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The “butterfly effect” usually means that some small, seemingly insignificant happening leads to a nonlinear series of events, resulting in something major or catastrophic. In this case, it's a lot more direct. Climate change, a result of humans…

The Gulf Stream is one of the most important forces on Earth that you will never see. This powerful ocean current brings warm waters from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean, carrying them past the east coast of the United States, all the way…

We know hurricanes are becoming more frequent occurrences and happening outside of the typical hurricane season, but this is ridiculous. According to a study published last month in the journal, Nature Communications, scientists have officially…

Imagine the entire city of Los Angeles breaking off from the state of California and drifting off to sea. That is basically what happened last week in Antarctica when, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a massive iceberg measuring in…

It's 11:02 p.m. on a Sunday night and you have an assignment due at midnight. You knew that this paper was due tonight weeks ago — thank you syllabus — but you are just now sitting down with a mostly blank Word document and need to fill it with…

The unprecedented cold weather that plagued Texas earlier this month resulted in tragedy. Millions of people lost power, thousands were forced to endure freezing temperatures with no relief, and at least 80 people died due to the cold. But much of…

In the days leading up to the devastating winter storm that left millions of Texans without power and killed at least 80 people, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott got a call from a weather expert. Unfortunately, that expert was Joe Bastardi. The professional…

Satellite images of rivers across the U.S. have revealed a troubling color-changing trend: Over the past three decades, one-third of formerly blue rivers have turned a shade of yellow or green. The discovery comes after an analysis of nearly 235,000…

The lightweight, boxy U.S. Postal Service mail truck that you've grown accustomed to seeing drive up and down your street for the last 30 years is about to be replaced. On Tuesday, the USPS announced a long overdue makeover for its mail trucks,…

Prisons across the country rely on management software to keep track of their inmates — including tracking when they are supposed to be released. But in Arizona, the state's Department of Corrections has reportedly failed to keep its software up to…

If you're a writer or someone who works primarily online, you likely rely on live published examples to keep your portfolio afloat. Whether that means you're a writer, an artist, or even a developer, it's important that you can point to these…

Passengers onboard United Airlines Flight 328 on Saturday probably would have settled for seeing a Twilight Zone-like creature sitting on the wing of their plane instead of the actual visual that appeared outside the window: the engine ablaze. After…

An unprecedented winter storm has hung heavy over Texas for the past week, leaving millions without power when the state's power grid, reliant largely on fossil fuels, froze up and failed. Many of the gas and oil facilities around the state are once…

More than three years after former President Donald Trump announced plans to pull the United States out of the multinational Paris Agreement, America has once again joined the sweeping environmental framework, Secretary of State Antony Blinken…

This week, Facebook in Australia looked dramatically different than it ever has before. While the company has a history of tweaking the colors or layout of its news feed, the change this time was due to a much more drastic and unprecedented step: It…

Five days into an ongoing statewide emergency, there are still nearly 4 million people in Texas who are without power as an unprecedented winter storm strikes the southern state. At least 23 people have already died, while thousands of others are…

Amid record cold temperatures and skyrocketing energy demand, utilities across the central U.S. have ordered rolling blackouts to ration electricity, leaving millions of people without power. Energy expert Michael E. Webber explains why weather…

At 21 years old, Disha Ravi is one of the most active and influential climate change activists in India, a country that is among the world's worst carbon emitters. Now, she is in jail. Authorities in New Delhi have locked up the young activist,…

Conditions became dire over the weekend in Texas, where an unprecedented wave of winter weather has crashed upon the typically warm state. Power outages have left millions stranded in record-low temperatures with little to do but wait for the cold…