Global Warming

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is one of the leading voices on climate action in North America. In the most recent episode of her Global Weirding webseries — the second in a two-part series — she discusses the impact on and relationship between global warming and human action in the wake of…

Branching staghorn coral, acropora, is completely bleached during the 2017 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Picture was taken on Pixie Reef. Brett Monroe Garner / Moment / Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching…

A new Stanford study reveals that a common scientific approach of predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events by analyzing how frequently they occurred in the past can lead to significant underestimates -- with potentially significant consequences for people's lives. Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh found that predictions that…

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One gigatonne of ice. Image: nasa / JPL-Caltech By Mark Kaufman2020-03-13 16:16:17 UTC The greatest masses of ice on Earth, in Antarctica and Greenland, aren't just melting — this melt is accelerating.  How much ice are these critical polar regions losing into the oceans? NASA uses satellites to diligently measure…

Photo: Valerie Macon (Getty Images)Britney Spears still gets roasted for a 2014 tweet in which she appears to praise Lady Gaga and global warming in a single post. It turns out, however, that, no, she doesn’t think global warming is a good thing and Twitter, as so often is the…

America: where you can care about improving energy efficiency without wanting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions outright.Photo: GettyThe first major Senate energy package in over a decade may not survive because a few Republicans are trying to block regulations on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas that can be found…

Photo: GettyThe U.S. government definitely has its priorities in order. Apparently, it’s considering using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to pour money into fossil fuel companies.The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration is considering kicking money to the beleaguered industry after Saudi Arabia kicked off an oil price…

Shit got real Monday, March 9, when trading stopped on Wall Street due to crashing oil prices.Image: GettyThe worsening global crisis wrought by COVID-19 is leading to canceled international negotiations and wasteful “ghost” flights. And now it’s projected to lead to the first drop in oil demand in more than…

"This season is based on my belief that we have what it takes to get to a real exciting future," Druyan said in an interview with Engadget. "I base my belief on stories of the courage of our ancestors, the generations of searchers for the truth who have been willing…