Climate and Environment

Climate Change Is Real And It’s Already Affecting Your Health
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Climate Change Is Real And It’s Already Affecting Your Health

When it comes to climate change, the debate is over. A new review of more than 88,000 climate-related studies has confirmed what scientists have been saying for decades: more than 99.9% of peer-reviewed research agrees that climate change is largely caused by human activity. The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial emissions are accelerating…

Earth’s Heat Imbalance Is Doubling—What That Means for Your Health
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Earth’s Heat Imbalance Is Doubling—What That Means for Your Health

Earth is holding onto more heat than it releases back into space, and scientists say this imbalance has more than doubled in just two decades. While the physics may sound abstract, the effects are very real: hotter days, harsher storms, and shifting health risks that touch us all. What Does “Energy Imbalance” Mean? Earth’s climate…

Animal Consciousness Proven in Bees, Fish, and Crabs
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Animal Consciousness Proven in Bees, Fish, and Crabs

Bees play with wooden balls for fun. Fish recognize themselves in mirrors. Octopuses avoid places where they experienced pain. These aren’t random behaviors—they’re signs of consciousness that scientists can no longer ignore. Nearly 40 leading researchers just signed the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, stating that creatures from honeybees to lobsters likely have inner…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions at ‘All-Time High’: How the Climate Crisis Could Be Undermining Your Health
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions at ‘All-Time High’: How the Climate Crisis Could Be Undermining Your Health

Greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high—and while much of the conversation focuses on the fate of the planet, there’s another urgent consequence you might not be thinking about: your health. According to a major new analysis from 50 leading scientists, human-caused warming has accelerated more rapidly than expected, pushing the planet and its…

California’s Largest Land Back Deal Returns Land to Yurok Tribe
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California’s Largest Land Back Deal Returns Land to Yurok Tribe

What does it mean to lose the land that raised you only to reclaim it generations later, scarred but still sacred? Along the misty banks of Northern California’s Klamath River, a powerful shift has taken place. More than 120 years after colonial expansion stole their homeland, the Yurok Tribe has won back over 47,000 acres…

Ancient ‘Dinosaur Tree’ Bears Fruit for the First Time in UK Backyard: Why It’s a Big Deal
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Ancient ‘Dinosaur Tree’ Bears Fruit for the First Time in UK Backyard: Why It’s a Big Deal

What if a tree in your backyard had roots older than humanity itself? Imagine walking past a quiet patch of your garden each morning watering, pruning, going about your routine, unaware that the plant you’re tending once shaded the feet of dinosaurs. Not metaphorically, but literally. That’s exactly what happened in Worcestershire, England, where a…

Can a Water Bottle Really Start a Fire in Your Car? Yes, Here’s How
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Can a Water Bottle Really Start a Fire in Your Car? Yes, Here’s How

On a hot summer day, the inside of a parked car can hit 130°F or more in under an hour. That’s well-known. But what most people don’t expect is that something as ordinary as a half-empty water bottle could turn into a fire hazard. It sounds like an urban myth until you see the burn…

Bees Can Soar Above 30,000 Feet: Here’s Why We Should Care
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Bees Can Soar Above 30,000 Feet: Here’s Why We Should Care

Forget everything you thought you knew about bee flight limitations. Scientists have discovered that some bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest, reaching simulated altitudes where most helicopters struggle to operate. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, tested alpine bumblebees from western China in controlled conditions that mimicked the oxygen-starved, low-pressure environment found at…

Earth’s Subtle Tilt Is Pointing Us Toward the Next Ice Age
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Earth’s Subtle Tilt Is Pointing Us Toward the Next Ice Age

If Earth’s climate were left to its own devices, we’d be on a slow, steady path toward another ice age — one that would bury much of the Northern Hemisphere under massive ice sheets in about 10,000 years. That prediction isn’t guesswork. It’s based on cycles that have repeated for nearly a million years, driven…