Articles tagged "global warming"

Five maps, charts, and graphs that prove the planet's screwed.

Welcome to the trash sauna.

Life in a world where carbon accounts for 400 parts per million is going to be quite different from the old 280 ppm world. The climate is now fundamentally different than it was 40, 30, even 20 years ago.

The Arctic is melting, so Obama is sending the military north.

The average ocean wave height is going to decline, say scientists who have completed the first intensive models on the subject.

A new study explains how exhaust, sea spray, pine forests, and other stinks help create a natural sunscreen.

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been in 3 million years. And there were no humans back then.

But that's bad news for the world's air conditioning addiction.

Bear in mind, these are the words of a scientist, not a preacher going on about the rapture.

So Antarctica is probably going to turn into a giant slushy sooner rather than later.

In his dying days, the legendary film critic had more on his mind than movies.

Vancouver didn't have enough snow in 2010. Russia fears the same for 2014. So they both took extreme measures.

Mad scientist-types are about to start screwing with the planet—we should have a plan with how to deal with them.

A floating school was just built in Nigeria. First the school, next, an entire buoyant city.

Another week, another onslaught of news about how catastrophically fucked our human-stuffed toaster of a planet is.

Real world concerns, like new Arctic shipping lanes, don't need your leap of faith.

It's a good thing robots are stealing our jobs, because in about thirty years, we're not going to do any of them anymore.

Unfortunately, the "biggest" isn't all that big.

Global warming helped build one Nemo, but it's going to kill a whole bunch of other ones.

A pre-forum report lays out a grim vision of the future, one rife with acidic oceans, rogue geoengineers, human cyborgs, and aliens.

If you live in a city on the East Coast, you just lived through the hottest year on the books.

There's a lot of reasons humanity is having such a hard time cutting back on greenhouse gases. It's not just fake scientists and deniers, and/or the dollars of heavy industry. There is also the actually real issue of vagueness. A study out this week

The two top presidential candidates have been notably silent on one of the most urgent issues of our time, but Barack Obama and Mitt Romney weren't always so tight-lipped on climate change. Back in their 2007-2008, for instance, when both men were al…