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It's Official: 2015 Is The Hottest Year On Record

Average land and sea surface temperatures for the year ran 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.62 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average, the US National Oceanic and Atmosph...

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Environment

El Ni?o Worsens Drought In Southern Africa ? And 14 Million People Could Go Hungry

Nearly three million people will be affected in Malawi ? roughly 16 percent of the country's population ? while nearly two million are considered at risk on the Indian Ocea...

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Environment

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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Festivals

18th Annual Environmental Film Festival Returns To Eckerd

It is free and open to the public. This year’s festival includes two films—Embrace the Serpent and How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate C...

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Environment

18th Annual Environmental Film Festival Returns To Eckerd

It is free and open to the public. This year?s festival includes two films?Embrace the Serpent and How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can?t Change)...

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Environment

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

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Environment

Apathy And Progress Are Killing Turkey's Famous Flamingo Lake

Inside the yard, mountains of the blindingly bright salt are piled three stories high by a conveyer belt being fed by a convoy of trucks. Except for three men sitting aroun...

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Environment

All Of The Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living In The Anthropocene

What follows in “The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene,” a new study published in Science, is a laundry list of huma...

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Environment

There’s Not Much Snow In The Alps — So Petting Zoos Are Replacing Skiing

The holiday season in the Alps this year was one of the driest in recent memory. According to Laurent Vanat, a winter sports consultant based in Geneva, the overall economi...

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Environment

Raging Fires in Southern Australia Have Destroyed 100 Homes

The community of Yarloop, south of Perth and home to an estimated 545 residents, was the hardest hit, with Reuters reporting that nearly all of structures, including the po...

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