Despite the massive changes brought about around the world in 2020, one factor has managed to maintain its status quo from the pre-pandemic era: global warming is still on the rise. In terms of being the hottest January-through-June period on record, 2020 is second only to 2016’s El Niño-fueled firstread more
A small town in Siberia’s far north has recently gained the dubious distinction of breaking a record-high temperature for the Arctic, hitting 100.4°F (38.0°C), a temperature typically only experienced in heat waves that occur much farther south. Although it’s only a small community of only 1,100 people just north ofread more
Each year, hurricane season doesn’t officially start in the Atlantic until June 1, but two named tropical storms formed and faded in the weeks before the start of the month, making 2020 the sixth year in a row that the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season saw an early start. Although theread more
In his April 22 International Earth Day speech, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called on the world’s governments to use their post-COVID pandemic economic recovery efforts to rebuild the world economy based not on the old paradigm, but rather on that of one based on a new, clean, green-basedread more