Environment The Extinction Crisis Keeps Getting More Dire, With 28,000 Species At-RiskGizmodo - Yessenia Funes The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) updated its Red List of Threatened Species last week—and habitat loss, hunting, and climate …
Glaciers Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland's First Glacier Lost to Climate ChangeGizmodo - Brian Kahn That may sound like an Onion headline, but alas, it is not. We’ve reached the point in our wild planetary experiment where humans are memorializing …
Environment This Week's Brutal U.S. Heat Wave Could Be a KillerGizmodo - Yessenia Funes The sweltering heat outside is not only annoying as hell; it’s downright dangerous. There’s no better time to sit inside with the air conditioner …
North Dakota North Dakota Wants the $38M It Set on Fire Policing the Pipeline Protests Backsplinternews.com - Nick Martin On Thursday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem sued the United States government for $38 million in funds to recoup the taxpayer money …
Environment The Northernmost Settlement on Earth Cracked 70 Degrees For the First Time This WeekGizmodo - Brian Kahn It’s not just the eastern part of the U.S. roasting this week. Much of the planet is on a heat bender, including the northernmost inhabited place on …
Jair Bolsonaro In First Half of July, the Amazon Lost Nearly 400 Square Miles of ForestGizmodo - Yessenia Funes The Brazilian Amazon Rainforest is experiencing serious devastation under the country’s new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. The month of July …
Environment Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic On FireGizmodo - Brian Kahn Vast stretches of Earth’s northern latitudes are on fire right now. Hot weather has engulfed a huge portion of the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland …
Mauna Kea Hundreds of Astronomers Denounce Arrest of Native Hawaiians Protesting Thirty Meter TelescopeGizmodo - Yessenia Funes All week, opponents to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) have been putting their bodies on the line to prevent construction from starting on top of …
Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Trees Are Being Wiped Out by Climate ChangeGizmodo - Yessenia Funes Climate change is set to kill off most of our nation’s Joshua trees by the end of the century, according to a recent study. While some Joshua trees …
Environment Scientists Propose Pumping 74 Trillion Tons of Artificial Snow Onto to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to Stop Its CollapseGizmodo - Brian Kahn We’ve reached the “what if we just make it snow a lot to save Antarctic’s ice sheets” phase of our time on Earth. Good job, everyone. What sounds like …
Environment The U.S. Is Set to Roast This Week Under a Potentially Record-Setting Heat WaveGizmodo - Brian Kahn The only thing worse than the hottest time of summer is a heat wave on top of the hottest time of summer. And lo and behold, that’s exactly what the …
Environment Hundreds of Protestors Block Work Crews Ahead of Thirty Meter Telescope Construction in HawaiiGizmodo - Yessenia Funes Construction preparation for what is supposed to be one of the world’s biggest and most powerful telescopes was set to begin Monday in Hawaii, but …
Geek Another Thing Killing Coral Reefs: Our PoopGizmodo - Yessenia Funes It’s no secret that corals are dying at an alarming rate. While climate change heating up the oceans is understood to be screwing over corals, a new …
Environment World Hunger Is On the Rise and ‘Climate Shocks’ Are Partly to Blame, UN SaysGizmodo - Brian Kahn A staggering 2 billion people around the world don’t have enough nutritious food to eat, and climate shocks like drought, heat waves, and extreme …
Elephants How Elephants May Help Africa’s Rainforests Fight Climate ChangeGizmodo - Maddie Stone Although we’re wiping them out with little consideration of it, big herbivores matter. Hippo poop helps Africa’s largest lake flourish; bison …
Monsanto Judge Slashes Payout in Roundup Lawsuit, But Calls Monsanto's Conduct 'Reprehensible'Gizmodo - Tom McKay A federal judge in one of the lawsuits between pharmaceutical giant AG Bayer, which bought agrochemical giant Monsanto in 2018, and plaintiffs who …
Marshall Islands Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly HighGizmodo - George Dvorsky An analysis of soil samples, ocean sediment, and fruits from the Marshall Islands—the site of nearly 70 nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and …
Environment Now-Tropical Depression Barry Mostly Spares New Orleans, But Flood Risk Remains HighGizmodo - Tom McKay Tropical Depression Barry has been downgraded to its current status after smashing into Louisiana as the first hurricane of the season on Saturday, …
Environment Paradise, California, Has Lost More Than 90 Percent of Its Residents Since Last Year's Deadly FireGizmodo - Yessenia Funes The Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise, California, last year. Since then, the community has struggled to rebuild. In fact, more than 90 …
Birdwatching A Blackbird Blowing 'Smoke' Rings Wins Top Prize at the 2019 Audubon Photography AwardsGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Like humans, birds breathe. And on a cold day, the moisture from their breath condenses into steam that emanates from their beaks. Photographer …
Geek Your Binge-Watching of Netflix and Porn Is Contributing to Millions of Tons of Emissions a YearGizmodo - Yessenia Funes Most days when I get home from work, I kick off my shoes and cozy up with some Netflix. Video streaming is kind of my go-to when I want to relax—and …
Greenland Greenland Was on Fire This Week Amid 'Unprecedented' Arctic BurnGizmodo - Brian Kahn Two years ago, Greenland lit ablaze. It was weird, and a harbinger of things to come on our changing planet. It just didn’t seem like they would come …
Environment West Coast Residents Seriously Underestimate the Threat of a Catastrophic Earthquake, Survey FindsGizmodo - Maddie Stone As last week’s major earthquakes in Southern California reminded us, we humans are still at the mercy of the geologically-active planet we live on. …
Geek Newly-Discovered 'Vibranium' Fish Named in Honor of WakandaGizmodo - David Shiffman While SCUBA diving off the coast of Zanzibar, marine biologist Luiz Rocha saw a fish he had never seen before. He sent a photograph to his …
Environment The Science Behind Tropical Storm Barry's Potentially Catastrophic FloodingGizmodo - Brian Kahn If there is one thing you need to know about Tropical Storm Barry, it is this: The storm bearing down on Louisiana is forecast to be a flooding …
Norwegian Sea A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation at Levels 800,000 Times NormalGizmodo - George Dvorsky Using a robotic sub, a team of investigators has detected traces of radiation leaking from Komsomolets—a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank 30 years …
Mauna Kea Controversial Telescope Starts Construction on Sacred Hawaiian Mountain Next WeekGizmodo - Yessenia Funes The controversial Thirty Meter Telescope is set break ground on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea on the week of July 15, after about a decade of delays due to …
Geek Why We’re Challenging the 2020 Democrats to a Climate SummitGizmodo - Brian Kahn and Emily Atkin It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: The first round of Democratic presidential debates failed the planet. In a combined 240 minutes of …
Environment We Asked Every Member of the House Climate Crisis Committee if They’d Support AOC’s Climate Emergency ResolutionGizmodo - Brian Kahn On Tuesday, Representative Early Blumenauer introduced a resolution in the House calling for a climate emergency. The legislation itself is symbolic …
