Hothouse Earth? Welcome to Hot-tub Earth as ocean temps continue to soar
Record-setting ocean temperatures have fueled yet another global coral bleaching catastrophe and portend an unprecedented hurricane season.
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Climate emergency cancels World Pond Hockey Championship, impacts other seasonal Canadian events
Warm winter temperatures led to pond ice too thin to safely hold the annual international games, and wildfire forecasts are leading to the cancellation and rescheduling of summer events.
One scientist’s life on a boat tracking how the climate and ocean are linked
Our seas are doing us an enormous favour by removing additional carbon from the atmosphere, but we don’t understand all the details of this process at the surface, or how this may change in the future.
Natural methane emissions are accelerating and at levels not seen in paleoclimate records
Methane is exponentially more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat, and its accelerated accumulation in the atmosphere could trigger unimaginable global heating within a few decades.
New research linking climate emergency to polar bear demise could benefit salmon and other endangered species
A George W. Bush-era policy prevented federal agencies from considering the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on endangered polar bears, but new peer-reviewed research illustrates a direct link.
Unrelenting wildfires, torrential rainfall bring new meaning to “unprecedented” extreme weather events
Week after week we’re alerted to some “unprecedented” extreme weather event. Yet the corporate media references the climate emergency barely at all.
How settler colonialism, oligarchy, and the climate emergency fueled catastrophic Maui fires
Seventh-generation native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing explains why there is nothing natural about the devastating Maui wildfires.
Daniel Ellsberg’s role in exposing oil industry lies and disinformation
In 2014, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower rallied journalists to expose what the oil companies knew about harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
World’s ocean surface temperature hits record high: “Headed off the charts”
The temperature of the world’s ocean surface has hit an all-time high since satellite records began, threatening corals and other marine life.
Here comes more rain, more drought, just as climate models predicted
The rise in extreme weather predicted by climate models as global temperatures continue to rise is confirmed by satellite data. The last 8 years have…