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- Fossils Of The 21st Century https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-fossils-of-the-21st-century-1830693850 3 comments
- New Bill Would Halt Crypto Mining In New York for Three Years https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-bill-would-ban-bitcoin-mining-across-new-york-state-1846828277 10 comments technology
- Indonesian Oil Refinery Ablaze After Massive Explosion http://earther.gizmodo.com/indonesian-oil-refinery-ablaze-after-massive-explosion-1846573253 7 comments worldnews
- Huge Red Flag for Glaciers in Little-Studied Antarctic Region https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-huge-red-flag-just-popped-up-in-a-little-studied-regi-1846345394/amp 3 comments worldnews
- Mystery Israel Oil Spill Is Its Worst Environmental Disaster in Years https://earther.gizmodo.com/mystery-israel-oil-spill-is-its-worst-environmental-dis-1846324150 57 comments worldnews
- The Siberian Tundra Is Doing That Exploding Thing Again- A new study from the Woodwell Climate Research Center has identified three new craters in the region’s increasingly volatile permafrost, and the climate crisis is to blame. https://earther.gizmodo.com/methane-is-blowing-more-holes-in-the-arctic-1846242991?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=110609692&_hsenc=p2anqtz-8gswnn3app1cwtbedxqnjyfkkcofptdy27fj-alnhe9u5n1580kisc2uxk_z41vucakwxsiml0mcp1dfj5yntwmisjog 8 comments science
- Scientists find 20 new species of animals near the Andes Mountains https://earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-just-dropped-a-bunch-of-new-animals-1845812686 29 comments worldnews
- World's Biggest Iceberg Is on a Collision Course With Wildlife-Filled Island. Satellite imagery shows the iceberg, which is larger than Rhode Island, drifting northeast towards the British overseas territory of South Georgia. https://earther.gizmodo.com/worlds-biggest-iceberg-is-on-a-collision-course-with-wi-1845581479 11 comments worldnews
- The Atlantic Ocean Hasn't Been This Hot in at Least 2,900 Years https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-atlantic-ocean-hasnt-been-this-hot-in-at-least-2-90-1845348711?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=97377248&_hsenc=p2anqtz-_pny1lr4w-swgqts0enezre5p4n2uowjuikvcnj5o9yd0ci5s3vszsb5a7mlmail9pdalszui26ixvhjdpjtetnnrvqq&utm_content=97377248&utm_source=hs_email 46 comments science
- On Monday, Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people filed a potentially world-changing lawsuit - they’re suing five of the world’s major carbon polluters on the grounds that the countries are violating their rights as children https://earther.gizmodo.com/its-kids-vs-the-world-in-a-landmark-new-climate-lawsui-1838343565 13 comments worldnews
- Offshore Wind to Become So Cheap, the UK Will Pay People to Use It https://earther.gizmodo.com/offshore-wind-is-on-the-brink-of-becoming-so-cheap-the-1844517885 3 comments europe
- Typhoon Vongfong Rapidly Intensifies, Heads for the Philippines: Vongfong is expected to reach Category 4 status with winds of 132 mph. That would also make it a super typhoon, words you don’t really want to hear ever, but particularly during a pandemic. https://earther.gizmodo.com/typhoon-vongfong-rapidly-intensifies-as-it-heads-for-th-1843443041 3 comments worldnews
- Amazon Fores Deforestation Has increased up to 51%, as coronavirus pandemic allowed to oversight from illegal loggers. https://earther.gizmodo.com/deforestation-spikes-in-the-amazon-amid-coronavirus-cri-1842844704 10 comments worldnews
- US Carbon Emissions Are on Track to Fall a Shameful 4 Percent by 2050 https://earther.gizmodo.com/us-carbon-emissions-are-on-track-to-fall-a-shameful-4-p-1841392107 4 comments worldnews
- Earth's Most Biodiverse Regions Are Collapsing https://earther.gizmodo.com/earths-most-biodiverse-regions-are-collapsing-1841277948 83 comments worldnews
- Over 55 Climate Scientists Call BS on Joe Biden's Claim No Scientists Support Bernie Sanders' Climate Plan https://earther.gizmodo.com/over-55-climate-scientists-call-bs-on-joe-bidens-claim-1841318428?fbclid=iwar0fgzauf8_1pm1kpivcoavly5ozqxeww9wmq7ew2lu3v9d_icen5l5_4y4 4 comments science
- Scotland is on track to hit 100% renewable energy this year https://earther.gizmodo.com/scotland-is-on-track-to-hit-100-percent-renewable-energ-1841202818 911 comments technology
- More Than 350 Employees Risk Their Jobs to Call Out Amazon's Climate Failures https://earther.gizmodo.com/more-than-350-employees-risk-their-jobs-to-call-out-ama-1841243939?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=82463445&_hsenc=p2anqtz-8kwcgxi-tqrqh3iaglr7h_hnxfrlivln3zex7kovtb4j0znq751tzn0d5mvcj0xvwk2xdp_ufx7kou5hea2aaypkdnog&_hsmi=82463445 13 comments technology
- Extreme Heat Is Another Legacy of Segregation- study found that 94 percent of the 108 urban areas studied experience temperatures as much as 7 degrees Celsius (12.6 degrees Fahrenheit) higher in formerly redlined neighborhoods than non-redlined. https://earther.gizmodo.com/extreme-heat-is-another-legacy-of-segregation-1840979371/amp?__twitter_impression=true 6 comments science
- An Estimated 1.25 Billion Animals Have Perished in Australia's Bushfires https://earther.gizmodo.com/an-estimated-1-25-billion-animals-have-perished-in-aust-1840875792?utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&fbclid=iwar0sw27gonnxfbcyyl7jixnkg6ysz8qi1kdpuesjj2cmbohatem23ma1voa 3 comments worldnews
- ExxonMobil Wishes Australia a 'Fun' New Year as Country Burns in Climate Crisis https://earther.gizmodo.com/exxonmobil-wishes-australia-a-happy-new-year-as-country-1840758432 319 comments worldnews
- Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons in Australia as Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality https://earther.gizmodo.com/water-thieves-steal-80-000-gallons-in-australia-as-our-1840549648?ir=t 324 comments worldnews
- Venice High Tide Floods City, Worst in 50 Years https://earther.gizmodo.com/venice-under-a-state-of-emergency-as-historic-high-tide-1839827180 3 comments worldnews
- Google is funding climate change denialism https://earther.gizmodo.com/google-is-funding-climate-change-denialism-1838973522 116 comments worldnews
- We May Have Been Thinking About a Carbon Price All Wrong- the price should start high and, after a few years of ramping up, decline over time. https://earther.gizmodo.com/we-may-have-been-thinking-about-a-carbon-price-all-wron-1838662832 13 comments science
- Massive Climate Strikes Erupt Worldwide for the Second Week in a Row https://earther.gizmodo.com/massive-climate-strikes-erupt-worldwide-for-the-second-1838521876 147 comments worldnews
- There are at least 4 billion bits of microplastic floating in Tampa Bay. Researchers collected samples of water and sentiment from Tampa Bay over a 14-month span, sometimes using a net typically employed to catch the tiniest plankton. https://earther.gizmodo.com/tampa-bays-water-is-home-to-more-than-4-billion-bits-of-1838100918 6 comments science
- The Amazon Has Seen More Than 100,000 Fires This Year, Causing Spike in Air Pollution https://earther.gizmodo.com/amazon-forest-fires-soar-past-100-000-causing-spike-in-1838007724 6 comments worldnews
- A Weather Station Above the Arctic Circle Hit 94.6 Degrees Fahrenheit https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-weather-station-above-the-arctic-circle-hit-94-6-degr-1837274379 21 comments science
- More People Die Defending the Environment in a Year Than UK and Australian Soldiers Combined- at least 684 defenders have been killed protecting their land over the past 15 years. https://earther.gizmodo.com/more-people-die-defending-the-environment-in-a-year-tha-1836970941 3 comments science
- Native Hawaiians arrested during protests over construction on sacred ground https://earther.gizmodo.com/hundreds-of-astronomers-denounce-arrest-of-native-hawai-1836497851 6 comments worldnews
- Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire https://earther.gizmodo.com/satellite-images-show-vast-swaths-of-the-arctic-on-fire-1836500468 10 comments worldnews
- Climate change is set to kill off most of our nation’s Joshua trees by the end of the century, acc. to a recent study. While some Joshua trees will hang on if humans rapidly lower their carbon emissions, if no action is taken to stop climate change we’ll lose nearly all of these iconic spiky tress. https://earther.gizmodo.com/joshua-trees-are-being-wiped-out-by-climate-change-1836456677 16 comments science
- That big California earthquake left a scar that's visible from space. https://earther.gizmodo.com/that-big-california-earthquake-left-a-scar-thats-visibl-1836189157 7 comments space
- The Terrifying Reasons We're Confronting the Chernobyl Disaster Right Now https://earther.gizmodo.com/why-were-confronting-the-chernobyl-disaster-now-1835235381 6 comments science
- The UK is quickly becoming the epicenter of the offshore wind industry. On Monday, the first part of the world’s largest and furthest offshore wind farm came online. https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-just-came-online-1835215479 13 comments worldnews
- Endlessly Recyclable Plastic Now a Reality https://earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-say-theyve-cooked-up-an-endlessly-recyclable-1834591910 18 comments science
- Evidence For Global Warming Passes Physics' Gold Standard Threshold https://earther.gizmodo.com/evidence-for-global-warming-passes-physics-gold-standar-1832926344?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=earther_twitter&utm_campaign=top 15 comments worldnews
- France's Gas Tax Disaster Shows We Can't Save Earth by Screwing Over Poor People https://earther.gizmodo.com/frances-gas-tax-disaster-shows-we-cant-save-earth-by-sc-1830877858 107 comments economy
- Australia Is Bracing for an 'Insane Fire Season' https://earther.gizmodo.com/australia-is-bracing-for-an-insane-fire-season-1828550060 5 comments worldnews