Should We Be Alarmed by Greenland Ice Melt?
Answer: yes and no. Yes, Greenland is already melting much faster than in recent history. And yes, this will cause sea levels to rise two to…
You’d Never Guess What’s Under Here
Two men surveying the Antarctica’s Ferrigno Glacier, which is rapidly melting, have detected something so awesome they could scarcely believe it at first. But it’s there,…
Best Simple Book on Climate Change
Pound for pound, I’d rate Global Weirdness, the new book from the folks at Climate Central, the best book I’ve come across for a simple, objective, science-based explanation of what climate change is and how it’s affecting the planet.
Climate Change IS a Hoax!
Yes, that’s the conclusion of renowned activist Bill McKibben, who now concedes that when it comes to global warming: the floods in Minnesota that even drowned…
World on Unsustainable Track, Says U.N.
As world leaders prepare for the Rio+20 environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations report says that despite over 500 internationally agreed goals and…
U.S. Cities Worst Prepared for Climate Change
What’s wrong with this country? While cities around the world are making plans to deal with climate change, cities in the United States are just sitting around like there’s no tomorrow. Which, at this rate, there won’t be.
Warmest Spring on Record
The spring of 2012 is set to go down as the warmest in the U.S. since records began to be kept in 1895. The previous record…
Interactive Map of Temperature Records
Check out this remarkable map of records around the country since the year 2000 – courtesy of Climate Central. See where your own neck of the…
131 Years of Global Warming in 30 Seconds
This video from NASA shows how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1880.
How Earth Recovered from an Earlier Extinction
How long might it take to recover from the Sixth Great Extinction that scientists tell us is now underway? The most well known extinction event was the one that brought an end to the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That was the Fifth Great Extinction.
Sun to Moon: “I’m Off to Bed.”
My camera couldn’t do justice to the eclipse last night, but here are a couple of photos that capture exactly what it looked like from outside…
Twenty-Four Hours Above the Indian Ocean
High above the Indian ocean, a geo-stationary Russian weather satellite captures high-resolution photos of the planet. Videographer James Drake has put the images together into a…
The World Is Not Enough (Soon We’ll Need Two More)
Scientist Stephen Hawking argues that since one day we may have to leave Planet Earth, we may as well get started on the project. But if…
Running from Climate Change Getting Tougher
Some of our closest cousins, like the howler monkey in this photo, are finding it harder to escape from climate change fast enough. A new study,…
“Game Over” for Climate Warns Top NASA Scientist
From pristine forest to world-polluting wasteland – Photos by Peter Essick, 2009 James Hansen, the NASA scientist who’s considered the leading expert on climate science has…
Going Naked to Keep Dead Sea Alive
Not far from the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, a thousand Israelis gathered in the nude. But they weren’t planning a biblical orgy, and no…
App-ing Your Way around Yellowstone
I thought one of the joys of visiting the great national parks was to leave our technobabble behind – at least for a few hours. Silly…
The Elephant on Mars
A sanctuary on Mars for elephants spirited out of zoos by Bob Barker? No, just the latest “face” seen in hi-res photos from Mars. This one…
But What Would Erik von Daniken Say?
The high plains of southern Peru are famous for the Nazca Lines – animal shapes about an eighth of a mile long that were carved into the high plateau land around 400 C.E. and were once thought by some, like the controversial author Erik von Daniken, to have been landing strips for extraterrestrials.
Ousted Leader Tries to Save Nation from Drowning
Two years ago, the new president of the Maldives held a cabinet meeting in the ocean as he tried to draw attention to the fact that his island nation is being submerged by the rising sea.