Today: October 05, 2024
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Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay

Beluga whales are called the canaries of the sea because scientists say they are some of the most vocal creatures on Earth

Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay
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Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it

Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it

Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it

Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
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Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it

Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
Environment|News|World

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves

At the United Nations, the troika of the current and next two presidents of U.N. climate conferences are telling other leaders to make their required climate-fighting targets much more ambitious

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves
Environment|News|World

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves

At the United Nations, the troika of the current and next two presidents of U.N. climate conferences are telling other leaders to make their required climate-fighting targets much more ambitious

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves
Environment|News|World

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves

At the United Nations, the troika of the current and next two presidents of U.N. climate conferences are telling other leaders to make their required climate-fighting targets much more ambitious

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren't cutting back themselves
Environment

The world is pumping out 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year

A new study finds that every year people create 57 million tons of plastic pollution

The world is pumping out 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year
Environment|Health

Here's what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar

Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high

Here's what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar
Environment|Health

Here's what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar

Despite a record 46-day streak of triple digit feels-like temperatures, Miami’s unprecented brutal summer last year wasn’t that deadly, contrasting with the rest of the nation where federal records show heat fatalities nationally spiked to a 45-year high

Here's what seems to work in Miami to keep deaths down as temperatures soar
Environment|Political

John Kerry reflects on time as top US climate negotiator and 'major breakthrough' in climate talks

John Kerry feels he’s going out on a high note as he retires from leading U.S. efforts in international negotiations to confront ever-worsening climate change

John Kerry reflects on time as top US climate negotiator and 'major breakthrough' in climate talks
Environment|Europe|Sports

Olympics bet against climate change with Seine swimming. For days, it looked like they would lose

The Paris Olympics bet against climate change when they scheduled some outdoor swimming events in the Seine River, and for a while it looked like they would lose

Olympics bet against climate change with Seine swimming. For days, it looked like they would lose
Environment|Travel

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives
Environment|Europe|Science

Hottest summer on record could lead to the warmest year ever measured

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record

Hottest summer on record could lead to the warmest year ever measured
Education|Environment|Lifestyle|Science

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone

Fireflies once seemed plentiful and cool, easy to catch and watch, and they served as an introduction to the world of nature around us

The flickering glow of summer's fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone
Environment|Science

June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won't

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June

June sizzles to 13th straight monthly heat record. String may end soon, but dangerous heat won't
Environment|Science

Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s

A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating

Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980s
Health|Science

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.

When dangerous heat waves strike, what happens inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees

How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
Environment|Science

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely

A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely
Environment|Science

Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus

With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough

Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
Environment|Science

Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease

The periodical cicadas that have blanketed parts of the American Midwest this spring are strange creatures, but they have nothing on some of their superfans

Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease
Environment|Science

Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs

Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying in the American Midwest

Illinois is hit with cicada chaos. This is what it's like to see, hear and feel billions of bugs
Environment|Science

New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating

Top scientists calculate that the rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans

New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
Environment|Science

Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heat

Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history

Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of 'crazy' ocean heat

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