During the past week, temperatures at the highest reaches of the Greenland ice sheet rose above freezing, melting snow at the Summit Station (10,550 feet above sea level) for the first time since July 2012 and perhaps only the third time in the last seven centuries. Across lower elevations around the margins of the ice […]

Friday Night Ride to the Coast has been spreading the joy of night riding for almost 15 years Sam Walker Mon 5 Aug 2019 07.00 BST Participants in the Friday Night Ride to the Coast. Photograph: Courtesy of FNRttC If you missed this year’s Dunwich Dynamo, or feel that it’s a little too big, chaotic

By Winnie Hu Aug. 8, 2019 New York City officials have carved out plazas for pedestrians in the middle of Broadway, a storied street where cars have ferried V.I.P.s in ticker-tape parades. They have taken away more and more traffic lanes and parking spots to make room for bikes and buses. Now, officials are taking

Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning. Robinson Meyer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers climate change and technology. 3:57 PM ET 1. There is no shortage of scary facts in the major new report on climate change and land, a summary of which was released today

Facebook) AUG 9 Swarm the entry to A102 in protest against the Silvertown Tunnel Extinction Rebellion Greenwich and 3 others Tomorrow at 7 AM – 9:30 AM · 20°C Rain The Angerstein Hotel 108 Woolwich Road, SE100 London, United Kingdom Extinction Rebellion Greenwich — So excited to see you all at our swarm on Friday

It would be hard to imagine a world without bicycles. They are everywhere and chances are that most or all of you reading this can or have ridden one at some point in your life. The history of this apparently simple mode of transport is a long and interesting one but the modern bicycle, as

Wed 7 Aug 2019 Humanity faces an existential crisis. Officialdom won’t act – and I could no longer stand by and just watch Just before my 57th birthday, after a lifetime of professional work, paying my taxes and obeying the law, I found myself in a police cell with a single blanket and a hard

Germany is building a car-free bicycle highway that will stretch to 62 miles, once completed. When finished, it will connect 10 German cities, including Duisburg, Bochum, and Hamm, as well as four universities. It has been built to help minimize car pollution and is projected to get 50,000 cars off the road everyday, once completed.

By Mark Kaufman2 days ago Alaska’s exceptional summer continues. The most rapidly changing state in the U.S. has no sea ice within some 150 miles of its shores, according to high-resolution sea ice analysis from the National Weather Service. The big picture is clear: After an Arctic summer with well above-average temperatures, warmer seas, and