San Francisco Bay just installed a network of thermal cameras to track gray whales in real time — not because anyone wanted to build a marine surveillance grid, but because whale ship collisions have become routine enough to warrant one. Last year alone, 21 dead gray whales washed up in…
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Ancient Eruptions Tanked the AMOC in Years, Not Centuries — And Carbon Emissions Are Next in Line
Another month, another study warning that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the oceanic conveyor belt keeping northern Europe from turning into Siberia — is more fragile than anyone wants to admit. This time, researchers at Texas A&M dug into sediment records dating to 12,900 years ago and found that…
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Doomsday Clock 2026: Closer to Catastrophe, Further From Solutions
The Doomsday Clock 2026 announcement landed this week with all the fanfare of a fire alarm in an empty building. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock four seconds closer to midnight. We’re now at 85 seconds — the closest humanity has ever been to self-inflicted annihilation since…