Polar Bears are Definitely Screwed
Continually melting ice caps and shifting seasons are wreaking havoc on these creatures' lives.
Continually melting ice caps and shifting seasons are wreaking havoc on these creatures' lives.
Who runs the world? Why lizards, of course. But their reign might be coming to an end, thanks to global warming. Read more >>
Other countries are now expected to follow suit.
For the record, planet Earth is still in the Holocene.
It can be hard to grasp the reality of a process playing out incrementally, globally, and over the course of generations. It’s much easier if you have a compelling visualisation.
Hope you’re ready to face the day with nothing but your own unsharpened wits about you. Soon, they will be all you have left.
Some university lecturers are about to be murdered by Big Oil assassins.
So now that scientists react to global warming with an almost charming amount of indifference, it’s about finding different ways to measure the amount of ice near our poles.
These beautiful blue lakes are invading Antarctica, and that's not a good thing. Read More >>
If sending your kids to live on extraterrestrial Chernobyl sounds unappealing, good news. There may be a more pacifistic way to warm up Mars.
These gadgets are easy to build and most can be up and running in under an hour.
Earlier this year, record warm ocean waters triggered a massive coral die-off in the Great Barrier Reef, prompting a flurry of scientific research into the underlying cause. Now, for the first time, biologists have captured the process of coral bleaching as it happens, showing us how corals kill themselves in gory scientific detail. Read more >>
A sobering new study shows that by the 2084 Olympics, rising temperatures will make it practically impossible for most cities to host the summer games.
At least, according to science.
Since 1992 scientists have watched it rise at a steady 3 millimetres per year. Now, after more than twenty years of head-scratching, we finally have an explanation.
Venus has a rep for being a toxic hellscape. But three billion years ago, it may have been the best piece of real estate our solar system had to offer.