Sachi Mulkey

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Sachi Mulkey |Claire Brown |Mira Rojanasakul

Summer started barely a week ago, and already the United States has been smothered in a record-breaking “heat dome.” Alaska saw its first-ever heat advisory this month. And all of this comes on the heels of 2024, the hottest calendar year in recorded history. The world is getting hotter, faster. A report published last week found that human-caused global warming is now increasing by 0.27 degrees Celsius per decade. That rate was recorded at 0.2 degrees in the 1970s, and has been growing since.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Sachi Mulkey

8 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Having doubled in strength in less than a day and still expected to grow further, Hurricane Erick on Wednesday chugged through the ideal environment to power up quickly as it approached Mexico’s southern Pacific Coast. This type of rapid intensification has become more common in a …

1 week ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Sachi Mulkey

Levels of mercury in Arctic wildlife could continue to rise significantly even as countries curb their emissions, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed more than 700 samples of fish, mammals and peat collected across Greenland over the past 40 years and found evidence that the mercury in them was distributed by ocean currents.

1 month ago | caledonianrecord.com | Sachi Mulkey

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1 month ago | easy93.com | Sachi Mulkey

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life, making GPS, weather forecasts, and live television broadcasts possible. But space is getting crowded. Ever since the Space Age dawned in the late 1950s, humans have been filling the skies with trash.