Aram Zucker-Scharff

A climate journalism superteam assembles with THE CITY for the newest episode of Hazard, now in NYC! Episode one kicks off an essential listen for anyone living in northern Brooklyn: LISTEN: Can a Contaminated Creek Come Clean?

“It’s hard to escape the feeling that we are living a cli-fi novel’s Chapter One.”

– Dana Goodyear on the California drought.
(via newyorker)

We’ve Lost So Much Antarctic Ice It’s Causing A Dip In Earth’s Gravity:

An ESA satellite has spotted something unusual happening in the Antarctic: As the ice has dwindled there over the last five years, they’re also seeing a change in the Earth’s gravity.

“According to the U.S.G.S., the state lost just under 1,900 square miles of land between 1932 and 2000. This is the rough equivalent of the entire state of Delaware dropping into the Gulf of Mexico, and the disappearing act has no closing date. If nothing is done to stop the hemorrhaging, the state predicts as much as another 1,750 square miles of land — an area larger than Rhode Island — will convert to water by 2064. An area approximately the size of a football field continues to slip away every hour. “We’re sinking faster than any coast on the planet,””

– Louisiana Loses Its Boot.