Sumatran elephants are critically endangered.

Watch out for the solar flare that’s supposed to hit Earth today! It’s the strongest since 2005.

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President Obama might pump increased domestic oil and gas production in his State of the Union.

Al Gore goes on a cruise to Antarctica … no, sorry, he’s “journeying [with]….leading scientists and thinkers to see firsthand how the climate crisis is unfolding.” Sounds like vacation to us.

Maybe geoengineering won’t tooootally screw up the planet even worse than we already have?