CDC expects Gulf Coast to be ground zero for Zika this summer. GOP doesn't...
The first U.S. Zika-related death was confirmed by health officials in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The man who was in his seventies died due to a rare Zika complication known as Thrombocytopenic purpura, an...
View ArticleThe Beaufort Sea Ice is breaking up months ahead of schedule due to early...
Although melting begins on the sea ice in late May, the sea ice breakup in the Beaufort Sea should be happening in August and September and than only near the coasts. But the ice began to crack April...
View ArticleMass die off of Mangroves follows the disastrous bleaching event of the Great...
Mangroves are coastal tropical forests that thrive in the brackish zone between the land and sea. This zone is made up of uniquely adapted, saltwater tolerant trees and shrubs. They provide essential...
View ArticleThe East Siberian Sea is turning blue.
Larger view for above image here.This is so incredibly sad and terrifying. A Blue Ocean event is a positive feedback loop where warming from humans burning of fossil fuel leads to a decrease in sea...
View ArticleAfrica's man-eating Nile crocodiles have slithered into the Everglades
Another blow to the fragile South Florida ecosystem as Nile crocodiles have been captured in the southernmost tip of South Florida near Miami. They are the second largest crocodile after the Saltwater...
View ArticleIn Alabama's Black Belt, impoverished citizens face slander suit for daring...
"If this had been a rich, white neighborhood, the landfill would never have gotten here," Uniontown resident Esther Calhoun, president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, told...
View ArticleScientists have discovered how Zika infects the placenta.
The Zika virus (ZIKV), an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus that has spread like wildfire to 30 countries in the Americas. In the USA, Puerto Rico’s poor are beginning to succumb to the virus and...
View ArticleRussia's toxic debris set to fall from the junkyard in the sky and splash...
CBC News has reported that an international aviation authority has issued a warning that toxic debris from a Russian rocket launch is slated to fall Saturday into Baffin Bay. The Bay is located outside...
View ArticleGut-wrenching: Alaska's Columbia Glacier continues to pull free from it's...
Larger image of the above can be found here.Breaking from the Extreme Ice Survey.Ten years ago, in 2006, James Balog photographed the terminus of Alaska's Columbia Glacier from a helicopter. At the end...
View ArticleCenters for Disease Control blisters GOP Congress: Give us the Zika funds we...
"Give us the money so we can work with American women and children and families to monitor the effects of Zika, so we can do a better job at killing mosquitoes to protect American women, and so we can...
View ArticleRiver of ice discovered beneath Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf. Antarctica...
“Similar to syrup, warm ice flows more readily than cold ice.” Bryn HubbardLarsen C ice shelf is in big trouble which means all of us are in big trouble. A disintegrating ice shelf will not raise sea...
View ArticleA haunting silence is spreading over the natural world.
“These are soundscapes that no one will ever experience again in their natural state. They exist now only as an abstraction, a digital acoustic impression of what we once had.” —Bernie KrauseClimate...
View ArticleWH blasts GOP Zika funding bill. S. Europe at risk. Latin-American women...
"This plan from congressional Republicans is four months late and nearly a billion dollars short of what our public health experts have said is necessary to do everything possible to fight the Zika...
View ArticleFlorida coastal environments collapsing due to GOP governance. Where is the...
There is no tropical storm off the coast of Stuart, Florida, but double red flags are up in Martin County Florida beaches anyways. Sgt. Steven Hearn with the Martin County Sheriff's Office Community...
View ArticleNASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter. Mind blowing video of...
An aurora is a form of space weather. It occurs in the cloud of electrically charged particles that surrounds each planet.SFGate.com reports:Juno promises to send back the best close-up views as it...
View ArticleMelt water filled Suicide Basin, near Juneau, explodes in a powerful glacial...
We have entered the world of consequences.The United States Geological Survey just released a time lapse video that is jaw dropping. Local Juneau officials are being assisted by the USGS as rising...
View ArticleAustralia's Kelp Forests have been wiped out by marine heat waves and they...
Australia’s southern coastline is fringed with rocky reefs that support a seemingly endless forested canopy of the worlds largest seaweed, kelp. “The reef is inter-connected through oceanographic,...
View ArticleKey West temperature 91 F - Fairbanks, Alaska 96 F on 7-13-16. GOP escalates...
It was 96 degrees Fahrenheit in Fairbanks, Alaska yesterday. The city built on permafrost will experience a high of 86 degrees today.Media Matters reports on the GOP war on science:Thirteen...
View ArticlePence doesn't believe Global Warming exists, and he demurs on evolution. Fox...
Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential, and GOP right wing radical, nominee Mike Pence is best known for signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which codified corporate discrimination against LGBT...
View ArticleGreenland 'bejeweled with blue meltwater streams, rivers, and lakes'-Waves...
See larger image here.The melt season in Greenland starts every spring or early summer. The melting white snow and ice that accumulated on the ice sheet surface over the winter transforms to a blue...
View Article