climate change
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The Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Is Now a ‘Mass Casualty Event’
The Pacific Northwest is still reeling from the mind boggling heat wave that gripped it late last month. The past two days have made it clear that hundreds died in the region, and that the climate crisis played a role in driving the extreme heat. It underscores the reality that climate change’s deadly impacts aren’t…
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BBC Lists ‘Positive’ Climate Change Impacts in Study Guide for Kids, Immediately Regrets It
The BBC is getting widespread criticism for creating a study guide for teens that includes arguments about how climate change could make our world better, actually.
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Tucker Carlson Thinks Climate Change Is a Conspiracy to Shrink Your Kids
Tucker Carlson is freaking out about something a professor said at a conference five years ago, as Tucker Carlson is prone to do. He also used those remarks to insinuate they’re about the future scientists want despite that being false, as Tucker Carlson is prone to do.
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Landmark Report Links Earth’s 2 Biggest Existential Threats for the First Time
Mass extinction and the climate emergency each pose an existential threat to life as we know it. A new landmark report shows they must be tackled in tandem to give nature — and by extension, us — the best shot at survival.