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Five temperature records dating back to 1880 show how Earth's global mean surface temperature has risen and keeps rising. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the past decade has been the warmest.

1 November 2021

Only a few degrees of global warming? So what.

As Earth’s temperature has fluctuated back and forth between ice ages, its ideal temperature range for human survival is just as narrow as the ideal…

Global warming

Five temperature records dating back to 1880 show how Earth's global mean surface temperature has risen and keeps rising. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the past decade has been the warmest.

1 November 2021

Only a few degrees of global warming? So what.

A delicate balance of ocean currents transport heat around the planet and drive global weather patterns. But greenhouse gas emissions are slowing a key Atlantic Ocean current to the brink of collapse, with catastrophic global weather implications.

8 August 2021

And now we’re changing ocean currents — threatening to disrupt and worsen global weather

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg continues her weekly "Fridays for Future" climate strike. She's been protesting for 130 weeks.

13 January 2021

Thunberg summarizes One Planet Summit: “Bla bla bla…”

Global scorching

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

8 May 2021

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

Members of the Texas National Guard help Houston residents from areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, which swamped the region with record rainfall exasperated by the climate emergency.

13 June 2020

Human-caused global heating attributable to half or more of Hurricane Harvey damages

The controversial climate documentary, "Planet of the Humans," with its not-so-subtle nod to "Planet of the Apes" pictured above (Charlton Heston as Taylor and Maurice Evans as Dr. Zeus) puts humanity -- and especially the environmental movement -- on trial.

3 May 2020

About that ‘Planet of the Humans’ controversy: Fact? Fiction? Both? Neither?

Alternative energy

Norway's Havyard Group ASA is filling 13 orders for zero-emission ferries received since 2016 (Photo: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg)

14 March 2018

Batteries a clean energy solution for shipping

For every one bird killed by a wind turbine, fossil fuel-powered plants kill 2,188 birds. (Photo: David Clarke)

8 March 2018

Wind farms least threat to birds

Marine life

Biodiversity -- and carbon -- abound in a kelp forest.

3 July 2020

How sea otters are good for the climate and other things

The orca Tahlequah grieved the death of her calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles.

19 June 2019

Time for a Puget Sound Bill of Rights

Enquiring minds examine hidden marine life during low tide at West Seattle's Constellation Park

31 August 2018

The hidden marine life along the shore — and threats to its survival

Pollution

New research confirms Dr. King's declaration that segregation is bad for our health.

4 April 2018

Pollution discriminates: worse in segregated areas, research shows

The River Tame, near Manchester, U.K., has the highest microplastic pollution yet discovered anywhere in the world.

12 March 2018

Microplastic pollution in ocean numbers beyond trillions

6 March 2018

How plastic pollution harms marine life

Good climate reads

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, by Michael E. Mann

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