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October 12, 2017

A massive hole just opened up in Antarctica's ice and scientists can't explain it

Thanks to its usefulness as an indicator of how badly humans are messing up the Earth with global warming, scientists like to keep a pretty close eye on the ice in Antarctica.

October 5, 2017

Thanks to global warming, airplane turbulence is on the rise

Nervous fliers may have more bumpy rides to worry about in the years to come. A new study published in the journal, Geophysical Research Letters, found climate change could cause up to three times as much clear-air turbulence (CAT) between 2050 and 2080.

September 28, 2017

Iceberg 4.5 times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctic glacier

Breaking news from Pine Island Glacier, which lost 267km2 of icebergs today, after the internal crack resulted in a large calving event 1/n pic.twitter.com/sLwGTyNTfC

September 27, 2017

Stephen Hawking: Earth could turn into hothouse planet like Venus

Earth could turn into a hothouse planet like Venus, with boiling oceans and acid rain, if humans don't curb irreversible climate change, physicist Stephen Hawking claimed in a recent interview.

September 27, 2017

Massive iceberg breaks away from Antarctica, scientists say

A giant "Delaware-size" iceberg that scientists have been monitoring for more than two years has broken off from Antarctica, becoming one of the largest icebergs on record.

September 27, 2017

PHOTO: NASA shows dramatic picture of massive new Antarctic iceberg

Multiple NASA satellites have captured images of the dramatic and long-awaited birth of one of the largest icebergs ever recorded , which broke off an Antarctic ice shelf this week.

September 27, 2017

Solar Eclipse day craziness could resemble the zombie apocalypse — Are you ready?

One month from today, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21 will make its way across the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina.

September 27, 2017

The plastic we've made weighs as much as 1 billion elephants

A new study puts a number on the amount of plastic the planet has manufactured in the roughly 65 years we've been cranking it out: 9 billion tons.

September 26, 2017

Climate policy -- get ready for the next round of hype

As far as the science goes, there is little in the U.S. Global Change Research Program report to advance the case of any side in the debate over climate policy. That makes the publication of the report more a hook for stories that one side or another wants to tell than an actual item of news in itself.

September 20, 2017

Climate models questioned: Global warming may be slower than previously thought

The computers were wrong. There’s still hope for Planet Earth.