This is the backup plan if all our crops are wiped out
It belongs in sci-fi — but it actually exists in reality. On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds...
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The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and...
Global warming that brought crazy winters may be driving crazy summers: study
Is the rapid melting of the Arctic paying us back for our greenhouse gas emissions by messing with the jet stream — which carries weather through the northern hemisphere? And...
Your home is full of devices that never turn off, and they’re costing lots of money
If your home has a smart meter, here's an experiment: Log in to your power company's Web site, and see how much electricity you use during the hour from 3...
This wintry weather does not refute global warming
WASHINGTON — If you live in the U.S., you have been feeling insanely cold lately. The area south of Buffalo, N.Y., got 70 inches of snow this week — an...