climate change
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Drone Video of Bay Area’s Orange Haze Fits Too Perfectly With Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack
A YouTuber has combined drone footage of San Francisco’s apocalyptically orange real-life landscape from Wednesday with music created for the 2017 movie Blade Runner 2049. And it all fits together almost too perfectly.
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Asphalt Could Be Making Air Pollution Worse In The U.S.
There’s a lot of asphalt in the U.S. — approximately 16.2 billion tonnes, according to the U.S. National Asphalt Pavement Association. Unfortunately, it turns out all that asphalt is the source of harmful air pollution, especially in the Northern Hemisphere summer heat.
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Not Driving During COVID-19 Lockdowns Didn’t Do Much To Help Slow Climate Change
The saying ‘a little goes a long way’ doesn’t really apply to climate change, so our piddly break from driving hasn’t really done much to move the needle. A new study found that the roughly three months we were all inside at the beginning of the year only lowered the estimated rise in temperature by…
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California Is Burning: 8,093.72 ha Fire Rages On Uncontained, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate
In case we needed another reminded that climate change is burning up the planet, California officials reported this weekend that a fire in Cherry Valley has burned through 20,516 acres of land and is currently not contained.