A dumping ground for nuclear waste located near the British coast is "virtually certain" to be washed away by rising sea levels, a new report warns. The UK Environment Agency has admitted that constructing the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository so near the coast was a mistake, and that one million cubic meters of nuclear waste will begin leaking into the ocean "a few hundred to a few thousand years from now."
At this point, we all know that California’s superdrought is bad—really bad
We’ve blown our chances of fully counteracting the effects of climate change; recently-released reports from the International Energy Agency and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) provide plenty of evidence. But all hope is not yet lost, we’ve still got a small chance to keep from irreversibly poisoning our atmosphere. Here’s what the world’s governments must do to save the Earth before we cook ourselves clean off the face of the planet.
California’s chief snow surveyor ventured into the Sierras this week to see how much water the state can expect from the spring melt—and he came back with very bad news. The devastating drought that the state’s been dealing with the past few months will continue to devastate for the foreseeable future.
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A new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that global temperature rises will likely be "severe, pervasive, and irreversible" in coming years. In other words, we’re all doomed.
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The White House has announced that it’s teaming up with Google and Microsoft to centralize its climate change data—and make it more accessible for public and researchers alike.
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Intellectually, we all know that sea level rise is real—but it’s hard to imagine exactly how it’ll effect us in the long term. A new study does just that by calculating which UNESCO Heritage Sites are most at-risk for being submerged by the rising tides. The results are devastating.
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This week marks six years since the Svalbard Seed Vault opened to serve as an agricultural Noah’s Ark for humanity. Within its walls, scientists have collected nearly one million seeds from all over the world—just in case. Now, they’re adding many more.
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California needs rain, and they need it bad. How bad? Just have a look at the GIF above. The first image shows Folsom Lake near Sacramento on July 20, 2011. The second image shows Folsom Lake on January 16, 2014. Notice a difference?
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The internet can be a tough place to distinguish fact from fiction. Who has time to fact-check all those beautiful, weird, and sometimes horrifying pictures? Well, we do.
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