Climate Change(Page 24)

As greenhouse gas emissions rise, so does the intensity and weirdness of our climate system. This is what you need to know.

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Environment

Guess how many giant patches of garbage there are in the ocean now?

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Uganda forest
Environment

Stopping deforestation might be easier than we thought

By Mary Beth Griggs

Protecting our children from climate change might take more than just cutting emissions
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Protecting our children from climate change might take more than just cutting emissions

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Discarded oyster shells can help us grow food, make cement, and fight climate change
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Discarded oyster shells can help us grow food, make cement, and fight climate change

By Marlene Cimons

It’s not your imagination: 2017 has been abnormally hot so far
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It’s not your imagination: 2017 has been abnormally hot so far

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Here’s how we were able to see that giant chunk of ice break off of Antarctica
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Here’s how we were able to see that giant chunk of ice break off of Antarctica

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

An iceberg the size of Delaware just broke off of Antarctica
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An iceberg the size of Delaware just broke off of Antarctica

By Marlene Cimons

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Environment

Entrepreneurs are turning trash into food, drink, and clean energy

By Marlene Cimons

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change
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Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Greenland’s ice sheet is full of toxins waiting to break free—and microbes that eat them
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Greenland’s ice sheet is full of toxins waiting to break free—and microbes that eat them

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

As the Arctic gets warmer, our winters get colder
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As the Arctic gets warmer, our winters get colder

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

30 percent of the energy sent to Earth bounces back into outer space. Climate change could upend that.
Environment

30 percent of the energy sent to Earth bounces back into outer space. Climate change could upend that.

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

What moral code should your self-driving car follow?
Technology

What moral code should your self-driving car follow?

By Marlene Cimons

Topher White installs a cell phone listening device.
Environment

This engineer is using old cell phones to stop illegal logging

By Jeremy Deaton

Clear summer skies are making Greenland’s ice sheet melt even faster
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Clear summer skies are making Greenland’s ice sheet melt even faster

By Aparna Nathan

If you live in the South, climate change could kill your economy
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If you live in the South, climate change could kill your economy

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

This dress changes color to show how polluted your air is
Environment

This dress changes color to show how polluted your air is

By Owen Agnew

snow leopard
Environment

Meet eight species living on the brink, thanks to weather and climate change

By Mary Beth Griggs

Researchers say we have three years to act on climate change before it’s too late
Environment

Researchers say we have three years to act on climate change before it’s too late

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about
Environment

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about

By Sara Chodosh

*Pseudomonas syringae*
Environment

Bacteria in the sky may help to make it rain

By Veronique Greenwood

Researches installed artificial coralline algae to test their ability to attract marine micro-fauna.
Environment

Artificial algae could help save our oceans

By Marlene Cimons

Here’s what happens when lightning doesn’t hit the ground
Environment

Here’s what happens when lightning doesn’t hit the ground

By Claire Maldarelli

Most people don’t see how climate change is affecting their lives—and that’s a problem
Environment

Most people don’t see how climate change is affecting their lives—and that’s a problem

By Hillary Rosner

Clouds
Environment

Some clouds are full of little lollipop-shaped ice crystals

By Marlene Cimons

Climate change will make your coffee cost more and taste worse
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Climate change will make your coffee cost more and taste worse

By Sara Chodosh

Don’t believe our planet is warming up? Look at this.
Environment

Don’t believe our planet is warming up? Look at this.

By Rachel Feltman

Three-quarters of the planet could face deadly heatwaves by 2100
Environment

Three-quarters of the planet could face deadly heatwaves by 2100

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Toxic mercury levels are actually declining in Alaskan polar bears—but that’s not as great as it sounds
Environment

Toxic mercury levels are actually declining in Alaskan polar bears—but that’s not as great as it sounds

By Aparna Nathan

How a 93-year-old war vet (and his sneakers) are helping NASA track pollution
Environment

How a 93-year-old war vet (and his sneakers) are helping NASA track pollution

By Marlene Cimons

Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there’s still hope
Environment

Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there’s still hope

By Marlene Cimons

Why whales are back in New York City
Environment

Why whales are back in New York City

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

zinc oxide
Environment

A common sunscreen could help make better solar panels

By Marlene Cimons

The President’s decision to leave the Paris Agreement will likely hurt America even more than the environment
Environment

The President’s decision to leave the Paris Agreement will likely hurt America even more than the environment

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Shoreline of Lake Mono
Environment

Climate change will mean more rain for some—and none for others

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Early signs of mortality on bleached coral colony.
Environment

Hawaii’s most popular coral reefs are in big trouble

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Replacing beef with beans could save the planet, because people farts are better than cow farts
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Replacing beef with beans could save the planet, because people farts are better than cow farts

By Marlene Cimons

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Environment

Climate change might literally keep us up at night

By Marlene Cimons

The Space Shuttle Endeavor above the Earth's atmosphere.
Environment

Global warming is not ‘leveling off,’ so stop saying it is

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Why we have more and more days without frost
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Why we have more and more days without frost

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Turns out the Svalbard seed vault is probably fine
Environment

Turns out the Svalbard seed vault is probably fine

By Mary Beth Griggs

Trees might actually make summer air pollution even worse
Environment

Trees might actually make summer air pollution even worse

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin is waddling towards extinction
Environment

New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin is waddling towards extinction

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

This remote island in the South Pacific is covered in 18 tons of our trash
Environment

This remote island in the South Pacific is covered in 18 tons of our trash

By Sarah Fecht

We may be closer to predicting the extreme rain events of the future
Environment

We may be closer to predicting the extreme rain events of the future

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

icebridge
Science

19 of the coolest images from NASA’s Operation IceBridge

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Historic floods are ravaging Canada
Environment

Historic floods are ravaging Canada

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back
Environment

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back

By Marlene Cimons

Lizards might lose their gut bacteria to climate change—and that’s not great
Environment

Lizards might lose their gut bacteria to climate change—and that’s not great

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises
Environment

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Stephen Hawking says we have 100 years to colonize a new planet—or die. Could we do it?
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Stephen Hawking says we have 100 years to colonize a new planet—or die. Could we do it?

By Sarah Fecht

Artificial snow might save a glacier in the Swiss Alps
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Artificial snow might save a glacier in the Swiss Alps

By Sarah Fecht

Your air conditioning habit makes summer smog worse
Environment

Your air conditioning habit makes summer smog worse

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

These conservatives want to convince you that climate change is real
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These conservatives want to convince you that climate change is real

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

blood falls
Environment

Antarctica’s Blood Falls: not so mysterious, but still freaky as heck

By Rachel Feltman

Why big animals can’t take a little rain
Environment

Why big animals can’t take a little rain

By Marlene Cimons

Apparently the end of the world is going to make us all work out more
Environment

Apparently the end of the world is going to make us all work out more

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Of course, all our plastic crap ends up in the Arctic
Environment

Of course, all our plastic crap ends up in the Arctic

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Why it’s not partisan to march for science
Environment

Why it’s not partisan to march for science

By Jeremy Deaton

Antarctica is leaking from the inside out
Environment

Antarctica is leaking from the inside out

By Jeremy Deaton

clouds
Environment

Everything you need to know about geoengineering

By Sarah Fecht

A woman enjoys the natural light refracted by water in a bottle
Environment

How to turn used plastic bottles into skylights and street lamps

By Jeremy Deaton

As sea levels rise, where will all the people go?
Environment

As sea levels rise, where will all the people go?

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A river in Canada just turned to piracy because of global warming
Environment

A river in Canada just turned to piracy because of global warming

By Mary Beth Griggs