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Super' El Nino Looks Set To Ruin The Lives Of Many Of The World's Most Vulnerable People

With peak temperatures expected in January or February, Oxfam America has estimated that the "Super El Ni?o"" could cause at least 10 million of the world's poorest people ...

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Environment

A Huge Algae Bloom Off The Pacific Coast Is Poisoning Shellfish And Sea Lions.

A poisonous algae that could sicken humans if they consume infected seafood is spreading in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from Southern California north to Alaska. The mass...

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Environment

Fossil fuel companies are the greatest threat to life’s party – not greens

People who argue it’s a good idea to respect nature’s thresholds get labelled spoilsports, but the real party-poopers are those who recognise no limits at all &...

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Environment

Global is the new local: Pollution changes clouds, climate downstream

The residents of Beijing and Delhi are not the only ones feeling the effects of Asian air pollution ? an unwanted by product of coal-fired economic development. The contine...

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Environment

Climate shift in the Pacific may accelerate global warming

With 2014 likely to be declared the world's hottest year on record, the last thing the planet needs is a climate shift to turbo-charge the global warming already under way....

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Environment

Irreversible But Not Unstoppable: The Ghost Of Climate Change Yet To Come

Unlike Scrooge, we don?t get a spirit to show us what the future holds if we don?t change our ways. That?s what we have science for. In recent years, observations have conf...

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Environment

Pacific winds change the speed of global warming, says new study

The strength of the trade winds that cross the Pacific can affect how quickly the planet warns, new research suggests. By analysing the chemical makeup of corals in the tro...

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Environment

Why Increasing Antarctic Sea Ice Doesn't Mean Climate Change Isn't Happening

Antarctic sea ice reached a record high this year, topping 20 million square kilometers (nearly 8 million square miles) in September - a milestone it hadn't touched since 1...

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Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Grants $2 Million To Ocean Conservation

The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation provided $2 million to Oceans 5, an international funders’ collaborative dedicated to stopping overfishing and establishing marine re...

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Environment

Climate Change Could Happen Slower for the Next Decade

Atmospheric temperatures are expected to rise slowly in the next decade Temperatures have risen more slowly in the past decade than in the previous 50 years and will contin...

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