Rico, the economy depends on tourist dollars. Tourists and locals alike are drawn to the island’s sun-kissed beaches for fun in the sun. But sea-level rise from thermal expansion and the...
View ArticleCoal knew they were killing the biosphere since 1966 and yet, still commits...
Thanks to President Trump and his transparent and perverse desire to enrich his golfing buddies in the fossil fuel industry and to accelerate the climate crisis, the U.S. is the most notorious climate...
View ArticleQuantifiable evidence that Antarctica's weakened ice shelves cause ice to...
"Ice shelves are the most vulnerable parts of Antarctica's ice sheet system and we know that they are shrinking, but what we didn't know before this work was how that was impacting the grounded ice...
View ArticleDefense officials concerned about growing support for Vladimir Putin by US...
“People’s beliefs and perceptions are shaped more by whatever the leaders of their own political tribe say than by ideology, history, or even their own self-interest,” Paul Pillar, former senior CIA...
View ArticleRapid sea-level rise likely as Greenland ice-melt accelerates towards the...
And what seems clear now is that Greenland is no longer changing in geological time. It is changing in human time. Jon Gertner, Yale Environment 360...
View ArticleWe always knew they would be first.
The horrors of climate change are unfolding around the world with smothering heatwaves, agricultural losses from flooding, and drought — higher storm surge along with powerful and deadly cyclonic...
View ArticlePut it on a bumper sticker - ‘You don’t have to live in Kentucky to vote...
Hat tip to Huffington Post for the find and video.Barney Frank had some wise advice for Democrats running for Senate against GOP held seats in 2020. Frank appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and...
View ArticleFor millions of years, the permanent wet remnants of Gondwana forest have...
"Friends. Shit is getting well-serious. I am at my place at the very top of the Bellinger Valley. Smoke has completely saturated everything for days now. "Most of this evening I have heard the wind...
View ArticleEcuador declares State of Emergency after barge carrying diesel fuel sinks in...
"Strong safeguards and rigorous enforcement are needed to prevent this from ever happening again. If we can't protect a biodiversity hotspot like the Galapagos Islands from this kind of pollution,...
View ArticleDay Zero arrives in Australian towns; unprecedented and widespread heatwave...
Australian fires continue to rage on the island continent as yet another looming record-breaking heatwave bears down on the land down under.The unrelenting heatwaves on marine and freshwater river...
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