National Parks System Advisory Board Resignation Further Proves the Administration Doesn’t Care About the Environment
A letter dated Monday was signed by the head of the advisory board Tony Knowles and eight of the 12 members.
Read MoreLast Week Tonight Covers What Leaving the Paris Agreement Means for the Climate Change Movement
On yesterday's Last Week Tonight, the main story was Donald Trump's decision to take the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the misinformation that accompanies that choice, and the consequences of doing so.
Read MoreAdam Ruins Everything Reminds Us Why Trump Withdrawing From the Paris Agreement Hurts Climate Change Efforts
With the U.S. withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, Adam Conover reminds us why it was such an important first step against climate change.
Read MoreDakota Access Pipeline Is Already Leaking and Hasn’t Even Started Moving Oil Yet and OMG Why Don’t People Listen?
We don't have to worry about the havoc it could wreak on the environment, they said. Everything will be fine, they said. In what is sadly and merely the latest thing about which Trump, his administration, and his supporters have already been wrong (the man has only been "in charge" for a little over three months), the DAPL has already had a leak and a spill. And it hasn't even started actually shipping oil yet.
Read MoreThe Great Barrier Reef Is NOT Dead, Actually, and Scientists Want You To Stop Sharing That Obituary
Outside Magazine recently published an "obituary" for the Great Barrier Reef, and according to the current tally at the bottom of their post, it's been shared 1.21 million times. That's too bad, because according to experts, it's not true.
Read MoreNetflix Streaming Claims to Be “More Energy-Efficient Than Breathing”
So only do one of those things.
You know what's super energy efficient? Death. Failing that, though, Netflix Streaming wants to assure members that watching a bunch of BoJack Horseman is the next best thing!
Read MoreYour Downloadable Games May Be Worse for the Environment Than Game Discs
No wonder those birds are so angry.
All those darn vidya games that you kids are downloading over the online are clogging up the air! There's just too much data flying around up there, and it's polluting everything! In my day, we used a series of tubes!
Read MoreMillions of Salmon Taking California Road Trip To Avoid Drought
Those fish better pitch in for gas.
This should convince you that the natural world is in balance (not): if California's drought doesn't end soon, bizarre measures will be taken ensure that hatchery-raised salmon survive their migration. Last Monday, California cemented plans to transport juvenile fish to the Pacific Ocean via tanker truck.
Read MoreNepal Introduces Garbage Tax For Mountain Climbers Because Mt. Everest Is Covered In Poo Pyramids
See, this is exactly the reason I won't climb Everest.
Don't feel bad about not being a hotshit mountain climber: apparently Everest explorers have been leaving behind supplies and "pyramids of human excrement" for decades. In order to combat Trash Mountain Syndrome, Nepal announced this week that anyone who wishes to prove themselves on the deadly slope must now pay for their adventure in garbage.
Read MoreCanadian Scientists and A Beetle’s Butt Harness The Power Of Fog
But for good or evil?
Fog: not just for lighthouses and ruining pictures anymore! New technology in Australia and Canada shows that capturing the moisture in fog may be the answer to ending droughts. (And when I say technology, I mean a beetle's butt.)
Read MoreThe Littlest Extinction: Amazon Deforestation Wipes Out Microbial Communities, Too
Flowers Could Clean Up Polluted Land, Act As Nanoparticle Factories
Japanese River Otter Declared Extinct After Three Decades
How do you know when an animal has actually become extinct? Environmental agencies throw out data about endangered species all the time, but it's hard to imagine that the last member of a species dying wouldn't be some kind of terribly tremendous event with a column of light shooting into the sky like the quickening... or, you know, something like that. Unfortunately, it seems that animal species' leave the face of this world without a bang or a whimper. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment has declared the Japanese River Otter to be extinct, since no person has seen the species in the wild in over 30 years.
Apple Products Will Be Rated by EPEAT Once Again
Apple announced on Monday that none of the company's future products would be submitted to the EPEAT. This essentially stated that Apple would be abandoning their environmentalist policies. After they received a fair amount of grief regarding the issue, Apple's Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield released an official statement today that Apple products would continue to be included the EPEAT.
Read MoreUnited States Broke 2,284 Daily High Temperature Records in June
If you happen to live in the United States, chances are you've noticed it's been a bit hot lately. That's all anecdotal, sure, but folks across the States are saying the same thing: It's too hot to go outside. But if you're the sort that likes that have some data behind your whining, the National Climatic Data Center has some results that shouldn't come as a surprise. During the month of June, the United States broke 2,284 daily high temperature records. It has now been confirmed that it has, indeed, been hot.
Coal Industry Lambasted With Fake “Coal Cares” Website
There Is A Castle On A Cloud, Making More Clouds
Looks like Cosette from Les Miserables may have been right: There really could be a castle on a cloud someday. Well, techinically it's a water tower, but close enough.
Atelier Ramdam Architects have designed this precarious structure for Latina, Italy. And they're gonna make it rain. Literally. As seen below, the structure will bring evaporated water from the foot of the structure up through the central column to the canopy at the top. The supply will be stored here, partially used to water the vegetation that will be grown at the top. But also emanating from the bottom of the canopy are, you guessed it, real clouds, bringing some rain back down to the basin below and making the whole thing look divinely inspired.
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