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POTUS didn’t waste any time. Just hours after he was sworn in as the nation’s 46th president, Joe Biden began rolling back some of Donald Trump‘s most contested policies. Associated Press reports Biden signed a total of 17 executive actions—15 of which were orders—that cover everything from climate change and the U.S.-Mexico border wall to the coronavirus pandemic and the […]
On top of raging wildfires and intensifying hurricanes, the ocean’s angelic and intelligent mammals, a.k.a. dolphins, are severely suffering from the impacts of the climate crisis. An international study recently published in Scientific Reports links a potentially-fatal skin disease in the animals to climate change. According to the study, dolphins have developed a novel “fresh-water skin […]
Following Joe Biden‘s win on Saturday, the president-elect gave his victory speech that night, where he promised several sweeping changes to take place during his first days in office. Most immediately, the president-elect will tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and establish a coronavirus task force on Monday. The Washington Post reports that the task force will be co-chaired […]
As if 2020 needed anymore regrettable recognition, a new study has determined that last month was the hottest September ever, besting the previous high, which was set just last year, the New York Times reports. The Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last month topped the average for September 2019 by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Another organization known […]
Human activity has forced the world’s wildlife populations to plummet by 68 percent in the last 50 years, with human consumption being the primary culprit. This new data comes from the 2020 Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund, which evaluates population declines in over 4,392 observed species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians […]
It’s been 50 years since scientists have seen a tiny, mouse-sized elephant shrew recently rediscovered in the Horn of Africa. The species is known as the Somali sengi and looks like a very small ant-eater with its trunk-like nose. It’s a talented little fella, who can race around at 20 mph despite its teeny size. […]
Amid the heatwave that struck California over the last few days, Death Valley’s Furnace Creek recorded the hottest recorded temperature in the U.S. since 1913. On Sunday, Furnace Creek in the deserts of Southern California reached a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center confirmed. It is expected that the high temps in SoCal will […]
Donald Trump‘s desperation was, yet again, on full display as his national polling numbers continue to slide. The president appeared at the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday to announce his new executive order to impose sanctions on China. But it wasn’t long before Trump went into full rally mode, and began launching attack after attack on his Democratic […]
As a result of the continued destruction of their habitat, which was only hastened by the 2019-20 bushfires that devastated Australia, koalas could be in danger of going extinct in the state of New South Wales in the near future, according to a year-long parliamentary inquiry. This report, put out on Tuesday, reckons that the animals could die […]
In a year where we’ve already had a once-in-a-century global pandemic, murder hornets, the release of videos showing an “unidentified aerial phenomena,” and the passing of the biggest Sahara dust storm in 50 years, it’s evident that if something out of the ordinary were to occur, it would happen in 2020. So, you shouldn’t be shocked to discover that […]
