Earth Stories for 2019

Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
Los Angeles Is Considering Make Uber and Lyft Go All-Electric 108
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 21
The Story of the World's Loneliest Tree 24
Free Returns Come With an Environmental Cost 58
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 70
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Watch Santa Travel Across 3D Globe Via NORAD's Santa Tracker 41
Bushfires Release Over Half Australia's Annual Carbon Emissions 70
Proposed CO2 Capture System Could Reduce Truck Emissions By 90 Percent 83
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower 137
Two Top Scientists Warn That The Amazon, and Earth, Have Reached a Tipping Point 281
Good News For Climate Change: India Gets Out of Coal and Into Renewable Energy 196
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World? 21
Depression and Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study 64
Australia Endures Hottest Day on Record 166
California Coastal Waters Rising In Acidity At Alarming Rate, Study Finds 112
Australia's Bushfires Have Emitted 250m Tonnes of CO2, Almost Half of Country's Annual Emissions 91
Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates 130
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s 282
The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand's Lungs 51
Oceans Losing Oxygen at Unprecedented Rate, Experts Warn 201
Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find 38
Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' 43
Even 50-Year-Old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming 407
Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says 184
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet Are Producing Massive Waterfalls, Raising Scientists' Concerns For Sea Level Rise 176
Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover 270
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
Can We Save Coral Reefs Using Underwater Loudspeakers? 26
Earth is Getting Windier -- Which Helps Wind Turbines Generate More Green Energy 63
With Suction Cups and Lots of Luck, Scientists Measure Blue Whale's Heart Rate 19
The World May Already Have Crossed a Series of Climate Tipping Points 341
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says 263
India's Ominous Future: Too Little Water, or Far Too Much 91
Why 536 Was 'the Worst Year To Be Alive' 146
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Save Earth? 'Move All Heavy Industry into Space' 210
One-Third of Tropical African Plant Species at Risk of Extinction 43
Oxford Dictionaries Declares 'Climate Emergency' the Word of 2019 118
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
Vertebrates Became Predators By Tweaking the Neural Crest 15
The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Continues To Spread Around the Globe 388
China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World 65
Wind Farms Are Sending Giant Turbine Blades To Landfills 334
Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing 31
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Sea Levels Will Rise For Centuries Even If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals Are Met 280
Earth Just Experienced Its Hottest-Ever October 275
'Alarming' Loss of Insects and Spiders Recorded 167
More Than 11,000 Scientists From Around the World Declare a 'Climate Emergency' 395
US Begins Formal Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 245
Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet 181
Sea-Level Rise Could Flood Hundreds of Millions More Than Expected 214
Origin of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana' 67
2.35 Million Lose Power In California As State Faces Extreme Weather and Wildfires 269
'Ocean Cleanup' Project Unveils New Solar-Powered Robot That Collects Plastic From Rivers 27
Does The Green Economy Create More Jobs Than The Fossil Fuel Industry? 206
Satellite Captures Rare Images of Atmospheric Gravity Waves 45
SUVs Second Biggest Cause of Emissions Rise, Figures Reveal 188
Glacial Rivers Absorb Carbon Faster Than Rainforests, Scientists Find 16
Organic Farming is Actually Worse For Climate Change 280
US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says 262
Forecast Suggests Rainforest Could Stop Producing Enough Rain To Sustain Itself By 2021 164
Ocean Acidification Can Cause Mass Extinctions, Fossils Reveal 90
Venezuela's Water System is Collapsing 229
Facing Unbearable Heat, Qatar Has Begun To Air-Condition the Outdoors 183
The Water Crisis Cities Don't See Coming 121
Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter 34
A Look at Earth Archive, a Project To Produce Detailed Maps of All the Land on Earth Through Laser Scanning 14
Exposure To Air Pollution is Linked To an Increase in Violent Crime 85
Some Corals Grow After 'Fatal' Warming 112
Microsoft Plans To Bring Internet Access To 40 Million People By 2022 32
First Meat Grown In Space Lab 248 Miles From Earth 29
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change? 269
The 'Ocean Cleanup' Device Is Finally Catching Plastic 84
315 Billion-Ton Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica 88
Ocean Plastic Waste Probably Comes From Ships, Report Says 97
NASA Launches a New Earth-like Planet Hunting Telescope Using a Giant Balloon 17
New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms 102
Thousands of Ships Fitted With 'Cheat Devices' To Divert Poisonous Pollution Into Sea 150
'We Can't End Climate Change Without Changing Our Eating Habits' 393
Scientists Prepare To Drill For Million-Year-Old Ice In Antarctica 64
The World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm is Nearly Complete. It Can Power 1 Million Homes 334
Gigantic Chinese Telescope Opens To Astronomers Worldwide 28
Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Higher, And It's Accelerating, UN Report Warns 331
Why Is Earth So Biologically Diverse? Mountains Hold the Answer 42
Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online 626
Sony's PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox Join the Fight Against Climate Change 66
Silicon Valley is One of the Most Polluted Places in the Country 71
Climate Change Causes and Impacts Are Increasing, UN Report Says 355
Ask Slashdot: Could Climate Change Be Solved By Manipulating Photons in Space? 382
Is Air Travel Really Bad For the Climate? 171
The Ozone Layer Is On Track To Completely Repair Itself by the 2060s 72
Does America's First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm Portend a Clean Energy Revolution? 175
Makers of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Respond To Criticism of Healthfulness 129
AI Takes On Earthquake Prediction 13
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
North America Has Lost 3 Billion Birds in 50 Years 96
Amazon's 'Climate Pledge' Commits To Net Zero Carbon Emissions By 2040 and 100% Renewables by 2030 40
Philippines Declares New Polio Outbreak After 19 Years 73
'Personal Carbon Sequestration' Device Uses Algae To Remove CO2 From the Air 175
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? 'Maybe 20 Years' 170
Earth Warming More Quickly Than Thought, New Climate Models Show 471
The World Has a Third Pole -- and It's Melting Quickly 146
There's a Lost Continent 1,000 Miles Under Europe 30
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B 151
The Next Energy-Efficient Architecture Revolution: A House Built By Robots 54
Are Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Really Healthier Than Meat? 211
Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't Geothermal Energy Getting As Much Attention As Solar and Wind? 152
Climate Change is Real and Things Will Get Worse -- But Because We Understand the Driver of Potential Doom, It's a Choice, Not a Foregone Conclusion 268
Diesel Cars Emit More Air Pollution On Hot Days, Study Finds 107
Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs 54
22 Million Pounds of Plastics Enter the Great Lakes Each Year 98
Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart Pledge To Scrap Single-Use Plastic Packaging in India 16
A Fingerprint of Earth From Space 14
Hurricane Dorian Is Barely Moving at All. Here's Why That Makes it Especially Dangerous 141
New Zealand Measles Outbreak Prompts Travel Warning 26
EPA To Roll Back Regulations On Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas 141
Jakarta Has Sunk By Up To 4 Meters, Forcing Indonesia To Build a New Capital 90
Brazil Says It Will Reject Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7 240
New 60-Mile Pumice Raft Could Help Restore Australia's Great Barrier Reef 37
Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins 2,650-Mile Sea Voyage 115
Brazil Tries Deploying Its Military To Fight Fires in the Amazon 44
Amazon Rainforest is Burning at an Unprecedented Rate 98
The Planet Needs a New Internet 201
35 Million-Year-Old Asteroid Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern US 36
A New Idea For Fighting Rising Sea Levels: Iceberg-Making Submarines 226
President Trump Is Reportedly Considering Buying Greenland 344
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene 123
Pakistan Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags 111
Microscopic Fibers Are Falling From the Sky In Rocky Mountains 128
Insect 'Apocalypse' in US Driven by 50x Increase in Toxic Pesticides 148
The Banana Is One Step Closer To Disappearing 195
US Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act 146
Increasingly Frequent Marine Heatwaves Can Kill Coral Almost Instantly, Study Finds 37
Russians Rush To Buy Iodine After Blast Causes Radiation Spike 85
Climate Crisis May Be Increasing Jet Stream Turbulence, Study Finds 185
Battery-Powered Ships Next Up In Battle To Tackle Emissions 143
A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises 271
July Was the Hottest Month On Record, Global Data Shows 294
Google Pledges Carbon-Neutral Shipping, Recycled Plastic For All Devices 45
Satellites Reveal 'Hot Lightning' Strikes Are Most Likely To Start Wildfires 43
Study Finds Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing 88
Just 10 Percent of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Cash 'Could Pay For Green Transition,' Report Says 312
Greenland is Melting Away Before Our Eyes 321
Gigantic, Mysterious Radiation Leak Traced To Facility in Russia 139
Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in a Day To Help Tackle Climate Crisis 174
Can Robots Solve America's Recycling Crisis? 148
Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output 249
'No Doubt Left' About Scientific Consensus on Global Warming, Say Experts 453
In the US, Wells Being Drilled Ever Deeper as Groundwater Vanishes 161
Many Animals Can't Adapt Fast Enough To Climate Change 214
Air Travelers May Have To Pay Carbon Charge To Offset Emissions 219
It's So Hot in Nebraska, You Can Bake Biscuits in Your Car 189
Extreme U.S. Weather Brings Power Outages 182
Earth Just Had Its Hottest June On Record 212
Unprecedented Heat Wave Near North Pole 196
Arctic Summer Melt Shows Ice Is Disappearing Faster Than Normal 134
The $20B Plan To Power Singapore With Australian Solar 127
US Heat Waves To Skyrocket As Globe Warms, Study Suggests 395
House Orders Pentagon To Say if it Weaponized Ticks and Released Them 190
Los Angeles is Finally Ditching Coal -- and Replacing It With Another Polluting Fuel 355
Scientists Could Use Aerogel Sheets To Make Mars Surface Fit For Farming 176
Do Elephants Belong In Zoos? Extinction Policy Under Scrutiny 88
Billions of Air Pollution Particles Found in Hearts of City Dwellers 56
Fatal Accident With Metal Straw Highlights a Risk 328
Streaming Online Pornography Produces as Much CO2 as Belgium 169
A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation At Levels 800,000 Times Normal 149
Glacial Melting In Antarctica May Become Irreversible, NASA-Funded Study Suggests 327
Researchers Awaken Ancient Lifeforms Exposed By Thawing Ice Caps and Permafrost 66
The Netherlands National Airline Encourages People To Not Fly 127
Are Parts of India Becoming Too Hot For Humans? 268
Startup Aims To Turn Solar and Wind Power Into Carbon-Neutral Gasoline 109
Tree Planting 'Has Mind-Blowing Potential' To Tackle Climate Crisis 424
California Earthquake Brings Scattered Damage 84
Germany Scorned Air Conditioning -- Then Came the Heat Wave 575
India is Staring at a Water Apocalypse 344
Study Says We've Already Built Too Many Power Plants, Cars To Meet Paris Climate Targets 492
Amount of Floating Antarctic Ice Plunges To Record Lows 172
How The Advance Weather Forecast Got Good 80
Massive Lithium Ion Battery Fire/Explosion Shows Challenges of Renewable Energy Storage 211
Germany's Temperature Record Smashed as Europe's Heat Wave Intensifies 169
NASA Announces New Dragonfly Drone Mission To Explore Titan 85
Airplane Contrails Will Do Triple the Damage They Do Today By 2050, Study Finds 399
After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies 565
Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World 250
'Climate Apartheid': UN Expert Says Human Rights May Not Survive 364
America's Air Quality Is Slipping After Years of Improvement 144
'Vast Quantities' of Recycled Plastics Are Actually Burned Or Dumped In Landfills 172
India's Sixth Biggest City Is Almost Entirely Out of Water 264
Why the Age of Electric Flight is Finally Upon Us 291
The Himalayas Are in Even Worse Shape Than We Thought 245
Norway Island Wants To Be World's First Time-Free Zone 164
Brooklyn-Based Artist Jason Isolini Is Hacking Google To Create Surreal Street View Art 58
World's Population Is Projected To Nearly Stop Growing By the End of the Century 263
Boaty McBoatface Makes Significant Climate Change Discovery on First Mission 108
Arctic Permafrost Melting 70 Years Sooner Than Expected, Study Finds 231
Lab-Grown Meat Will Overtake Plant-Based Alternatives By 2040, Study Says 288
Earth Nearing 'Meteor Swarm' That May Have Caused 1908 Tunguska Event 181
UK Sets New Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2050 Target 115
US Report Finds Sky Is the Limit For Geothermal Energy Beneath Us 154
Canada Plans To Ban 'Harmful' Single-Use Plastics By 2021 307
World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate 95
Scottish Power To Build Vast Battery To Improve Wind Energy Supply 228
Will Car-Sharing Apps Revolutionize Transportation? 77
Bloomberg To Put $500 Million Into Closing All Remaining Coal Plants By 2030 195
Researchers Propose Solar Methanol Island Using Ocean CO2 251
Training a Single AI Model Can Emit As Much Carbon As Five Cars In Their Lifetimes 156
New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming To an End' Starting in 2050 576
Robot Boat Wins $4 Million Ocean Floor Mapping XPRIZE 19
Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life 79
Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China In Plastic 76
Nuke Retirements Could Lead To 4 Billion Metric Tons of Extra CO2 Emissions, Says IEA 200
Plastic Waste Dumped in Malaysia Will Be Returned To UK, US and Others 133
What If We Could Reuse The Packaging on Consumer Products? 178
NASA Executive Quits Weeks After Appointment To Lead 2024 Moon Landing Plan 111
Significantly Large New Emissions From Banned CFCs Traced To China, Say Scientists 310
Tim Cook Says His Era Has Failed by Over-Debating Climate Change 427
The Underground Network of Microbes That Connects Trees Mapped For First Time 45
Ask Slashdot: Would Rationing Air Travel Work To Cut Emissions? 347
Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Graduates To 'Push Back' Against Belief-Reinforcing Algorithms 139
Bankrupt US Coal Producer Was Funding Climate Change Denial 256
American Explorer Completes Deepest Submarine Dive In History 49
Minecraft Earth Goes a Step Beyond Pokemon Go To Cover the World In Blocks 46
Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1 Trillion a Year 384
There is More CO2 in the Atmosphere Today Than Any Point Since the Evolution of Humans 357
How Electric Cars Will Affect Oil Company Investors 181
'Impossible' Research Produces 400 Years of Climate Data, Shows El Nino Now Stronger 162
A Tectonic Plate May Have Peeled Apart - and That Could Shrink the Atlantic 31
Why Airpods Are An Environmental 'Tragedy' 267
Does Recycling Work? 239
Party City Closing 43 Stores As Helium Shortage Hurts Sales 168
A War is Brewing Over Lithium Mining at the Edge of Death Valley 180
How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away 62
Mapping Begins of Lands Lost To North Sea During the Stone Age 82
Scientists Discover a Game-Changing Way To Remove Salt From Water 176
Organisms That Breathe Arsenic Discovered In the Pacific Ocean 41
1 Million Species Are Threatened With Extinction Thanks To Humans, UN Report Says 176
Global Meat-Eating Is On the Rise, Bringing Surprising Benefits 198
Beyond Meat's Shares More than Double After Monumental IPO 132
Expect a Major Asteroid Strike in Your Lifetime, Says NASA Head 219
Indonesia Plans To Move Its Capital Out Of Jakarta, A City That's Sinking 95
How Much Do Amazon Deliveries Contribute To Global Warming? 209
Electric Vehicles In Germany Emit More CO2 Than Diesel Ones, Study Shows 432
Uber Admits It Wants To Take Riders Away From Public Transit 190
Scientists Live-Tweet Chilling Faux Asteroid Impact Scare 72
Scientists Discover What Powers Celestial Phenomenon STEVE 51
First 'Marsquake' Detected on Red Planet 34
Melting Permafrost In Arctic Will Have $70 Trillion Climate Impact, Study Says 408
Greenland Is Melting Even Faster Than Experts Thought, Study Finds 265

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