5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (227+ words) A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock. The frozen water within these fractures, which helped to stabilize the volcanic slopes for thousands…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (795+ words) The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (462+ words) In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr. of Detroit, a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue an executive order and undo…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (878+ words) Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news cycle, particularly on social media, which is known…...