The US Navy has been conducting war-game exercises in US waters for decades, and in the process, it has left behind tons of bombs, heavy…

Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but everybody does it. As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve…

Predicting the future is a fool’s errand, but everybody does it. As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve…

Last month, geographer Richard Heede received a subpoena from Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.…

Last December, officials representing more than 190 countries met in Paris to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The historic outcome from that…

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Are we going to let capitalism destroy life on Earth? According to 99 percent of climate scientists – we'll know by the end of the…

We are all patriotic.  Let’s start with the Star Spangled Banner. You all are familiar with some of it, but perhaps some of you may…

The so-called hiatus in global warming will probably make no difference to the world in the long run, according to Australian scientists. Using computer models…

It's not just your imagination. The punishing heat waves, record snowfall, and 500-year floods, which seem to be occurring with increasing frequency, are doing just…