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For this marine tech, Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier drives home threat of...
At the shoreline of a small, rocky island just off the coast of West Antarctica, Joee Patterson stood in a 25-foot, inflatable Zodiac boat. She was lowering the engine, preparing to ferry a group from...
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This Australian airline invites you to ‘sit back and enjoy the world’s first...
This spring, passengers on a Wednesday morning flight from Sydney to Adelaide, Australia, were greeted in the usual way — the flight attendant telling them to place larger bags in overhead...
View ArticleNew report finds subsidies for coal are rising, not falling, in G20 countries
Ten years ago, the G20 group of top economies pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies to help fight the climate crisis.But as G20 leaders prepare to meet in Japan on Friday, a new study finds that...
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If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever
Days after the Nathaniel B. Palmer became the first ship to sail across the 75-mile face of West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, a piece of its floating ice shelf bigger than Manhattan crumbled off the...
View ArticleGreenpeace releases scorecard for Democratic presidential candidates'...
Climate change was barely mentioned during the 2016 presidential election, but this time around many Democratic presidential contenders are pledging climate action.With over twenty Democratic...
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Villagers accuse city of seizing water as drought parches 'India's Detroit'
In the small village of Bangarampettai, 20 miles from India's manufacturing capital of Chennai, about 150 people last month "captured" a water tanker, breaking its windscreen and deflating its tires...
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A total solar eclipse in an astronomer's paradise
Hundreds of thousands of tourists scattered across the north Chilean desert on Tuesday to experience a rare, and irresistible combination for astronomy buffs: a total eclipse of the sun viewed from...
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One arctic fox’s incredible journey from Norway to Canada
Norwegian scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute fitted around 50 coastal or blue foxes with tracking collars to find out how much they depended on sea ice to get around. While observing the...
View ArticleThe next UN Climate Change Summit aims to push the world to do more and do it...
The United Nations is gearing up for a climate summit in New York in September, and already a number of nations have hinted they plan to boost the "intended nationally determined commitments," or...
View ArticleBurkina Faso is fighting malaria — with genetically modified mosquitoes
Scientists hit a major turning point Monday in the small village of Bana in Burkina Faso — a west African country that experienced some 4,000 malaria deaths last year.They coated about 10,000...
View ArticleAfter 25 years, a Nigerian widow still seeks justice for her husband and the...
This May, Esther Kiobel came one step closer to justice in her battle against the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company.Kiobel has pursued the oil giant for nearly 25 years, since the Nigerian government...
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Europe's latest heat wave is part of a 'new normal'
Some of Europe is cooling down from a record-breaking heat wave, while other places have seen the mercury creep back up.Unprecedented high temperatures have led to recent school closures, wildfires,...
View ArticleTensions rise in Gulf after oil tanker standoff between Iran and the UK
Three Iranian vessels tried to block a British-owned tanker passing through the strait that controls the flow of oil from the Middle East to the world but backed off when confronted by a Royal Navy...
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Bolsonaro reignites decades-old fight over land between Indigenous people and...
Izabel Itikawa remembers the day the Brazilian government came and threw her out of her home — a farm in the Amazon. She said police showed up waving a judicial order.“I was expelled from my property,...
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Mick Jagger wants you to stop throwing away your plastic cups
Across the globe, we’ve developed a coffee addiction, and we’re not just talking about dependence on our morning pick-me-up. We’ve become addicted to single-use cups: 600 billion disposable cups (for...
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Climate crisis? What climate crisis? US blocked consensus on climate action...
While disruption of the climate seems to be advancing quickly, climate protection negotiators in Bonn, Germany, recently struggled to flesh out the mechanisms of the Paris climate agreement. And at the...
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A #MeToo scandal engulfs The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy, which since its founding in 1951 has protected some 120 million acres of land around the world, is being rocked by a vast scandal that includes allegations of workplace...
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HBO's 'Ice on Fire' focuses on solutions to the grave dangers posed by...
A new HBO documentary, “Ice on Fire,” produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, issues a dire warning about the consequences of climate disruption, but also seeks to inspire people to follow proven,...
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Transplanting resilient corals may help them survive climate change
More than half the world’s coral reefs have died in the last few decades and scientists predict that as many as 90% could die off this century as the ocean chemistry changes and temperatures rise. But...
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In 'Hadestown,' Greek mythology and climate change come to Broadway
According to ancient Greek myth, Hades, ruler of the underworld, kidnaps the goddess Persephone, who represents nature and renewal, which brings about the first winter on Earth. For composer and writer...
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