On June 19th, 2021 with 85 comments
The number of new wildfires in the U.S. so far this year is at a ten-year high, according to federal data, prompting warnings of a long, potentially dangerous...
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On June 15th, 2021 with 309 comments
The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest expedition to the Arctic warned Tuesday....
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On June 13th, 2021 with 95 comments
Slashdot reader Charlotte Web writes: The "Group of Seven" (or G7) nations are some of the world's largest economies — the U.S. and Canada, the U.K.,...
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On June 13th, 2021 with 13 comments
Slashdot reader SysEngineer shares this report from the BBC:
Scientists are reporting what they say is the longest sediment avalanche yet measured in action....
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On June 10th, 2021 with 172 comments
Amid an intensifying drought, Lake Mead in Nevada, the nation's largest reservoir by volume, reached its lowest level since the 1930s late Wednesday. From a...
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On June 9th, 2021 with 64 comments
On World Oceans Day, Nat Geo cartographers say the swift current circling Antarctica keeps the waters there distinct and worthy of their own name: the Southern...
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On June 8th, 2021 with 221 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in...
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On June 6th, 2021 with 94 comments
The hills of ice at the base of Alaska's Muldrow Glacier "have sat undisturbed and covered by tundra for more than 60 years," reports the Washington Post,...
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On June 5th, 2021 with 11 comments
"Earthquakes shouldn't occur more than 300 kilometers below Earth's surface, according to most geophysical models," reports Science magazine. "Yet they...
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On June 5th, 2021 with 58 comments
Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs. The BBC...
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On June 3rd, 2021 with 75 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Researchers believe they've now pinpointed a previously unknown planetary-scale reset that...
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On June 2nd, 2021 with 205 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than they have...
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On May 29th, 2021 with 136 comments
"To help realize the possibility of carbon-free applications, Microsoft, the consultancies Accenture and ThoughtWorks, the Linux Foundation, and...
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On May 28th, 2021 with 137 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from LiveScience: The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That's the takeaway...
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On May 26th, 2021 with 69 comments
Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings that may be the largest-ever graphical depictions designed by humans....
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On May 24th, 2021 with 97 comments
Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. "There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than this..." argues author Steven...
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On May 23rd, 2021 with 31 comments
The Guardian reports:
At least 15 people died when torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo destroying...
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On May 23rd, 2021 with 390 comments
"All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history..." reports the...
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On May 21st, 2021 with 76 comments
sciencehabit writes: Death Valley holds the record for the highest air temperature on the planet: On July 10, 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace...
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On May 20th, 2021 with 91 comments
A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest...
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On May 19th, 2021 with 150 comments
Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an...
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On May 18th, 2021 with 192 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: All future fossil fuel projects must be scrapped if the world is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050...
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On May 18th, 2021 with 130 comments
UK plastic waste is being exported to Turkey and then illegally dumped and burned, according to a report. From a report: Greenpeace said about 40% -- or...
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On May 16th, 2021 with 100 comments
Slashdot reader Hmmmmmm quotes the Guardian:
A new study that checked American women's breast milk for PFAS contamination detected the toxic chemical in all...
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On May 14th, 2021 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Humanity's enormous emissions of greenhouse gases are shrinking the stratosphere, a new study has...
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On May 13th, 2021 with 120 comments
New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health, safety and homes. From...
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On May 11th, 2021 with 70 comments
An area of forest the size of France has regrown naturally across the world in the last 20 years, a study suggests. The BBC reports: The restored forests have...
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On May 10th, 2021 with 74 comments
In the absence of humans, the region around Chernobyl is being reclaimed by nature. From a report: 35 years ago a total of 350,000 people were evacuated from...
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On May 10th, 2021 with 32 comments
Gas flaring worldwide decreased by 5 percent in the pandemic year, mostly because of lower demand for oil, according to a recent report from the World Bank....
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On May 10th, 2021 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report from Technology Review: The Massachusetts Audubon Society has long managed its land in western Massachusetts as crucial...
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