Adm. Robert Papp, the State Department's special representative for the Arctic, had a slippery time trying to convince Disney to feature characters from Frozen in a climate change PSA project.
Images have surfaced of a badly burned koala receiving treatment in Australia, in case you needed a reminder that the human race is a viral infection doing its best to sap the earth of everything good and beautiful:
The United States and China have just committed to work together on reducing carbon emissions. Which is major—it's pretty much impossible to make meaningful progress on climate change without the two nations presenting a united front, and if we don't make meaningful progress on climate change, humanity is pretty much…
A Japanese researcher has taken a look at how temperature fluctuations attributed to climate change affect the sex ratio of infants, and has found that male fetuses are more vulnerable to extreme weather events, resulting in an increased female-to-male ratio.
If you need yet another reality check on the very real climate changes issues we face, watch this video of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's wonderful presentation to the United Nations.
After giving us an exceedingly cold and snowy winter, the Weather Gods are blessing Chicago and other parts of the Midwest/Northeast with unseasonably cool weather later this week. Think mild and pleasant mid-September temperatures, rather than hot and humid mid-July ones.
Woo-hoo. Summer is awesome. If the bacteria at the beach don't give you hepatitis or diarrhea, you could still experience cramps, vomiting and existential dread, thanks to jellyfish… and the impending jellyfish apocalypse.
Oh Jesus Christ. In news I couldn't make up if I was four days into an Ambien and LSD-induced fugue state, fucking Rush Limbaugh thinks the polar vortex that has basically been making your life a living hell is a Liberal hoax.
When I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two parties' nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America.One believes a woman's right to choose should be protected for future…
Here are the 9 most anti-science candidates currently running for political office in the U.S., care of Mother Jones.
You may have noticed that it's really, really nice out! And after only a few measly inches of snow this "winter," too. Hmmm...warm winter...really warm spring...wait...NOW I GET IT.
You know in Sim City when your city wasn't working out that well so you decided to hit with a tornado and a flood and a hurricane, and then also a monster? According to scientists, that's what's about to happen to the earth. For the first time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has focused not just on…
For those of you who haven't yet found a reason to be worried about the effects of climate change, maybe this will work.
It may sound adorable at first, but if the climate shift is making animals smaller, it changes the foods they can eat and what can prey on them, thus producing "all sorts of unpredictable knock-on effects in the ecosystem."
A new study shows teenage girls could face the worst harm from climate change. That's because families often pull their daughters out of school in times of extreme crisis, and may even sell them as so-called "famine brides." Girls also may not be taught the skills — like swimming or tree-climbing — they need to…
The Arctic's indigenous Sami peoples discovered castrating reindeer helps herds handle winters made worse by climate change. Castrated males keep their antlers longer, allowing them to break through ice to find food, and are more likely to share with calves.
• French researchers have found that listening to love ballads can make women more likely to accept a date from an "average" young man. In order to test this, they played their subjects music by Francis Cabrel and Vincent Delerm.
• Organizers of the Miss Bayside pageant in Australia, which will judge children up to age 13 on modeling, talent, and an interview, claim that it won't be "over the top" like American pageants. Oh, really?
[Copenhagen, December 18. Image via Getty]
[Copenhagen, December 17. Image via Getty]
