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How to Save the Planet

NASA and NOAA: last decade was the hottest on record

The average temperatures for 2019 were almost one-degree celsius above the average for the 20th century.

17 Jan 2020

Environment and Natural Resource Security

2019 was the oceans' hottest year on record

From coral bleaching and rising sea levels to increased marine heatwaves and more powerful storms, climate change is destroying our ocean ecosystems - harming people just as much as the f...

16 Jan 2020

Climate Change

Victoria Falls dries drastically after worst drought in a century

Southern Africa's iconic landmark is under threat, as these pictures of the Victoria Falls show. It's the latest of the seven natural wonders of the world to be struggling as the planet w...

12 Dec 2019

Climate Change

Humans release 40 to 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes, according to a major study

This major study shows that humans emit 40 to 100x more carbon dioxide than volcanic eruptions every year.

03 Oct 2019

SDG 13: Climate Action

An island-sized iceberg just broke off from Antarctica. This is the surprising reason

This 1,636 square kilometer iceberg came off of Antarctica's west shelf, called the Amery ice shelf. It was not due to global warming, but rather as part of a natural cycle.

01 Oct 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

When future archaeologists study the earth, their main find will be plastic

Plastic accumulation in the sediment layer of the earth has increased exponentially following the end of World War II. Our fossil record is now marked by our "love of plastic".

11 Sep 2019

Arctic

Antarctica lost sea ice four times the size of France in three years

Antarctic sea ice has typically been safe from the effects of climate change felt elsewhere on Earth. But in the last three years that has changed.

05 Jul 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

The climate crisis is cooking mussels in their shells

An early June heat wave cooked the mussels of Northern California's Bodega Head in their shells, causing the largest die-off of the foundational species in the area in 15 years.

03 Jul 2019

Climate Change

America’s shift from coal to renewable energy has begun

In April 2019, the U.S. generated more electricity from renewable sources than from coal for the first time ever.

01 Jul 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Antarctica’s ice is melting 5 times faster than in the 90s

Almost 25 percent of the West Antarctic ice shelf is now thinning, and the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are losing ice at five times the rate they were in the early 1990s.

20 May 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Scientists create first ever map of ‘wood wide web’

Scientists have created the first ever map of the underground web of fungi and bacteria which connect trees and forests around the world.

17 May 2019

United States

Sunny side up: solar panel installation hits a record high in the U.S.

California still holds the vast majority of US solar installations, with almost half of all solar installations in the country.

15 May 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Melting glaciers could be causing 25 to 30% of sea level rise

Glaciers may be melting faster than scientists thought, causing 25 to 30% of global sea level rise.

11 Apr 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

CO2 levels are now at a 3 million-year high

There is likely more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any other time in the last three million years.

08 Apr 2019

Climate Change

Oceans absorb almost 1/3 of global CO2 emissions, but at what cost? 

Between 1994 and 2007, oceans absorbed 34 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, or 31% of what humans put into the atmosphere during that time.

19 Mar 2019