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The Oder river was mysteriously poisoned, leaving an ecological disaster of...

Mní wičhóniDespite fishermen removing rotting carcasses of fish, birds, beavers, and other wildlife for weeks in the Polish section of the Oder River, the government did not inform the public until...

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Climate change will make the next California megaflood much worse than...

Climate change makes natural disasters that much worse than they otherwise would.  A new study that was published in Science Advances used data from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble. It...

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The water crisis deepens as China-stressed hydropower plants force power cuts...

Mní wičhóniPower demand has surged in heatwave-plagued China due to the necessity of air conditioning and the plummeting depth of reservoirs and rivers due to drought.Economic strains have already...

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A deadly derecho barreled across Europe with wind gusts of up to 140 mph.

Climate change impacts are battering Europe, from the scorching heat and crop-killing droughts that have dominated the news (except most media outlets in the United States) and, more recently, flash...

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A mass mortality event due to climate breakdown has crashed Alaska's king and...

Crab is a lucrative market for blue-collar workers across the world’s oceans. The Alaskan king crab can cost a couple of hundred dollars per meal in restaurants targeted to a wealthy clientele. Snow...

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Two billion people in central Asia might lose all meltwater from the Tibetan...

"In a business as usual scenario, where we fail to curtail fossil fuel burning in the decades ahead meaningfully, we can expect a substantial decrease — nearly 100% loss — of water availability to...

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Thirty million Pakistanis endure a 'climate-induced humanitarian disaster of...

The estimated death toll is over 1200 in hard-hit flood-ravaged Pakistan. The flooding is a result of monsoon rains supercharged by global warming. This event is so catastrophic because more water...

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Ukraine's unfolding environmental catastrophes challenge the possibility of...

I realize that all people want to do is talk about Donald Trump (myself included), but sometimes other issues are worth knowing about. One of them is the habitability of Ukraine after Putin has been...

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Significant sea-level rise from Greenland 'zombie ice' alone is now inevitable.

"That's how climate change works. Today's outliers become tomorrow's averages." William Colgan,  at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.New research indicates that an absolute sea level rise...

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In the dystopian hellscape that is Pakistan, new misery comes in the form of...

“Of the 33 million people affected due to monsoon rains and floods across Pakistan, it is estimated that around five million people, including children, would get sick due to the outbreak of...

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The Thwaites glacier is holding back global coastal devastation by only the...

This was a pioneering study of the ocean floor, made possible by recent technological advancements in autonomous ocean mapping and a bold decision by the Wallenberg foundation to invest into this...

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Our evolutionary roots are why we never return to 'normal' again.

“We are not living in normal times, and every American knows it.” —Daniel Sherrell writing in The GuardianPaul and Anne Ehrlich wrote a fascinating new article; both were curious about what normality...

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Greenland ice sheet just suffered its worst melt event ever for September

CLIMATEWIRE | Ominous clouds rippled overhead, and scientist Jason Box raced to reach shelter before the rain hit.Box, a glaciologist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, had been...

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Boreal forests near the tipping point ending the biggest land-based carbon...

"We are not living in normal times, and every American knows it." Daniel Sherrell writing in The GuardianNestled between the tundra of the Arctic and the mixed deciduous and conifer forests to the...

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Trump allegedly offered to gift King Abdullah II the West Bank.

Trump offered King Abdullah II of Jordan the West Bank. Though he had no authority to do so, he thought it was a great deal for the king. Abdullah? He was horrified. What the traitor wanted in exchange...

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Not all heroes wear a cape - A billionaire gives away his company, and Earth...

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, transferred the entirety of the family business worth a whopping three billion dollars to a specifically designed non-profit trust to purchase land of...

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Stanford study warns that a slight nudging in temperature rise could...

A new study from Stanford University has found that if the frozen bottom of the East Antarctic, currently under miles-thick glacial ice, were to thaw at the land interface, glaciers that presently do...

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It's Nigeria's turn to be submerged underwater due to climate-driven extreme...

"We are facing devastating floods beyond our control. We have tried our best, and we couldn't stop it." Yusuf Sani Babura, Jigawa State Emergency Management AgencyAfrica's most populous nation is at...

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Brazilian Tourism - honest government ad from, you guessed it, The Juice Media.

As usual, Brazil has been in the news for the unrelenting carnage in the Amazon by the Brazilian government and the industries that feed on the death of the planet. The Amazon rainforest is one of nine...

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After records fall from Fiona's landfall in Canada, hot and moist air tracks...

After dropping two feet of rain in parts of Puerto Rico, knocking out the power grid, flattening their dietary staples of plantain, banana, coffee, and papaya, and leaving half the island without fresh...

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