2019 is now officially the second warmest year on record, according to a joint press release from NASA and NOAA, with 2016 still holding the dubious distinction of being at the top of the global warming thermometer. Unfortunately, because the planet has seen consistent year-over-year temperature increases, the 2010s areread 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
Despite having been downgraded from a fierce Category-5 storm to a Category-2, hurricane Dorian had stalled over the northern Bahamas for over 36 hours–extremely unusual behavior for a tropical storm–killing at least nine people and destroying tens of thousands of homes, causing “unprecedented and extensive” destruction, according to Bahamian Primeread more