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.
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.
Before Trump's indictment took over the headlines, a study warned that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries."
Although the genre is recent, the bleakness of post-climate-change stories is nothing new in science fiction. Climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” is having a renaissance.
Even though no congressional Republican voted for the biggest climate bill in the country’s history, red states were among the leaders in green power generation last year.
New guidelines for water quality to address the presence of "forever chemicals" have been proposed. What will it take to actually implement these standards and clean up our water?