Evolution demands only one thing of all of the extant species on Earth: adapt to an ever-changing world, or be left behind by the changes made to that world. And in the face of the rapid pace of current climate change, the Scottish red deer that inhabit Scotland’s island ofread more
The world Meteorological Organization has released their WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin for 2018, and unfortunately last year’s average carbon dioxide concentrations in the planet’s atmosphere followed the continuing trend year-over-year increases, resulting in a new annual record for CO2 levels. Average concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2018 reachedread more
An abandoned repository of over 3.1 million cubic feet (87,782 cubic meters) of radioactive debris left over from nuclear testing in the South Pacific is in danger of being cracked open by rising ocean levels, threatening to spill large amounts of the nuclear waste contained within—including highly-toxic plutonium—into the surroundingread more
The average sea ice extent for the month of October was the lowest on record for that month, averaging only 5.66 million square kilometers (2.19 million square miles), beating the previous record-holder, October 2012, by nearly a quarter-million square kilometers. This was due to abnormally warm conditions across the Arcticread more