Extreme heat can affect every aspect of modern life, and heat waves aren’t going away. From metal failures to roadways breaking down to air conditioning loads, our warming climate is becoming a larger and larger problem.
Climate & Environment
Heatflation has doubled the price of olive oil over the past year. It would set you back around $720 to fill up the typical car’s 12-gallon tank with olive oil found on Amazon.
A NASA engineer says, "Geoengineering is not a cure. At best, it’s a Band-Aid or tourniquet; at worst, it could be a self-inflicted wound."
Based on the extensive scientific evidence presented at the trial the judge found that the Montana youth are being harmed by climate change occurring in Montana.
A Maui resident reported simply, "Lahaina is bad. We lost historic buildings. Front Street is gone."
Produced by Adam McKay, the director of "Don't Look Up," the ad assures viewers Chevron has "billions and billions of dollars to pay for this commercial time, this cheesy footage, and this bullshit music."
This truly is a climate emergency, and every day that goes by without significant action further endangers the future of almost all life on Earth, including us.
There are more than 12,000 types of PFAS chemicals, sometimes called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down—and these chemicals can be found in our taps.
There’s more than one factor at work as climate change moves our warming planet kicks into temperature overdrive.
These observations and new research suggest that Earth’s remaining ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are far more vulnerable to climate warming than models predict.
By 2100, if current emissions trajectories hold, critical glaciers providing fresh water for 2 billion people in Asia could permanently lose 80 percent of their ice.
A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”
Cities and states faced with mounting costs of climate change have sued Big Oil. Of course, these companies spared no expense trying to blocking these cases—but the Supreme Court let them continue.
It is increasingly common for companies to make public claims about the sustainability of their products and business operations—but it’s not always clear how they are actually impacting the environment.
On a Friday morning before Memorial Day weekend 2018, a tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other lethal pathogens became overpressurized, forcing the liquid out a vent pipe—and no one had noticed.
The curiosity of kids, borne out of simple observation, benefits us all this Earth Day—when we should all take stock of our relationship with this pale blue dot we live on.