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Here's The Most Detailed Picture Yet Of How Much The World's Oceans Are Warming

But to truly understand the remarkable ways in which human emissions are altering Earth's climate system, scientists need to find out what is going in the world's oceans. T...

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Environment

El Niño’s Causing Havoc Around The Globe — And Could Make 2015 The Hottest Year On Record

It’s too early to say whether year’s recurrence of El Niño will end up being the most powerful on record, but it’s expected to be among the top con...

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Environment

Unless Earth Is Hit By A Huge Asteroid, 2015 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year On Record

"This marked the sixth consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken and was also the?greatest departure from average for any month?in the 1,630 mon...

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Environment

Nearly 40,000 Displaced After Cyclone Chapala Slams Into Yemen

The storm, with its extremely heavy rains and flooding, affected as many as 1.1 million people, and displaced more than 36,000, according to the United Nations Office for t...

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Environment

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Coral?

In 1998, an unusually sweltering El Ni?o did more than just break temperature records around the world?it heated up the oceans enough to spur what scientists came to call t...

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Sustainable Development

A Weather Tracking Black Hole Is Helping Uncover The Mysteries Of Tornadoes

Humans still make up our most reliable tornado sensor network, and in the north, that network is especially weak because of how few people live there, compared to the more ...

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Sustainable Development

Obama New Executive Order Says The US Must Build An Exascale Supercomputer

President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised. The Natio...

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Environment

This Satellite Is Sending Amazing Images Of Earth – And Protecting Us From Solar Flares

A million miles from Earth, a new satellite with a long history is now keeping an eye on both our own planet and the particles flowing from the sun. The satellite, position...

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Environment

Here's Why Dolphins Continue to Die in the Gulf of Mexico

Researchers say they've now firmly connected the high rates of dolphin deaths seen in the northern Gulf of Mexico to the 5-year-old Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which damag...

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Environment

CO2 Levels Reach Monthly Record

Global carbon dioxide concentrations have reached a new monthly record of 400 parts per million, according to scientists. The milestone was announced by the US National Oce...

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