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Hateful little cannibal squirrels could help California drought
Belding’s squirrels, long considered a pest, may actually be helping California’s water woes.
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Beef: Still what’s for dinner, still controversial
Are cows destroying the climate? And is grass-fed even worse than grain-fed beef? We take a look at "Defending Beef" by Nicolette Hahn Niman.
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2014 was officially the hottest year ever
The Japan Meteorological Agency released data confirming that 2014 was the hottest year globally since record-keeping began.
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Anchorage, Alaska, is so hot right now
For the first time in recorded history, temps in Anchorage didn't drop below zero all year. Alaskans are freaked out.
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The climate in 2015: Everything’s coming together while everything falls apart
The planet’s changing climate demands that we summon the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe some of the Age of Capitalism as well).
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![Protesters march next to One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan in New York City as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets demanding justice for the death of Eric Garner, December 4, 2014.]()
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Lessons from 2014: If you care about green cities, you must care about justice too
Cities may hold the solutions to our global climate crisis -- but only if we address deep-seated inequities.
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These fantastic maps showed us different worlds in 2014
From rising sea levels and acidifying oceans to rural roads and dollar buses, these exercises in eco-cartography will open your eyes.
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Bad news for wheat and eaters everywhere
Production of wheat -- one of the world’s most important staple crops -- is set to fall by 6 percent for every 1 degree C rise in temperature.
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Could flooding finally wake Americans up to the climate crisis?
Several big U.S. cities could be seeing 30 days of flooding a year by 2020, a new study says.
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This was an epic year for droughts, floods, and extreme weather
Extreme heat, record-breaking floods, and a terrifying tornado in oil country -- all in all, a year we can't afford to forget.
