Climate, Energy & Conservation
How to Think About the Future (Part 3)
A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boundaries, all while seeing incomes rise for 98% of the global ...
Claims that RGGI is a successful emission reduction program are inconsistent with the following observations. The amount raised falls far short of the funds necessary to reduce RGGI emissions in acco...
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, some communities are limiting one of the nation's most iconic traditions. Here's where fireworks are banned or restricted this Fourth of July and why.
Dinosaurs like tyrannosaurs and velociraptors famously walked on two legs. But they weren’t the only bipedal prehistoric creatures to exist. In a study published in June, paleontologists shared the di...
Every once in awhile, a letter like this makes what I do all worth it - AnthonyThe postLetter to the Editor: Enough of ‘climate doom’appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
As millions of people brace for unbearably hot summer temperatures this week, the Northeast is expected to experience some of the worst conditions leading up to the holiday weekend.
A group of geladas monkeys (Theropithecus gelada), pictured above, huddle to keep warm on a cold day in the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. Endemic to Ethiopia’s cold Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine...
The Florida Python Challenge begins July 10 and gives participants the opportunity to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades while raising awareness about the threat posed by the non-nati...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Natural gas could start flowing by 2033 out of two undersea deposits discovered by ExxonMobil off Cyprus, a senior executive with the company said Tuesday, helping to turn the e...
A dismissed pasture weed may be key to easing drug addictions, but a researcher is keeping it a closely guarded secret for now.
Agents from the Brazilian Federal Police found an unusual cargo with four Czech nationals stopped in February at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport: 214 cactus specimens and envelopes contain...
As millions of Americans feel the heat ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States, this great nation has experienced a wide variety of weather on many historic days.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook parts of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, marking the latest earthquake to happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire on Tuesday afternoon.
The month of July will be filled with celestial wonders, but it's the moon's close encounters with planets that will steal the show. Almost every week brings a new spectacle in the night sky.
A man died, and a woman was injured when a natural arch rockway collapsed onto a jetski where the pair was sitting in Malta.
Cities across much of the central and eastern part of the country are activating emergency plans and altering America 250 celebrations as record-breaking high temperatures build across the nation thro...
A driver was safely brought to shore with minor injuries after crashing into a Fairfax County pond and becoming trapped inside the rapidly sinking vehicle over the weekend.
A low-pressure system – technically called a frontal wave – has formed on schedule along the cold front that stalled offshore of the Carolinas.
A hammerhead shark was spotted off the coast of Long Island by a drone photographer Monday, just as scorching temperatures and the upcoming Fourth of July holiday are expected to pack the beaches.