NOAA Issues An El Nino Watch, Says There's A 50% Chance For Development Later...
On Wednesday, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño watch, with a roughly 50% chance of development in the summer or fall of this year. El Niño, also called the southern oscillation, is a...
View ArticleSan Francisco Wants To Ban Plastic Water Bottles
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco moved to restrict the sale of plastic water bottles on city property on Tuesday, the first such action by a major U.S. municipality and the latest in a string of...
View ArticleLake Erie Is Turning To Slime [PHOTOS]
Lake Erie is being invaded by algae that is turning its waters bright green, killing off communities of fish, and seriously injuring the tourism industry.The algae's extensive blooming in recent years...
View ArticleA College Student Has Figured Out How To Grow Food Using Your Old Fish Tank
What started out as a mishmosh of Tupperware containers, cardboard, and Duct tape is now a functioning system of pipes, drains, and plastic that turns a standard fish tank into a self-cleaning aquarium...
View Article75,000 Killer Bees Attack A Woman, Stung 1,000 Times
A 71-year-old woman is expected to survive after being attacked by 75,000 African killer bees while visiting Palm Desert, Calif., on Thursday, according to ABC News.The woman was in critical condition...
View ArticleAn Unconventional Desalination Technology Could Solve California's Water...
This year, farmers in California's Central Valley likely won't receive any water through the federal irrigation program, a network of reservoirs, rivers, and canals that is normally replenished yearly...
View ArticleAn Alarming Wake-Up Call From A Brand New Report On Climate Change
The evidence linking human activities to climate change is as strong as the data supporting the idea that smoking causes lung cancer, a new report from the American Association for the Advancement of...
View ArticleLEAKED: Climate Report Predicts Shrinking GDP, Food Shortages, And A Rise In...
Mass migration. Regional conflict. Dire food shortages. A shrinking global GDP.While not scheduled to be released until March 29 — one day after Darren Aronfsky's apolalyptic Bible epic, Noah, hits...
View ArticleThis GIF Of The Earth From Space Shows Exactly What's Happening At The Spring...
Today, March 20, is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere marked by the vernal equinox. The equinox is cool because it's a time of year when the night and day are almost equal. This...
View ArticleBuy This Incredible Transforming 'Micro Apartment' In New York City For $1...
Graham Hill, founder of minimalist design firm LifeEdited, made headlines last year when he transformed a tiny, 420-square-foot apartment in Manhattan's trendy SoHo neighborhood into a livable — and...
View ArticleThe Best Weather People To Follow On Twitter
Today, March 23, is World Meteorological Day.To celebrate the occasion, we've rounded up a fun group of weather experts and climate reporters who are active on social media and helping to make normally...
View ArticleBRACE YOURSELVES: A Major Spring Storm Could Slam The East Coast This Week
A powerful storm system could either slam New England with heavy snow on Tuesday night or turn out to be no big deal, based on an alert from the National Weather Service on Monday.The amount of...
View ArticleThe US Capitol Just Honored Norman Borlaug, The Man Who Saved A Billion Lives
A statue was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday of plant scientist Norman Borlaug, the man widely considered the father of the Green Revolution and whose work helped save as many as 1 billion...
View ArticleThe Scientific Debate On Global Warming In One Chart
The next time someone tries to tell you that there's a legitimate scientific debate about man-made global warming, point them to this chart.It was created by James Powell, an MIT-trained geochemist,...
View ArticleThis Edible Blob Could Be The Water Bottle Of The Future
Move over, plastic water bottles. There's a new way to carry around your water (kind of). Ooho is an biodegradable and edible membrane made of brown algae that holds water, according to PSFK. The...
View ArticleThe Worst Way To Eliminate A Cockroach
BI Answers: What's the worst way to kill a cockroach?Cockroaches are notoriously difficult to eliminate. These suckers can keep chugging for up to a week without their head, thrive for a month without...
View ArticleFormer Archbishop Of Canterbury Warns Of Climate Change — Says Western...
Former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of his fears for the global climate, saying the winter flooding was a portent of what is to come.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he blamed...
View ArticleMajor UN Report: The World Is Completely Unprepared For The Effects Of...
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the second of its three-part report on climate change at a conference in Yokohama, Japan, on Monday morning local time.Here's a link to the...
View ArticleAnyone Who Eats Food Needs To See These Three Charts From A Massive Report On...
For several decades, yields of the world's major food crops have increased. But the rate of increase has slowed over the past few years as a result of climate change, a massive new report from the...
View ArticleNew Study Suggests Earth's Worst Mass Extinction Was Caused By Microbes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sometimes bad things come in small packages.A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that...
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