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California's farms are sinking after the state's extreme drought
Though California's drought may be officially over, the water scarcity has left a mark on farms.According to a new NASA report, land in Central Valley — one of California’s most productive agricultural...
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The 25 most dangerously polluted cities in the US
More than 125 million Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's 2017 "State of the Air" report.Pollution leads to various kinds of...
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Here's what more than 41,000 people think about solar energy
By James Strapp, vice president of Global Solutions for the Energy and Utilities Industry, IBMAs we mark this year’s Earth Day, we see greater interest in the use of renewable energy sources.Decreasing...
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11 of the best nature documentaries on Netflix
The world celebrates Earth Day on April 22, marking the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. It's a good time to think about how we can protect our planet.Luckily, Netflix is packed with...
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10 gut-wrenching pleas from astronauts to save planet Earth
Floating hundreds of miles above Earth, astronauts have an unparalleled and beautiful view of the planet.But that view also lets them look down on the devastating effects of climate change, wildfires,...
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An artist created terrifying travel posters of national parks after they’ve...
There's something inherently eye catching about a vintage travel posters.During the 1940s, the Works Progress Administration — the New Deal agency that put Americans to work on infrastructure projects...
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20 images that show how much we've reshaped planet Earth in the past 70 years
April 22 is Earth Day, a world holiday celebrating our planet — the only home we've got (so far).Humans have had an unmistakable impact on Earth — one that pops out in sharp relief when you look at...
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5 sobering charts that show how many resources Americans use and waste
The United States is the third most populous nation on Earth, with about 319 million inhabitants. So it's no surprise the country uses a lot of resources — and makes an incredible amount of...
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Archaeologists have uncovered ancient bones that may rewrite American history
The first humans to set foot in the Americas arrived some 25,000 years ago — or so we thought.For decades, that date has been generally accepted by scientists, though recent genetic studies have moved...
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'You terrify me': TED speakers duke it out over a plan to release massive...
At TED, a conference about big ideas that's largely attended by tech luminaries, it was inevitable that geoengineering — the idea of changing the earth's atmosphere to halt or reverse climate change —...
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Scientists have solved the 100-year-old mystery of Antarctica's Blood Falls
A study has finally found the source of Antarctica's gruesome "Blood Falls."It's been 106 years since Australian geologist Griffith Taylor discovered the vivid red falls flowing from the glacier named...
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Republican lawmakers urge Trump stay in the Paris climate agreement, but...
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - A group of nine Republican lawmakers urged President Donald Trump to keep the United States in the 2015 Paris climate agreement but to reduce its pledge to cut...
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An 'unusually large' number of humpback whales died mysteriously near Maine —...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Government scientists launched an investigation Thursday into an unusually large number of humpback whale deaths from North Carolina to Maine, the first such "unusual mortality...
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16 facts that show why bottled water is one of the biggest scams of the century
There's nothing quite like the feeling of pure, ice-cold hydration. Some of us get our water for free from the tap. The rest pay for it — at the cost of roughly $100 billion a year.At that steep a...
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Bottled water is a scam for most Americans — but a new report reveals some...
Bottled water isn't cheap. At an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, we spend 300 times more on packaged H2O than we'd spend to drink it from the tap. In most cases, this expense is far from worth it,...
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At least 70 coal miners are trapped after an explosion in northern Iran
Tehran (AFP) - At least 70 coal miners were trapped after an explosion in northern Iran on Wednesday, Iranian media said.The mine in Golestan province collapsed when trapped methane gas exploded as...
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A huge crack in a 1,000-foot-thick Antarctic ice block has taken an alarming...
A crack in Larsen C, one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves, could shed a block of ice twice the size of Rhode Island.The crack recently split in two and forked northward.When the ice calves, more ice...
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The largest living thing on Earth is mostly hidden from view
The world's largest living thing is even bigger than a blue whale (which happens to be the largest animal living now).Meet Armillaria ostoyae, or, as it's nicknamed, the Humongous Fungus.It's an...
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A thermonuclear bomb slammed into a North Carolina farm in 1961 — and part of...
In 1961, a US nuclear bomber broke up over North Carolina farmland, killing three of eight crew members.The accident dropped two powerful hydrogen bombs over the area, but they did not detonate.The...
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The EPA just kicked half the scientists off a key board — and may replace...
The Environmental Protection Agency forced out half the members of a key scientific advisory board over the May 7 weekend — and their possible replacements include representatives of polluting...
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