Can you offset your carbon footprint with a smartphone app? Klima thinks so
Feeling guilty about all the bacon you eat? You can pony up some cash.
The smoke smothering Siberia is really intense
The fires burning in Siberia this year continue to be exceptional. First, overwintering zombie fires awoke in spring. Then, during an intense June heat wave with record-breaking temperatures, extreme fires…
A Canadian ice shelf has collapsed into giant ice islands
Warmer air temperatures and a lack of sea ice contributed to the breakup
California fire spawns towering, ashy clouds
When wildfires grow hot and large enough, they can spawn towering, smoky clouds. The Apple Fire burning in Southern California’s San Bernardino National Forest produced these big plumes, called pyrocumulus…
First Atlantic hurricane of 2020 forms, churns toward Texas
The first Atlantic hurricane of the year doesn’t usually form until around Aug. 10. Yet, Hurricane Hanna intensified into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday morning, some two…
How a decrease in transportation emissions can impact climate change
Ray White about 3 hours ago Transportation is the top source of CO2 emissions worldwide. Our reliance on travel using energy via fossil fuel creates a carbon footprint that’s far…
The Atlantic Ocean is now hurricane fuel
The Atlantic keeps breaking records. Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, the earliest time on record for the seventh named storm of the season to form…
Polar bears could disappear from most of the planet by 2100
By the end of the century, they might only be living in one area of Canada.
Warm temperatures baked Earth in the first half of 2020
A grim trend continues. Data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies confirmed you just lived through Earth’s second-warmest January through June on record. In 140 years of direct surface…
The devious fossil fuel propaganda we all use
In a dark TV ad aired in 1971, a jerk tosses a bag of trash from a moving car. The garbage spills onto the moccasins of a buckskin-clad Native American,…