The unexpected jump in global temperatures since 2023 has helped fuel a relentless assault of associated disasters around the world, including the still-burning LA fires and the deadly Valencia floods, leaving researchers scrambling for explanations.

Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance

We just lived through a full week of the world’s warmest temperatures ever observed during the middle of January

One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel wildfires in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in California.

Every year during its Party for Billionaires in Davos, the World Economic Forum releases a Global Risks Report. It's a sort of funhouse mirror inverse to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a graphically pleasing picture of all the worst shit in the world. And this year, in its release on the report, the WEF offers a fun summation: “‘Bleak’ is the umbrella adjective describing the overall state of things.”

EXCLUSIVE: Salome Balthus, 40, is a high-end escort and author from Berlin who has travelled to Davos, Switzerland, to meet up with clients during the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our apocalyptic visions?

The death spiral of home insurance in climate afflicted areas has begun. The will and means to tackle underlying issues are sorely wanting

Coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has reached “catastrophic” levels, a new study has found.

“Climate whiplash” appears to be a larger advance in climate science marketing than in climate science.

It is 89 seconds to midnight.

Climate crisis and pollution reported as possible reasons for dramatic fall in numbers of cockles, clams and mussels

Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, not improved in years.

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change, according to new research out of The University of Texas at Austin.

Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C.

I stared at the price sheet for my kid’s soccer club in disbelief. $3,100 per year? For youth soccer? That’s more than my family’s entire monthly rent back in the early 2000s. When I was growing up…

Collapse is baked into their business plans.

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

Under the Biden administration, the department had considered the current and future impacts of climate change in almost everything it did, calculating how increased heat, flooding and drought affected roads and other transportation infrastructure.

Vital information is being erased and disappeared, censored and swathed in secrecy

Facial recognition is being rolled out right now, often in subtle ways. Under the guise of making life easier, it’s really about making privacy obsolete.

The deadly crash over the Potomac River is the culmination of an alarming pattern.

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does a 5,000-year-old culture.

We already have a date for the zenith of civilization. May 2024 [Preface. I have no idea who wrote this at https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/ but it rings true to me based on what I know. This is the google English translation of a post ...

The rate sperm concentration is falling globally from samples collected from 1972 to 2000 (orange) and since 2000 (red) Source: Davies 2022 Preface. I've been seeing this issue in science news for years now. Scientific data has accumulated long enough ...

The professor of environmental medicine explains how chemicals in plastics are causing our fertility to decline – and what we can do about it

The victim was a 32-year-old nurse who died from multi-organ failure, the health ministry says.

State officials say the Wyandotte County tuberculosis outbreak is the largest in recorded U.S. history.

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving vaccines are revoked under the new administration

Trump's crypto push amounts to betting the entire U.S. financial system on imaginary money. What could go wrong?

You can't negotiate with cannibals.

Recent events are affording us a splendid opportunity to revisit history (which we can do using our very own human intelligence)

Reflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft