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Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away
In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, it &...
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Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse
The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record. Measurements released last week by the National Snow and Ice D...
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There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change
The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4 mi...
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At Least 14 Dead And 100 Missing After Quake Topples Apartment Tower In Taiwan
At least 14 people are dead and more than 100 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the city...
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The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change
The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missions...
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Threatened By Militias And Traffickers, Mali's Desert Elephants Could Be Extinct In 3 Years
In 2012, poachers began targeting the Gourma elephants. Now, in the face of ongoing political instability — armed militias and traffickers in arms and drugs —...
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The US Wants To Make Oil, Gas, And Mining Companies More Transparent About Their Deals
Environmentalists and transparency activists are feuding with energy and mining interests over a proposed US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation that would req...
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'War Of The Woods’ Over A Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With A Peace Agreement
The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 85 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches throu...
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The Environmental Protection Agency Says Fracking Is Safe — But Its Scientific Advisors Disagree
Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as ...
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Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea
But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully wip...
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