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It’s time to watch the beluga cam
They sound like cosmic radio transmissions, sent from another solar system, or galaxy.But no, these…
Bernie Sanders has a colossal climate plan
Bernie Sanders' climate plan, one of the biggest of the already big climate plans, dropped Thursday.
The strategy…
Smoky Anchorage has the worst air quality in the U.S.
Anchorage's smoky summer won't relent. As of Tuesday morning, the most populated city in Alaska had the worst air…
The Trump administration can’t gut the Endangered Species Act
In 1973, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Endangered Species Act by a stark vote of 355 to 4.
Forty-six…
Gillian Anderson pens powerful op-ed urging governments to protect oceans
Gillian Anderson has written an impassioned op-ed for the Guardian urging governments to set aside "geopolitical…
July was the *hottest month* ever recorded
July 2019, marked by persistent, historic heat waves, was the warmest month ever observed in 140 years of…
Sad remains of Iceland’s first dead glacier seen in satellite images
Oddur Sigurðsson, a geologist in the Icelandic Meteorological Office, declared the largely vanished…
Century-old ship logs reveal extent of today’s drastic Arctic melt
A 19th-century polar explorer depicted the harrows of traversing the Arctic, "for its course is tracked with…
7 critical conclusions from the major U.N. climate land report
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the country's chief of the National Institute of Space Research in early…
Seafaring robot crashes into iceberg, still finishes scientific trip around…
13,670 nautical miles. 50-foot waves. One big collision.
Over the weekend a Saildrone — a 23-foot long…