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Small-scale farmers fight back against the climate monster
"Small Scale Farmers Cool the Planet" shows how organic farmers just might hold the key to slaying the biggest beast of our age.
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These 2 heroic scientists died while studying the climate
Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo were studying the Arctic's lowest winter ice cover on record. Then they fell through it.
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Dear climate scientists: Just tell it to us straight, please
This researcher is calling out climate scientists for watering down their work to appease politicians.
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Shell’s oil rig is already falling apart — and it hasn’t even left for the Arctic
The Noble Discoverer failed a Coast Guard inspection in Honolulu. So why is it still heading to Seattle?
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These satellites are keeping an eye on California’s underground water
To the list of benefits satellites offer us, we can now add "monitoring our disappearing water."
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We just hit 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, for a whole month
We should be trying to get down to 350 ppm, if we want to avoid the worst of climate chaos, but instead the CO2 concentration keeps rising.
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New EPA carbon rules would save thousands of lives, science says
The Obama administration's proposed rules for power plants could save nearly 5,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone.
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Seattle’s mayor gums up Shell’s Arctic drilling plans
The oil giant wants to park its Arctic drilling rigs in Seattle's port, but the city is throwing up roadblocks.
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Could wildfires undermine California’s grand climate goals?
California has the most ambitious climate plan in the nation, but if it loses too many trees to fire, it will have a hard time meeting its targets.
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Ticks are spreading — and so is Lyme disease
Warming temperatures expand the range of ticks, lengthen the season, and increase the chances of one giving you Lyme disease. Shudder.
