As fires continue to rage across Northern California, Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano has been forced to divert time and attention away from protecting his community in order to stem the tide of what he calls the “misinformation” coming from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Evolution works very slowly—except when it doesn’t. New research shows that certain British birds appear to be changing quickly as result of bird feeders, evolving longer beaks to help them access the food inside.
After undergoing rapid intensification on Friday, Super Typhoon Lan has emerged as a force to reckoned with in the northwest Pacific.
A few years ago, if you had asked the general public where they would be getting their passionate, fact-driven journalism from in 2017, it’s unlikely the top answer would be The Weather Channel. But time and time again the responsibility of keeping the American people informed about the most pressing issues has fallen…
For the vast majority of Americans, cars are a way of life. Most people live in suburbs or cities that aren’t dense enough to have good public transit.
These are harrowing times, my friend. The world is on fire, the U.S. keeps inching closer to war with North Korea and Nazis are walking openly among us.
After finally breaking free of an epic drought, you’d think California would be feeling pretty good about itself. But 2017 is the year we can’t have nice things.
Congressional Republicans are one step closer to opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling, a goal that proponents of fossil fuel energy development in Alaska have been chasing for decades.
It’s been a month since a 7.1 magnitude earthquake ripped through central Mexico, killing more than 200 people and leaving thousands more homeless. In that time, the Mexican government promised funds and resources for the rebuilding process. But many people desperate to get their homes and businesses back following…
Roslyn, WA—After one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory in the Pacific Northwest this summer—with the unforgettable smoke-pocalypse that socked in the region with thick smoke for weeks—a new tool is being added fight against wildfires: goats.
It’s been nearly six months since the Environmental Protection Agency unceremoniously axed its climate change webpages under the auspices of updating the site to reflect the Trump administration’s priorities.
Installing wind turbines on the high seas is the holy grail for generating renewable energy. It’s there that powerful winds blow strong enough to potentially power the whole world without an iota of carbon pollution.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has issued its forecast for the 2017-18 winter season and, for the second year in a row, La Niña is poised to be a major factor in how the season shapes up. In general, the forecasters are predicting a cooler, wetter north, and a warmer, drier south.
The Book of Revelation, arguably humanity’s ultimate authority on the End Times, speaks of “flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and rolls of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm,” as God unleashed his wrath upon the Earth’s unruly children. But despite vividly-imagined plagues of locusts and seas of…
When one thinks about sea level rise, as one does in 2017, the tendency is to picture the oceans creeping steadily upward toward some catastrophic spillover. But that’s not really how it works. Sea level is rising in fits and starts, at different rates all over the world. Even on a global scale, some scientists think…
The world is a teeming, buzzing, biting web of life, everything dependent on everything else in some often unrecognizable way, and a new study documenting a vast decline in flying insects across Germany has scientists fretting over the broader implications.
There’s ongoing debate within the scientific community surrounding the geologic epoch in which we’re living. The period since the end of the last glaciation roughly 12,000 years ago is generally referred to as the Holocene. But some argue that humanity’s impacts on the planet, from climate change to mass extinction,…
It has been nearly a month since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. In that time, Donald Trump has done his best to display a complete lack of leadership, tweeting about the NFL instead of the island’s crisis, breezily dropping in to throw a few paper towels rolls around, and attacking the mayor of San Juan. And just…
Remember the U.S. Virgin Islands? Y’know, those little islands that sit in the Caribbean Sea not far at all from Puerto Rico? National attention has largely ignored these islands and their American citizens since Hurricanes Irma and Maria. So, we thought you might need a reminder that they’re still in crisis.
We’re still a few months from finally closing the books on a year wracked by natural disasters, but it seems safe to say 2017 will go down as the year of hellfire on Earth.
