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CNN reports the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk had the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, an alarming discovery for a place that posts an average high of 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the month of June. While the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) understands that Siberia is known for its large swings in month-to-month and yearly temperature, Verkhoyansk’s […]
While most of the snow in Antarctica is white, snow found on its coast can be green—and as global temperatures rise, more green snow has been found across the continent. Small amounts of green snow have always been visible in Antarctica, which is caused by microscopic algae blooming on top of the snow, according to a […]
Treating the space of a metropolis like a makeshift art gallery was key in the inspiration behind Grimes‘ Miss Anthropocene–promoting billboard campaign. As you may or may not have been made privy to, one particular billboard—the one that reads GLOBAL WARMING IS GOOD—came about after Grimes decided that the fear she first felt when conceptual […]
In the past month, Jeff Bezos was publicly shamed for donating $690,000 to Australian wildlife relief, and also was called out by his own employees over Amazon’s record on climate change. So, on Monday, the world’s richest man (with an estimated net worth of nearly $130 billion) openly shared a pledge to give $10 billion […]
It has been said time and time again—Earth is headed to hell in a hand basket. Now, a new study titled “Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019” further proves this fact by taking a look at the world’s oceans and showing just how much of an absolute disaster we have created. You know, to put it lightly. The study looks at the temperature […]
We have 10 years to save the Earth’s remaining wildlife. According to a new draft plan released by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, almost a third of the world will need to be protected by 2030 and we will need to cut pollution in half in order to save our fragile biodiversity. The plan […]
Last year was the second-hottest year ever recorded. The only year that has been hotter than 2019 was 2016, which was only warmer by 0.04 degrees Celsius, according to a new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union’s flagship climate monitoring organization. The report found that the last five years and this […]
The second half of the Harvard vs. Yale football game was delayed by close to an hour after spectators rushed the field to advocate for action against climate change. After the Yale band finished its halftime performance, students from both schools flooded the field. Protestors held banners asking the colleges to act on climate change and send […]
During the 1950s and ’60s the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs in or near the Marshall Islands. After that they also used the same islands to test out biological weapons. After that they took the irradiated soil and dumped it into a crater that was formed by a nuclear blast. To put it in easy-to-understand […]
“Untold suffering” is to come by way of the increasingly-ignored-by-the-Powers-That-Be issue of climate change, thousands of scientists warned Tuesday. “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” the statement, first published in the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ journal BioScience on Tuesday, reads. “On […]
