Why the heat wave hitting the Western U.S. is so intense
Records will break. A mid-June heat wave, lasting through the week’s end, is baking much of the Western U.S. A hot weather pattern amplified by a climate change-exacerbated drying trend…
3 signs the climate op-ed you’re reading is full of it
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Shoddy climate opinion articles are like zombies. They’re continually resurrected in various forms. Once…
See the grim climate graphs censored by Trump
They’re back. After a four-year hiatus during the Trump administration, the EPA announced this week the return of its Climate Change Indicators website. (The previous administration deleted many of the…
How climate change moved Earth’s axis
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Greenland is purging ice into the ocean. And Earth noticed. A strange impact of…
What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were this high
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. The last time CO2 levels were as high as today, ocean waters drowned the…
Why the sun isn’t causing today’s climate change
Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. Yes, the sun is a profoundly important factor in Earth’s climate. It always will…
Climate change is making Kyoto’s cherry blossoms bloom the earliest in 1,200 years
Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan reached peak bloom on March 26 this year — the earliest the event has occurred in 1,200 years of records. Why so soon? Climate change,…
The EPA’s climate webpage got axed. Now it’s back.
The Trump administration deleted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change webpage on Oct. 16, 2018. Now, it’s back. The EPA announced Thursday that it rebooted its climate webpage,…
Extreme winter freeze that hit U.S. actually used to be common
Winters are growing wimpier. In much of the U.S., winter is the fastest-warming season. Though future extreme cold snaps are inevitable — because frigid Arctic air sometimes spills down south…
Tech for Change
From 3D-printed prostheses to burgers grown in science labs to smarter mobility for the elderly or infirm (or just helping us get more sleep at night), tech improves our lives…