Antarctica still losing ice despite big rise in snowfall
Snowfall in Antarctica has increased by 10 per cent since 1800, an analysis of ice cores from Antarctica…
Why This Giant Crack Opened Up In Kenya’s Rift Valley
Mai Mahiu-Narok road, in a region just west of Nairobi, Kenya, used to be fully intact. Then, after…
Your old computer could be a better source of metals than a mine
From your water-logged phone to your smashed smart TV, those personal electronics headed for the landfill are a…
2018 Hurricane Season May Be Busier Than Normal
It may seem like we just said goodbye to Harvey, Irma, and Maria, but the new hurricane season…
‘Life or death’ preperations for Yellowstone supervolcano emergency
Yellowstone National Park Public Affairs confirmed that there could be a supervolcano eruption imminently – and that they…
Trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has More Than Quadrupled
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is getting denser. The enormous plastic soup floating in the vast North Pacific…
Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising
Rising seas aren’t the only problem facing low-lying coastal areas. Many of these areas are also sinking, vastly…
We already have planet-cooling technology, the problem is, it’s killing us.
A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure to tackle climate…