Dharna Noor
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Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Court Rules
Pablo Escobar’s hippos have a lawyer. And a good one at that. In a U.S. first, a court recognised the... → Read More
A Drone Will Rescue Three Dogs Trapped by La Palma Volcanic Eruption
Three dogs that are trapped near the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Islands may soon be saved by a drone.... → Read More
Dammit, Coal’s Back
The dirtiest fossil fuel is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S., but it could usher in a dark age for... → Read More
Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At
On Thursday, a strange scene unfolded at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden took the stage... → Read More
Is Seafood a More Climate-Friendly Option Than Eating Meat?
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Gizmodo answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do → Read More
Capybaras Are Waging Class War in Argentina
You know how capybaras always seem to have a slightly sceptical look on their faces? Turns out what they’re sceptical of might be rich people’s → Read More
This Hauntingly Beautiful Image Shows Greenland’s Massive Melt
The image above is beautiful, but looks can be deceptive. It shows there’s way too much ice is melting in Greenland, and we should all be → Read More
Greek Scientists Want to Name Heat Waves Like Hurricanes
Greece has suffered through a summer of hellish heat. Now, experts want to give heat waves names and rankings like the ones assigned to hurricanes and → Read More
It Rained at the Summit of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time Ever Recorded
Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event — its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a → Read More
No, Hermit Crabs Are Not Trying to Bone Plastic Trash
Have you ever been turned on by someone — or something — you knew was trash? Reading the news today, you’d think that was happening to crabs. A → Read More
Five Big Takeaways From the New UN Climate Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s massive new report, published early Monday morning, makes it absolutely clear that the climate → Read More
U.S. Wildfires Are Sending Carbon Offsets Up in Smoke
Eighty-six large forest fires are burning across 12 states. Among the trees they’re torching are ones being used as carbon credits, showing the → Read More
It’s Beluga Cam Time
Beluga cam is back, baby. That means you can once again catch a glimpse of the estimated 57,000 Beluga whales that migrate from the Arctic to the → Read More
Ban Mansions
Individual choices about consumption won’t solve the climate crisis alone. But for the richest among us, some forms of polluting pleasure are going → Read More
Fish Can Get Addicted to Methamphetamine
When people consume drugs, they metabolize a good portion of them. But what isn’t metabolized can come out when people pee, and sewage treatment → Read More
Nobody Knows How Many People the Pacific Northwest Heat Has Killed
The record-breaking heat wave that’s blanketed the Pacific Northwest this week has quietly killed dozens across the region. Not everyone is affected → Read More
The ‘Sea Snot’ Invasion Has Arrived
The climate crisis is making Earth more dangerous with increasingly severe and frequent fires, storms, and droughts. It’s also making the world grosser. Case in point: It’s responsible for a sludgy substance spreading across waters in Turkey. Ew. The stuff, unofficially and disgustingly known as “sea snot,” was first recorded... → Read More
It’s Sundress Weather in the Arctic
It’s only May, but it feels like summer has arrived in my hometown of Baltimore. Since I woke up, I’ve been counting the hours until I can drink iced cocktails on my deck while wearing a sundress. Can you blame me? It’s 26.7 degrees Celsius out. There’s another reason I... → Read More
Just 20 Companies Create 55% of Plastic Waste
Plastic producers have tried to make us think that individuals can solve pollution by improving our recycling and shopping habits. A new study makes it clear why that’s their tactic. Just 20 companies are responsible for more than half of the world’s trashed single-use plastic. The Plastic Waste Makers Index,... → Read More
Melting Ice in the Alps Has Revealed World War I Relics
At a park in the Italian Alps, researchers have unearthed a trove of World War I relics that was previously hidden beneath layers of ice and frost. → Read More