The Uninhabitable Earth | David Wallace-Wells

Fossils by Heartless Machine. In the jungles of Costa Rica, where humidity routinely tops 90 percent, simply moving around outside when it’s over 105 degrees Fahrenheit would be lethal. And the effec ...

Trillion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica (Update) | AFP

Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf. Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf a ...

Increasing likelihood of extreme sea levels | Thomas Wahl

A family is evacuated during the great storm of 1953. Credit: Canterbury City Council July 7, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of Southampton are warning that future coastal impact stu ...

July 2017 Stormwatch: Climate Change | John Michael Greer

Don your waterproof boots; we’re going to visit a planetwide flood zone.July 5, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Many years ago, not long after I first got onto the internet, I created a website to try to enc ...

Collapse of the European ice sheet caused chaos | Quaternary Science Reviews

The sea level rise and the colossal amounts of meltwater discharged from the collapsing ice sheet meant that areas that previously were land eventually became seabed. Britain and Ireland, which had b ...

Meltwater lakes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet accelerated glacial retreat in the Earth's past | Alfred Wegener Institute

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia, Public Domain June 1, 2017 (Phys.org) -- During the last glacial period -- when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offsh ...

‘The Power to Create a New World’: Trump and the Environmental Challenge Ahead | Zarefah Baroud

Zarefah Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2017 Catastrophic climate change is no longer a subject for argument, at least on a mainstream level within the science community. Yet, as temperatures con ...

New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos

Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ter ...

Dystopian Donald: Will Trump Make 1984 Look Like a Nursery Tale? | Tom Engelhardt

It might just be impossible to overstate how much damage this administration can do. (Photo detail: Jim Bourg/Reuters, Paneikon) Dec. 22, 2016 (Tom Dispatch) -- Can you doubt that we’re in a dystopia ...

Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet | Jason Hickel

Cracked soil by a village in Iran abandoned by farmers because water reserves ran dry due to overuse. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our ba ...

The Myth of the Anthropocene | John Michael Greer

"Welcome to the Anthropocene" YouTube Oct. 5, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- To explore the messy future that modern industrial society is making for itself, it’s necessary now and again to stray into so ...