Picture this: you’re sipping your morning coffee in Sacramento when suddenly the news alerts start pinging on your phone. Another atmospheric river is barreling toward California. Roads are closing, evacuation warnings are issued, and you can’t help but wonder – didn’t this just happen a few months ago? You’re not imagining it. These so-called “rivers ...
By late afternoon, the desert sun turns the sidewalks into stovetops and the air into something you can almost feel pressing back. Arizona has always been hot, but the recent run of shattered records – more 110-degree days, stubbornly warm nights, and unprecedented peaks in electricity demand – signals a shift from familiar summer to ...
You know when someone asks you about Louisiana, flooding probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe you think about jazz music drifting through French Quarter streets, or steaming bowls of gumbo, or those massive oak trees draped in Spanish moss. But here’s the brutal truth: Louisiana is drowning, slowly but surely, and ...
The world’s oceans, covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, play a pivotal role in maintaining the planet’s climate and temperature. Marine biology, the study of organisms and ecosystems in the ocean and other saltwater environments, is crucial in understanding climate change. This article delves into how marine biology contributes to climate change research, ...
On July 4, 2025, a Texas Hill Country flash flood catastrophe happened to occur in the exact location of a summer camp that was located near the Guadalupe River. The tears of losing over more than 120 lives flashed out, especially the tears of families who lost their children, because the flood consumed a breathtaking ...
Elisa Morgera, a United Nations expert on human rights and climate change, has taken a bold stance against the fossil fuel industry’s misinformation tactics, proposing something radical: their political and economic power needs to be legally and structurally dismantled. As with other fossil fuel defenders of our planet, Morgera focuses on telling them the truth ...
New research confirms that the huge amounts of water stored behind dams have not only changed sea levels but also the planet’s axis of rotation. This shocking discovery shows how much humans have affected the Earth’s geophysical processes. A study in Geophysical Research Letters says that building dams over the past 200 years has caused ...
Geologists have been studying rocks, fossils, and ice cores for hundreds of years to learn about Earth’s past climate. A new study has reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes with an accuracy that has never been seen before. This study shows patterns that could change how we think about climate change. This research, ...
Pretty much every politician seems to be avoiding taking real action on climate change, because they think no one cares about net zero anymore. That’s not what the numbers tell us, though. While political figures are growing more skeptical of these policies, the British public is still largely supportive of climate action policies, even when ...
A deadly mix of weather systems caused chaos in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. Heavy rains of more than 300 mm (12 inches) in just a few hours turned the state’s Hill Country into a deadly waterway. The floods, which were made worse by leftover effects of Tropical Storm Barry and unstable weather, ...
