Antarctica Is in Extreme Peril
Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in ...
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The International Seabed Authority’s War With Itself
For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in ...
This Fuel Is 50% Plastic — and It’s Slipping Through a Loophole in International Waste Law
Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify ...
How Reducing the US Military Budget Would Also Reduce Emissions
The next time you’re on a flight worrying about destroying the planet, rest easy knowing that at least you’re not ...
Pollution From Wildfires Can Contaminate Our Water for up to 8 Years, Study Finds
When wildfires devastated a wide swath of Los Angeles last winter, officials warned residents of several ZIP codes not to ...
Climate Disasters Can Alter Kids’ Brains — Before They’re Even Born
When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan, ...
How Much Meat Can You Eat and Still Be ‘Climate-Friendly?’
From climate-smart beef to organic and grass-fed options, the meat industry has no shortage of marketing strategies to sell you ...
The Weird Way That Penguin Poop Might Be Cooling Antarctica
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: ...
Eight of the Top 10 Online Shows Are Spreading Climate Misinformation
Gone are the days when “Global warming isn’t real” was the primary claim of those most vocally opposed to climate ...
‘Spiral of Silence’: Climate Action Is Very Popular, so Why Don’t People Realise It?
The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% project — and highlight ...
Earth’s Orbit Is Filling Up With Junk. Greenhouse Gases Are Making the Problem Worse.
At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...
4 Potential Climate Solutions — and Their Viability
In an unexpected but no-less-depressing development, NASA has announced that 2024 was the hottest year on record. This wasn’t an anomaly, ...
