climate change

Your World This Week, Nov. 2-Nov. 8

Your primer on climate change this week: Antarctica is actually gaining ice (but scientists aren’t jumping for joy), rising temperatures may make the Persian Gulf uninhabitable by 2090, increasing temperatures mean falling wages, and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise in spite of our best efforts to cut greenhouse...

By John Kuroski • Nov 2, 2015

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Your World This Week, Nov. 2-Nov. 8

Your primer on climate change this week: Antarctica is actually gaining ice (but scientists aren’t jumping for joy), rising temperatures may make the Persian Gulf uninhabitable by 2090, increasing temperatures mean falling wages, and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise in spite of our best efforts to cut greenhouse...

By John Kuroski • November 2, 2015

Photo Of The Day: An Emaciated Polar Bear Reveals Its Species’ Grim Future

One photograph paints a bleak future for polar bears throughout the Arctic.

By All That's Interesting • Sep 10, 2015

Photo Of The Day: An Emaciated Polar Bear Reveals Its Species’ Grim Future

One photograph paints a bleak future for polar bears throughout the Arctic.

By All That's Interesting • September 10, 2015

Your World This Week, Volume VII

President Obama Issues Strongest Clean Power Plan Ever By An American President Healthcare? Check. Marriage Equality? Check. Cutting carbon pollution? Check. Now that the end is in sight, it seems that President Obama is finally becoming the man that so many voted for in 2008. Just this week, Barack Obama...

By John Kuroski • Aug 3, 2015

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Your World This Week, Volume VII

President Obama Issues Strongest Clean Power Plan Ever By An American President Healthcare? Check. Marriage Equality? Check. Cutting carbon pollution? Check. Now that the end is in sight, it seems that President Obama is finally becoming the man that so many voted for in 2008. Just this week, Barack Obama...

By John Kuroski • August 3, 2015

Beer-Powered Cars And The Future Of Energy

Climate change and the global energy crisis have escalated to the point where if we want to reverse or limit their impacts, something drastic must be done-and fast. The potentially dire circumstances are enough to drive anyone to the bottle, and for a few people, it already has—albeit for honorable...

By All That's Interesting • Jul 27, 2015

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Beer-Powered Cars And The Future Of Energy

Climate change and the global energy crisis have escalated to the point where if we want to reverse or limit their impacts, something drastic must be done-and fast. The potentially dire circumstances are enough to drive anyone to the bottle, and for a few people, it already has—albeit for honorable...

By All That's Interesting • July 27, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • Jul 9, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • July 9, 2015

20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

By Savannah Cox • Jun 18, 2015

Science News

20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

By Savannah Cox • June 18, 2015

25 Global Warming Photos That Prove You Have No More Excuses Not To “Get” Climate Change

The effects of global warming are quite contentious among people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Unfortunately, that includes most people who don’t have PhDs in atmospheric science, chemistry or meteorology, so we’re all in kind of a tight spot, information-wise. As far as the ordinary media consumer knows,...

By Richard Stockton • Mar 6, 2015

25 Global Warming Photos That Prove You Have No More Excuses Not To “Get” Climate Change

The effects of global warming are quite contentious among people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Unfortunately, that includes most people who don’t have PhDs in atmospheric science, chemistry or meteorology, so we’re all in kind of a tight spot, information-wise. As far as the ordinary media consumer knows,...

By Richard Stockton • March 6, 2015

20 Alarming Photos Of The Disappearing Amazon Rainforest

One of the world's largest carbon sinks and biodiversity storehouses, the deforestation of the Amazon should be something that worries us all.

By Erin Kelly • Dec 15, 2014

20 Alarming Photos Of The Disappearing Amazon Rainforest

One of the world's largest carbon sinks and biodiversity storehouses, the deforestation of the Amazon should be something that worries us all.

By Erin Kelly • December 15, 2014

Google Earth Images From The Past And Present Paint A Grim Future

Aerial photography can make slums and ransacked rainforests seem beautiful. These images use Google Earth to capture a different picture.

By All That's Interesting • Nov 11, 2014

Google Earth Images From The Past And Present Paint A Grim Future

Aerial photography can make slums and ransacked rainforests seem beautiful. These images use Google Earth to capture a different picture.

By All That's Interesting • November 11, 2014

Six Animal Signs That Planet Earth Is Sick

Perhaps animals are smarter and more sensitive than homo sapiens give them credit for. Take, for example, the theory that animals can predict earthquakes, a notion that dates all the way back to 373 B.C., when historians reported that creatures such as rats, snakes and weasels hightailed it out of...

By All That's Interesting • Nov 24, 2013

Six Animal Signs That Planet Earth Is Sick

Perhaps animals are smarter and more sensitive than homo sapiens give them credit for. Take, for example, the theory that animals can predict earthquakes, a notion that dates all the way back to 373 B.C., when historians reported that creatures such as rats, snakes and weasels hightailed it out of...

By All That's Interesting • November 24, 2013