Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2
Green Guardians There's no shortage of worldwide efforts aimed at planting millions of more trees to help offset our planet's CO2-poisoned atmosphere. But entrepreneurial scientists at a biotech firm...
View ArticleStudy Finds That Solar Power Is on Track to Dominate Electric Grids
Sun Rise Solar power is on track to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050 — surpassing even fossil fuels — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications....
View Article15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change
Ring the Alarm Scientists are again ringing alarm bells over climate change's devastating effects on the planet — and this time, they're saying the Earth's rapidly changing environment may result in a...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Is Even Worse Than We Thought, Scientist Says
Climate Climb In 1988, climate scientist James Hansen shook the world when he famously testified before Congress that global warming was affecting our planet. Now, the former director of NASA's Goddard...
View ArticleAs Climate Doom Looms, We're Drilling For More Fossil Fuels Than Ever Before
Drill, Baby, Drill A new United Nations report has found that despite promises to cut back, the world's top oil producers are on track to drill for more fossil fuels than ever before. Fittingly titled...
View ArticleExxon Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did Climate Change
Nothing to See Here This just in: once again, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods has some thoughts on that whole pesky climate crisis. Bloomberg reports that in a Wednesday speech at the San Francisco-held...
View ArticleScientists Say These Villains Are Causing Way More Than Their Share of...
Big Carbon As some climatologists fret over the morality of flying on an airplane, the richest among us haven't curbed their lifestyle due to any climate change concerns — and are actually spending far...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Apparently Scheming to Get Poor Countries Addicted to Oil
False Note The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is publicly committed to curbing carbon emissions — but apparently that's just lip service, according to a new investigation that found the petrostate has plans...
View ArticleCarbon Dioxide Is Becoming More Fearsome, Scientists Find
Beat the Heat New research has found that the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide, the gas primarily responsible for making our planet hotter, becomes even more potent as as more of it is emitted. That...
View ArticleHead of Climate Conference Who Happens to Be an Oil Exec Says Actually Fossil...
An Emirati oil executive has landed in hot water after claiming that there's "no science" behind phasing out fossil fuels to keep global temperatures from creeping above 1.5 degrees Celsius, an...
View ArticleScientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap
For the past two weeks, the world's best and brightest have been meeting in Dubai — under a glittering, color-changing dome built to resemble Islamic geometric art — as the petrostate hosts the United...
View ArticleGuy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many...
No Treegrets In 2019, ecologist Thomas Crowther sparked a global tree-planting craze to offset carbon emissions. But now the former chief scientific adviser for the United Nation's Trillion Trees...
View ArticleBillions in Funding Pouring Into Facilities for Sucking Carbon From Atmosphere
Buried Promises Despite pledges from countries to do better, some analysts think the world will keep burning fossil fuel for decades and even consume more of it in coming years — which isn't so cool...
View ArticleScientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It's Horrifying
Greenhouse of Usher For the first time, a team of researchers has simulated what would happen if trapped greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere trigger a snowball effect, causing a dramatic rise in...
View ArticleWildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves,...
Wild Things The world is undergoing an insect apocalypse, with our buggy friends experiencing global mass population decreases at an estimated 2 percent yearly due to a woeful combination of climate...
View ArticleSatellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking
Sinking Feeling Carefully mapped satellite imagery shows that America's East Coast — particularly its major population centers — is sinking at an eerily rapid pace, according to a new study conducted...
View ArticleScientists Attempt to Explain Craters Exploding Out of the Earth
Crater Creator Sudden and violent explosions have been leaving behind massive craters in the permafrost of Siberia — some nearly 70 feet wide and over 170 feet deep. The phenomenon has puzzled...
View ArticleVideo Shows Huge Wave Smashing Military Base, Blowing Doors of Hinges
Wave Function Terrifying footage circulating on social media shows a massive rogue wave hitting a US military base in the Marshall Islands. The force of the water is immense, ripping doors off their...
View ArticleScientists Working on Plan to Cool Earth by Blocking Sun
Giant Umbrella Scientists are exploring a wild idea to stop our planet from overheating: sending umbrellas into space to block the Sun's warming ways. And they're ready to put the idea to the test. As...
View ArticleNASA's Launches Mission to Study Earth's 'Invisible Universe'
Zooming Out After a nine year wait, NASA's finally launched its PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem) mission, which will take a never-before-seen look at the tiny life forms and...
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