EartherExtreme Weather China Is Using Rockets to Control the Weather The country launched silver iodide-filled rockets in an attempt to clear pollution for a Communist Party celebration. By Mack DeGeurin Published December 8, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Elon Musk Calls for End to Government Subsidies Now That They’ve Made Him Rich "I’m literally saying get rid of all subsidies," the tech CEO said at an event this week. By Brian Kahn Published December 7, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather Stunning Timelapse Captures Hawaii’s Newly Snow-Covered Peaks Mauna Kea was a scene of quiet snow and starry skies, but other parts of the island chain are still grappling with heavy rain and flooding from a strong storm. By Mack DeGeurin Published December 7, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change The Problem With Earth’s Striking New ‘Black Box’ It’s for a good cause, but the project in Tasmania barely registers as provocative social commentary—and it won’t offer much in terms of practical value. By George Dvorsky Published December 7, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherEnergy Joe Biden Is Making Donald Trump Look Like an Environmentalist The Biden administration has approved more fossil fuel drilling permits than the average amount approved every year of Trump’s presidency except 2020. By Mack DeGeurin Published December 7, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherConservation Sharks ‘Amassing’ on the East Coast Is Totally Normal, Uprising Not Imminent Online shark trackers are making the coastline look swarmed by the fish. But all is totally well. By Isaac Schultz Published December 6, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherGarbage Striking NASA Animation Reveals the Dirty Truth About Ocean Plastic A new technique for measuring ocean plastic provides one of the most granular views of pollution yet. By Molly Taft Published December 6, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherNatural Disasters 9 Photos of Indonesia’s Apocalyptic Volcanic Eruption At least 15 are dead and hundreds displaced following the Mount Semeru eruption in East Java. By Molly Taft Published December 6, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherNatural Disasters Thousands of Honeybees Stared Down Spain’s Cumbre Vieja Volcano. They Won Five hives survived about 50 days covered in volcanic ash. To stay alive, they sealed their hives with bee glue and ate their honey stores. By Jody Serrano Published December 5, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherConservation Huge Jellyfish Is Extremely Rare, Nightmare Fuel Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists captured stunning footage of the giant phantom jelly, one of the ocean's most elusive creatures. By Brian Kahn Published December 3, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherConservation MrBeast Misses the Point Team Seas is the mega-popular YouTuber's new humanitarian ocean cleanup stunt. It has serious problems. By Published December 3, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change There’s a New Front in the War on Christmas Up to 70% of noble fir seedlings died off this summer in Oregon, meaning the ghost of climate change present will further ruin the future. By Brian Kahn Published December 1, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherEnergy The PR Firms Doing Big Oil’s Dirty Work A new study documents the decades-long relationship between some of the world's biggest PR firms and Big Oil. By Molly Taft Published December 1, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun Climate models are usually run on supercomputers. But Amazon has donated cloud computing time to run a model—with a twist. By Brian Kahn Published December 1, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherConservation Online Shopping Is Turning the High Seas Into a Super-Polluting Highway Maritime shipping for Amazon, Walmart, Target, and IKEA accounted for some 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions between 2018 and 2020. By Mack DeGeurin Published November 30, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather This Map Shows the Pacific Northwest’s Nightmare November Rain Totals Record rains have led to floods and mudslides across Washington and British Columbia. A new map puts it all in perspective. By Brian Kahn Published November 30, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change So You Want to Donate to a Climate Group… It's not just the Sierra Club or Natural Resources Defense Council that need your cash. By Molly Taft Published November 30, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change People Are Giving Money to the Wrong Climate Charities A new report details the biggest winners—and losers—in what climate and environmental charities get money in the U.S. By Molly Taft Published November 30, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather Wonderwall of Snow Traps 60 People in Pub With Oasis Cover Band for 3 Days A massive snowstorm kept pubgoers trapped at the Tan Hill Inn for an unexpected long weekend with an Oasis cover band. By Brian Kahn Published November 29, 2021 | Comments (0)
EartherEnergy What the Omicron Variant Could Mean for Oil Prices Global oil prices fell Friday in the biggest one-day drop since last April. By Molly Taft Published November 29, 2021 | Comments (0)
