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These 10 countries have pledged $2.3 billion to fight climate change. The U.S. isn’t one of them.
Contributions to the Green Climate Fund have been slow and low.
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Climate change’s relationship with the sea just got more mysterious
OK, so the mile-deep ocean isn't warming that much -- but that's no reason to break out the denier kibble.
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The cruel, increasingly usual prison punishment no one is talking about
Climate change and urban heat islands are making life inside the big house even more intolerable for the guilty and innocent alike.
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Chicago’s garbage trucks will be rollin’ on volts
Our trash won't be riding dirty for too much longer. North America's first electric garbage truck is rolling through Chicago.
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35,000 walruses start their own climate march
Shrinking sea ice forces walruses to flop ashore en masse.
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Oyster prices could skyrocket if we don’t change our shellfish ways
That's the bottom line according to a scientist at the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the country.
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150 hurricanes later, these island people can teach us a few things about surviving climate change
The Gullah/Geechee Nation sits on a 35-mile-long string of islands on the Atlantic Seaboard. When storms hit, these folks take the brunt of it.
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Climate change is driving heat waves around the world
A new report pins the blame for a recent spate of heat waves on human-caused climate change -- but for the California drought, the evidence is murkier.
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The little island that could is going 100 percent renewable
El Hierro stands mere months away from its all-renewable goal, thanks to a wind farm that stores excess energy in a connected water turbine system.
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Watch this adorable scientist explain climate change with Cosby sweaters
The cute climate scientist will stop at nothing to fight climate change denial.
