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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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, ...
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: ...
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 ...
How the World Gave up on 1.5 Degrees
When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the ...
Shein Is Officially the Biggest Polluter in Fast Fashion. AI Is Making Things Worse
In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing ...
Scientists Just Got Closer to Solving a Major Antarctic Puzzle
Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking ...
Taking Big Oil to Court for ‘Climate Homicide’ Isn’t as Far-Fetched as It Sounds
A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the ...
Under Pressure From Activist Investors, Big Brands Agree to Report and Reduce Plastics Use
Wealthy investors and asset managers wield a lot of power over the major companies whose stock they own or control. Every year, ...
