We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Everyone has a favorite Kubrick film, Supremes song, or baseball player – anything whose value can be judged, categorized, or argued about in a presumed pantheon of greats. Alas, ranked lists are hard to compile and open to much debate. My best may be your st…

Existential risks are risks that would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life, or permanently and drastically curtail its potential. Most of them – say, bioterrorism or climate change – are created by human beings and are not being treated by go…

Many have asked how the world might end and several great post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows have provided answers.

Cumulative emissions matter the most for longer-lived gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. Cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide since 1850 are about two and a half trillion tons—from all the coal mines ever dug, all the oil and gas ever burned, a…

The earth gets hotter, as rich nations continue their coal, oil and gas burning spree, while those who urge a course correction get…thrown into prison. The latest casualty of a judiciary dedicated to preserving ecocidal plutocracy is Extinction Rebellion’s Ro…

Author summary Climate anomalies appear to have played an important role in facilitating the establishment of a new invasive strain in the 6th cholera pandemic, with climate and environmental conditions similar to those underlying strain changes associated wi…

We would love to see these '90s movie favorites earn a sequel in the vein of Twisters.