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6 Scary Takeaways From The UN's Huge Climate Report

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just put out a new and scary release on Sunday night, which detailed the impacts climate change has had and will continue to have on the...

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Almost A Quarter Of Europe's Vital Bumblebees Now Face Extinction

OSLO (Reuters) - Almost a quarter of Europe's bumblebees are at risk of extinction due to loss of habitats and climate change, threatening pollination of crops worth billions of dollars, a study showed...

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An Experimental App Lets Users See What Their Town Would Look Like Under Water

A prototype app called Looking Glass brings the issue of climate change home, allowing smartphone users to see projected sea-level rise in their own town.The app is not yet ready for the public and...

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Here's Why Hillary Clinton Is 'Deeply Worried' About The UN's Damning Climate...

Yesterday, at the launch event for the U.S. Global Development Lab, the conversation was mostly optimistic. The goal of the lab is create a center for science and innovation focused on what the...

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What Drunk Rodents Can Tell Us About Human Relationships

It seems alcohol makes the heart grow fonder, if you're a female prairie vole. Researchers have found for the time that alcohol effects the brain systems involved in social bonding differently for...

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The Most Amazing NASA Satellite Image Of Earth

We have a winner, folks! A view of the Canary Islands took first place in a competition, run by NASA's Earth Observatory, to choose the best satellite image from 2013. The stunning shot got the most...

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Researchers Have Finally Caught An Extremely Rare And Weird-Looking Monkey On...

Here’s something you don’t see every day: Video footage of the critically endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri), a species that was only discovered in 2010.You can count at...

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Top Architect Explains How Chinese Cities Need To Evolve

Beixinqiao district, in Beijing, is changing fast: The ancient urban tissue is being demolished as new high-rises are growing. Located in this environment, Ma Yansong’s office sits within an old and...

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The 11 Easiest Ways To Go Green And Save Cash

These 11 tweaks for greener living will make you feel not only more empowered but a lot richer, too. And none of them (except, okay, maybe No. 7) take any big effort at all!1. Follow a “BYOB” policy:...

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These Charts Show How Our Growing Economy Is Destroying The World

The third working paper from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released Sunday in Berlin.The report shows that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are accelerating despite reduction...

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Here Are The 14 Tallest Peaks On Earth — And The History Of Our Dangerous...

Eight thousand is a perfectly arbitrary number. Yet, no other number looms larger for mountain climbers. Fourteen mountain peaks stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). There could have been many...

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Mount Everest Disaster Could Be Linked To Climate Change

The icy slopes of Mount Everest have seen hundreds of deaths in the years since 1922, when seven people perished during the British Mount Everest Expedition.An avalanche today (April 18) claimed at...

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50 Pictures That Will Make You Fall In Love With Earth All Over Again

Earth is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind place.This is something we may forget, except when we're reminded on April 22, Earth Day.To celebrate the natural world, we've rounded up some of the most beautiful...

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NASA Will Use Your Selfie To Make An Awesome Image Of Earth

Hope you're looking sharp today.NASA is inviting everyone to celebrate this Earth Day, April 22, by taking global selfies.What should you do?"Get outside and show us mountains, parks, the sky, rivers,...

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How Your Credit Card Can Help You Go Green

You’ve probably done a lot of thinking about how to keep your carbon footprint small. Most of us are driving less, recycling more and getting rid of plastic water bottles, all in the name of preserving...

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This Company Wants You To Ditch The Mall And Start Getting Stuff For Free

Just because you need something, doesn't mean you need to buy it new.That's the mantra of Yerdle, a non-traditional e-commerce company that's trying to help empty our garages, attics, and closets of...

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A Small Creek Connects The Atlantic And Pacific Oceans

Reddit user wheatley_cereal has posted a factoid that we have no doubt is widely known among Mountain West residents, but of which the rest of the country is almost certainly unaware: It's possible for...

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5.3 Million Years Of Sea Level Change Can Be Seen On This Cliff Face In Italy

It’s not often that we think about deep time. Lucky to live for a century, humans flitter like mayflies across Earth’s surface, our own epoch an eyeblink in a planetary history that’s largely hidden...

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Scientists Finally Find The Source Of A Mysterious 'Quacking' Sound In The...

A mysterious duck-like sound recorded in the ocean around Antarctica has baffled scientists for decades, but the source of the sound has finally been found, researchers say.For more than 50 years,...

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Here’s Why Today's Global Warming Isn’t A Giant Natural Fluctuation

Shaun Lovejoy is a professor of physics at McGill University and president of the Nonlinear Processes Division of the European Geosciences Union. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert...

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