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Which is more likely to drive people from their homes — floods or heat waves?
In some areas of Pakistan, it's the heat waves, though they get less attention from the media and international aid organizations.
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It hasn’t rained this much in England since 1767, or maybe since ever
January's rains and floods were the worst on record -- which is just the sort of thing climate-change models have been forecasting.
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Ocean temperatures spiked in 2013
The next time somebody bends your ear about a supposed "global warming pause," just show them these two graphs.
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In the American West, a battle unfolds over bugs, climate change, and the fate of an iconic species
To delist or not to delist? When it comes to grizzly bears' "threatened" designation, it's not clear they are out of the woods, as the woods itself is threatened by climate change.
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Low impact: State Department says Keystone won’t hurt much at all
The latest report isn’t the final word, but it gives President Obama one more excuse to approve the pipeline project protesters detest most.
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What kind of a U.N. envoy will Mike Bloomberg be?
New York's ex-mayor will travel the globe as U.N. special envoy on cities and climate change. Can a billionaire credibly address global inequality?
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Great Barrier Reef will be smothered with silt, because coal
An Australian agency has given Indian and Australian coal mining companies permission to dump silt from a dredging project in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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Oh rot: Climate change could topple Northwest’s Douglas fir forests
Root-rotting fungi already take a huge bite out of the region's timber business. Now, scientists warn that it will get much worse.
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Did spying take Copenhagen from Hopenhagen to Brokenhagen?
New documents show NSA snoops worked hard to spy on the U.S.'s negotiating partners in 2009's failed climate negotiations.
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Climate change is directly responsible for killing baby penguins
Torrential downpours and abnormal heat could kill nearly half of penguin chicks in a single year, say researchers.