Climate Change: ‘Unequivocal … Irreversible’
Another voice joins the chorus of scientists warning that it’s too late to turn back the tide of climate change. The train has left the station,…
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Climate Change: from War to Brain Damage
As climate change accelerates, our warming planet is driving crises that range from war on one side of the globe to brain-damaged babies on the other. A few reports from recent…
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Climate News to Make Your Blood Boil
What a week for climate change. A blizzard of new studies and reports. Let’s start in the Middle East – you know, that place where we dig up more oil than anywhere else in…
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Ocean Circulation May Be Shutting Down
Remember the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, where fresh water from melting polar ice pours into the North Atlantic, pushing down the warm salt water and causing ocean currents…
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Almost Toast
You might reasonably assume that the red line in this diagram illustrates what happens if humankind takes no action at all on climate change. But no, what the red line actually…
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What Really Sparked the War in Syria
Satellite image showing Syria at focal point of Middle East drought. It’s horrific, intractable, seemingly endless … and quite possibly the shape of other wars to come.…
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Climate Change for Dummies
Global Warming As Sung by a Violin
Move Over, H7N9 – Here Comes MERS
It’s the Ecology, Stupid
“I get on my knees every day, and I’m saying an extra prayer right now,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters, adding that he’d be doing…
Largest U.S. Natural Disaster Ever
Not an earthquake, hurricane or tornado cluster; it’s the drought that’s burning up half the country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas…
About Earth in Transition
In a world that’s under serious and increasing stress, the mission of Earth in Transition is to transform the way we relate to our fellow animals,…
Where the Earth Has Legal Rights
Bolivia’s Law of Mother Earth recognizes that all living things have certain legal rights, and that the natural world has equal status to human beings.
Giant Turtle Returned to the Ocean
A touching video of a giant leatherback turtle being rescued and returned to the ocean on the beaches of Grenada. Check out the work of the…
Where in the World Is All the Water?
If you took all the water in the world and scooped it into one big ball – the oceans, ice caps, rivers, wells, clouds, the water…
Perpetual Ocean
This remarkable video of our living ocean planet shows how ocean currents flowed around the world during the period from June 2005 through December 2007. The…
Climate Change – Looking Back to See Ahead
What can we learn about the near future on Earth by looking back at eons gone by? Quite a lot, according to scientists from the U.S.…
Dramatic Change Coming in Food We Eat
The new foods will be the result of fierce demand and resource pressures on food worldwide, astonishing new technologies, and emerging trends in diet, farming, healthcare and sustainability.
Oceans Turning Acid at ‘Unparalleled’ Rate
The world’s oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Science.
Weather Extremes Now Clearly Due to Climate Change
While scientists have been leery of attributing specific droughts, heat waves and other weather events to climate change, you can now definitely draw the connection. The big Texas and Oklahoma droughts, for example, are indeed a direct result of climate change.
Winter at Zion
It’s been a dry winter so far here in canyon country, but it snowed a bit a couple of days ago, so I drove over to Zion National Park for a few hours yesterday afternoon.
How Animals Predict Earthquakes
Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur when an earthquake is about to strike.
The New Seven Natural Wonders
The new Seven Natural Wonders began with 440 nominees, and involved two years of voting by millions of people around the world. And now a new list has been unveiled.
Amazing Photos
Beautiful and captivating photo submissions for the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011.
Faces from the Past
At the time when the Roman Empire was collapsing, here in the American Southwest it was the birth of the Ancestral Pueblo people. A visit to their cave paintings at Indian Canyon.
Life Began When Earth Was Still Boiling
Life on Earth began earlier than anyone has imagined possible. That’s the conclusion of scientists studying a 3.4-billion-year-old fossil discovered in Western Australia.
Hot as Hell
Temperatures in more than 16 states were expected to climb over 110 degrees today, and with little relief in sight. The National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings.
Life Without Big Animals
What happens when we shoot the wolves, hunt down the elephants, harpoon the whales, fish out the salmon? The answer is: it’s really bad for us, not just for those animals. And if we needed proof, we now have it.