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Duke Energy Cooling Pond Dam Collapses in Wake of Hurricane Matthew Flooding

River is chewing up everything that it passes, flowing at a very high rate, and it will cause erosions of anything," said Matthew Starr, Upper Neuse Riverkeeper.Disturbing news out of North Carolina...

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Great Barrier Reef passed away in 2016 after a long illness. It was 25...

Rowan Jacobson has a must read piece in Outside Magazine titled — Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016).Almost a quarter of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, which is 1,400...

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Scylla and Charybdis: Legal experts warn that the US Senate could block...

“I worry about her ability to have enough cocktails with enough Republican senators to get this over the hump. That’s a heavy lift.” Michael WaraUnited Nation diplomats finalized a deal Saturday in...

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'The largest iceberg in decades broke free from a North American glacier –...

Porcupine Glacier is a 12 and a half mile long outlet glacier of an icefield in the Hoodoo Mountains in northern British Columbia. During late August of 2016 it calved a large iceberg but it was just...

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Shocking report: Two-thirds of all wild animals on the earth could be gone by...

August 8 marked Earth Overshoot Day, a day marked to remind us how we are exhausting the resources provided by Mother Earth. That day was a grim and gut-wrenching reminder of how we humans are living...

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Guess who wants to accelerate dangerous climate change?

verb re·sist \ri-ˈzist\: to fight against (something) : to try to stop or prevent (something): to remain strong against the force or effect of (something) : to not be affected or harmed by (something):...

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Listen to 58 years of the deafening rise of carbon pollution

The Mauna Loa carbon dioxide (CO2) record, also known as the Keeling Curve, is the world’s longest unbroken record of carbon dioxide concentrations and most people have even never heard of it. The...

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Getz Ice Shelf experiencing high basal melt rates-fracturing along basal...

Antarctica is desolate, deadly cold, windy and is surprisingly dry. It holds 90% of the worlds ice in an area somewhat larger then the continental United States. If as expected, we continue to burn...

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Trump to scrap all NASA climate research

In breaking news from The Guardian, President Elect Donald Trump, according to his senior NASA advisor, will eliminate all climate change research within the agency because it is “politicized...

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John Kerry: "Time Is Not On Our Side!" - Tipping points imminent warn Arctic...

Nick Breeze of Envisionation is a climate change journalist and  interviewer. In September, he interviewed Professor Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland....

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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier is breaking up from the inside out.

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) just issued a press release informing the world that a key glacier in West Antarctica is breaking up from the inside out. This suggests, said the AGU statement,...

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As Arctic sea ice continues to decline, orcas are replacing the polar bear as...

Polar ice the size of India has melted into the oceans in record heat due to our relentless burning of fossil fuels. Climate scientists are very alarmed about this development. They see a buildup of...

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When ice shelves are lined up and the first one collapses it can cause...

The greatest unknown about future sea level rise is the loss of the mighty Antarctic ice streams. The ice shelves in Antarctica provide a buttressing effect on the land-based ice streams. They hold the...

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E Antarctica ice shelves are very sensitive to climate change-Mystery crater...

Researchers from the KU Leuven or University of Leuven, a Dutch-speaking university in Leuven, Flanders, Belgium, have concluded that East Antarctica is now considered vulnerable to climate change....

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Know Thy Enemy: Donald Trump's legislative roadmap to destroy the environment

It would be extremely challenging to avert catastrophic climate chaos no matter who would have been elected President of the United States in 2016. On Earth Day (April 22, 2016), 175 nations signed the...

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Obama may announce, as early as today, a ban on offshore oil drilling in the...

Major news sources are reporting that President Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely...

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Climate scientists swing back, launch anonymous hotline for gov't employees...

Donald Trump and his cabal of climate change deniers, and enablers, will unleash an assault on everything this country holds dear in less than a month. This spectacle will not be easy to endure....

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White Nationalists deployed the elements tested on climate scientists 7 years...

In 2011, Daily Kos writer G2geek wrote a dairy titled Stochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters. The diarist defined Stochastic Terrorism as “Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications...

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Snorkeling with Obama at his legacy, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

President Obama visited Midway Atoll in September to see the expanded Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a World Heritage Site.  Obama’s expansion of the monument includes 583,000 square miles...

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Brunt Ice shelf begins to crack forcing the British Antarctica Survey to...

The UK is evacuating British Antarctic Society scientists from its Halley VI polar research base in March after a new rift developed in the ice sheet. The crack had been dormant for 35 years but became...

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