Google just signed a long-term deal with Working Trees to pull 270,000 tons of CO₂ out of the atmosphere. The twist? They’re not planting trees on…
Before Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on the Florida Panhandle, Florida Power & Light Company isn’t waiting. On October 8, 2026, the utility announced it has assembled…
For 35 days straight, Tokyo woke up to rain. From the final days of August through the last week of September 2026, the sky over central…
For decades, the Arctic melt season grew longer with near-clockwork reliability — earlier spring thaws, later autumn freezes, year after year. By 2010, the season had…
Duke Energy is mobilizing crews and equipment across the Carolinas ahead of rain and wind expected from the remnants of Hurricane Isaias. The utility reported that…
May is supposed to bring relief to Puerto Rico. The wet season arrives, the skies open up, and reservoirs begin to recover from the dry months…
NOAA now puts the odds of a very strong El Niño during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter of 2026–27 at greater than 90% — and…
Indian scientists engineered concrete that captures CO₂ — and it’s stronger than the original Concrete is everywhere — under roads, inside bridges, running through the pipes…
ExxonMobil’s 2026 Energy Outlook, released Thursday, projects global CO2 emissions will hit 33.1 billion U.S. tons by 2050 — nearly three times the level scientists say…
Artificial intelligence is widely hailed as tech’s ultimate frontier, yet it is rapidly emerging as one of the sector’s most formidable climate liabilities. Tech giant Google…
Antarctica has been losing ice for decades — roughly 140 billion tons a year, on average. So when satellites recorded a net gain of 695 billion…
Ancient coral and tree rings expose a 400-year ocean rhythm that human emissions are now dismantling For at least four centuries, the tropical Indian and Pacific…
Australia’s ghost lakes kept growing for two years straight — then a satellite caught it A Landsat 8 satellite image from October 30, 2024 shows something…
When Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted beneath the South Pacific in January 2022, it was a historic event. The underwater blast sent ash, steam, and gas high…
Antarctica gained 700 billion tons of ice — and a distant tropical ocean drove it For two decades, Antarctica has been losing ice at a rate…
Grand Canyon National Park is navigating an unprecedented infrastructure crisis deep within its inner gorges. As millions of annual visitors arrive at the South Rim, an…
Marie stumbles slightly as she records video on her smartphone, catching her footing on loose stone before redirecting the lens toward a lush canopy. Around her,…
Sometime around July 21, 2026, boaters on Williston Reservoir in British Columbia came across something that had no business being there: a landmass roughly the size…
A study published in Health Physics by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory finds that widely used emergency response models have significantly underestimated how much hazardous dust…
Oceans are growing far more algae than before — and a sweeping new study reveals the full scale of a transformation reshaping marine ecosystems Stretches of…
Pulling billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere is one of the hardest things humanity has ever attempted. The technologies built for it —…
High on the Washington side of the Columbia River, near the John Day hydroelectric dam, members of the Yakama Nation gathered on windswept ground their ancestors…
Friends of the Verde River and Salt River Project have opened applications for the third year of the River Friendly Living Grants Program, backed by $52,000…
The UK North Sea is declining—that much isn’t in dispute. But a new white paper from energy consultancy Gneiss Energy argues that the pace of that…
Before dawn on January 23, 1973, the island of Heimaey shook awake. A mile-long fissure had split open just half a mile from town, shooting fountains…
On August 4, 2026, advanced satellite radar orbiting Earth recorded a quiet shift high above the frozen coastline of northwest Greenland. A massive section of shelf…
The strongest El Niño pattern in recorded history is bearing down on the American West. Yet the Colorado River—the primary water supply for 40 million people…
Washoe County just got federal approval to build a stormwater management facility on about 13 acres of public land north of the Heppner Subdivision in Lemmon…
Beneath the glaciers and snowfields of High Mountain Asia, an invisible crisis is deepening. The region — known as the “Asian Water Tower” — feeds rivers…
Petrobras has contracted Halliburton to drill four onshore wells at the Barra do Furado Station in Quissamã, Rio de Janeiro—a milestone that marks Latin America’s first…
Federal climate officials have confirmed that July 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded across the contiguous United States. NOAA issued the designation, marking a new…
Somewhere across rural China, uniformed personnel aim military rocket launchers into the atmosphere. Their target is not an invading military force but passing cloud cover. The…
Every hurricane season, forecasters run into the same problem: warm water hiding beneath the ocean’s surface, invisible to satellites and beyond the reach of most monitoring…
In the summer of 2022, the McKinney Fire tore through the hills above the Klamath River in Northern California — one of the West’s most storied…
At the shifting boundary where open ocean meets frozen Arctic sea ice near Greenland, atmospheric sensors recently recorded a startling anomaly. Aboard the Royal Research Ship…
Standing at the rim of Lake Powell, there’s nothing to signal the danger. No gauge on the canyon wall, no alarm, no visible sign that one…
Decades of drought and overuse pushed the Colorado River toward a breaking point, and Washington is now forcing seven states to confront who gets less water.…
With August marking Florida’s historically hottest month—and recent summers running 10% to 15% above long-term averages—Duke Energy Florida is stepping up with guidance for the more…
Uniper has named SLB Capturi as the preferred carbon capture technology licensor for its proposed Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power project in Deeside, United Kingdom. The…
When oil spills across the ocean surface, the slick seems to stretch beyond any natural remedy. Yet long before cleanup crews arrive, something microscopic is already…
A Cornell University study published July 13 in Earth’s Future warns that Colorado’s six West Slope river basins—which supply roughly 70% of Lake Powell’s water—could see…
Marine conservation has long forced coastal towns into a tough spot. Give up your fishing grounds today. Then, wait decades for the ocean to heal. For…
Hundreds of meters below the Pacific’s surface, in a dimly lit stretch of ocean most people have never heard of, the water can turn as murky…
Semona Holmes has fruit trees in her yard, potted flowers on her porch, and a fish pond out back. She also has floodwater — rising to…
For years, two wild dirt loops in Utah have drawn adventurous riders from all across the country. The Cedar Mesa Loop and the Grand Staircase Loop…
The UK government has approved development funding for the Viking CCS carbon capture and storage project in the Humber region, one of the country’s most heavily…
During California’s 2020 wildfire season, more than 10,000 distribution poles were destroyed and over 3 million customers lost power. Some of those outages weren’t caused by…
A NOAA-funded coalition has pulled more than 18,168 pounds of marine debris from the shores of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Anacapa Islands—part of California’s Channel…
In the Miera River basin in northern Spain, a small team of researchers is wading into clear mountain streams. They are sending brief pulses of electricity…
Superstorm Sandy. The devastating 2025 Texas floods. Massive weather events like these force us to face an uncomfortable sci-fi question. What if we could see a…
