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…
Why the fat bears are already getting so fat
Fat Bear Week isn’t until October. Yet the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve — who are livestreamed on the explore.org webcams over the summer — are fattening…
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…
Why you won’t need to eat insects to save the planet
Moving forward requires focus. Mashable’s Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. If…
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,…
Yes, alternative meat can help stop climate change. Here’s why.
Moving forward requires focus. Mashable’s Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. We…
Bill Nye’s minute-long PSA on mask-wearing is as simple as it is effective
If the virus that’s at the center of a global pandemic spreads via respiratory droplets, wouldn’t it make sense to throw all the roadblocks you can in front of those…
A cub died on the bear cams, a testimony of the harsh bear world
While walking along Alaska’s Brooks River on Tuesday, a cub stumbled while viewers watched apprehensively on the bear cams. The clearly enfeebled young bear struggled to keep up with its…
Earth won’t immediately cool off if we slash emissions
The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a record high in May. That’s because humanity kept emitting a prodigious amount of carbon, even through the worst pandemic…
Hungry wolf shows up on bear cams, scarfs dozens of fish
Alaska’s Brooks River, home to the livestreaming bear cams, is the dominion of big, fat bears. Yet early Saturday morning, when the waterfall where the bears feast was quiet, a…