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Beat the Heat: Your Guide to Staying Safe in Extreme Temperatures
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Hurricanes Are Boosting Long-term Ocean Warming, New Research Shows
When a hurricane hits land, the destruction can be visible for years or even decades. Less obvious,…Climate Change First Went Viral Exactly 70 Years Ago
We have grown so used to many things. To the pictures of wildfires and cremated animals, to the ice…The Dangers of Crossing Tipping Points
The planet is currently facing a grave threat due to climate change. Global warming is causing… -
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- Tim Radford
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New global database of trees affirms the need for greater conservation and protection of forests to slow the pace of global warming.
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We’re 12 weeks into the Trump administration and there’s a glut of nominations President Trump has yet to put forward. Many are crucial to having a functioning government and setting the priorities for their agencies.
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Temperatures across northern India, including the capital New Delhi, are set to soar well above 100°F (37.8°C) through the weekend and into next week thanks to a pre-monsoon heat wave that has set in somewhat earlier than normal.
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As global companies abandon the Canadian oil sands at a time of low oil prices and huge losses, some of them are also concerned that producing one of the world’s most carbon-laden fossil fuels may be bad business in a warming world....
- Alex Kirby
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Global warming’s greater than anticipated impact on permafrost will release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide as the soil thaws.
- Scott L. Montgomery, Affiliate Faculty, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Arctic lands and waters hold irresistible allure for global oil companies.
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Increased carbon dioxide being removed from the atmosphere by plants will not be enough to compensate for rising greenhouse gas emissions.
- climatecentral.org
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Climate change continues its rapid reshaping of the Arctic as yet another month saw sea ice set a record-low mark. March data just released by the National Snow and Ice Data Center marks six months in a row of near-record or record-low...
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All the right things came together in 2016 for the U.S. to shrink its carbon footprint in some dramatic and record-breaking ways, according to federal data released this week. For two years in a row, carbon emissions from electric power plants...
- climatecentral.org
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In a little over two weeks, scientists and science advocates are planning to flood the streets of 480 cities around the globe. They’ll stand up for science, but March for Science organizers want to make sure they don’t go back...
- climatecentral.org
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Climate change is putting one of the wonders of the world in a vice. For an unprecedented second year in a row, Great Barrier Reef coral have been decimated by a wave of warm water. Last year’s mass...
- climatecentral.org
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In March, the Interior Department auctioned off 122,405 acres of water off Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to the Spanish-based Avangrid for $9 million. Avangrid, a division of Iberdrola, beat out three competitors, including...
- Tim Radford
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The warming of the atmosphere by greenhouse gases is slowing the jet streams which drive the northern hemisphere’s weather, scientists say.
- climatecentral.org
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Some big American coal companies have advised President Donald Trump's administration to break his promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement — arguing that the accord could provide their best forum...
- Tim Radford
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Scientists predict that continued burning of fossil fuels could return CO
- climatecentral.org
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State judges told the California Chamber of Commerce on Thursday that its members don’t have a right to pollute, rejecting claims by its attorneys that payments required to release greenhouse gases under a marquee climate program are a kind of tax....
- @climatecentral.org
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The expunging of climate information from government websites under President Trump continues to march forward with the latest changes happening to the Energy Department. The agency’s climate change page once prominently featured a video about the Paris Agreement...
- climatecentral.org
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Coal in the U.S. is like landline telephones and fax machines — it was everywhere decades ago, but tastes, technology and the market have moved on. So it was little surprise when the federal government reported this week...
- Tim Radford
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Plankton blooms in the Arctic’s increasing number of meltwater ponds are enriching the ocean – but potentially accelerating global warming.
- Prakash Kashwan, Assistant Professor, Comparative Environmental Policy and Politics, Department of Political Science., University of Connecticut
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Many of our planet’s most beautiful areas are also sites of intense conflicts. In a recent example, traditional herdsmen in February took over the land around Mount Kenya, which is a World Heritage Site and biodiversity hotspot, burning down the tourist lodge and bringing in thousands of cattle to graze.
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Like bees, icebergs sometimes roam in swarms. Unlike bees, icebergs can sink ships. It’s with that threat in mind that shipping companies are now avoiding parts of the North Atlantic, where an unusually large swarm of icebergs is making life miserable for...
- climatecentral.org
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New research sheds light on the latest example of the changes afoot, showing that parts of the Arctic Ocean are becoming more like the Atlantic. Warm waters are streaming into the ocean north of Scandinavia and Russia,
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