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The world just keeps breaking heat records
2015 is on track to be the hottest year on record.
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Use behavioral science to help fight climate change, says Obama executive order
The first annual report from the administration's Social and Behavioral Sciences Team offers promising psychological nudges.
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Where’s the snow? It’s at a 500-year low in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains
An "ominous sign of the severity of this drought," researchers said.
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While you’ve moved on to other news, drought-parched California is still burning
Things are looking grim in the Golden State.
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U.S. and China pledge city and state climate action
The next step in the two superpowers' climate partnership is getting cities and states to step up their green game.
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You don’t even wanna know what happens if we burn all the fossil fuels
But it involves no more Antarctic ice and WAY more ocean.
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New York’s natural gas pipelines are leakier than your grandpa
Old infrastructure is spewing a greenhouse gas all over Manhattan.
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This drought is so bad that even Seattle is running out of water
Climate changes spell bad news for this famously wet city.
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A surprising link between superintelligent robots, global warming, and mass extinction? Nope, not really
It takes a lot of scientific stretching to suggest robots will rise from the ashes of climate change. But apparently this is an argument.
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Climate change will destroy the planet’s circulatory system
You never thought you cared so much about ocean currents ... until now! Two new studies suggest that melting ice sheets could disrupt the oceans' flow.