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Climate change means more wildfires, and that means lots more air pollution
In California, air pollution from wildfires is expected to soar over the coming decades, according to new research.
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![Old boat on the Chott el-Jérid Salt Lake, Tunisia]()
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Tunisia’s new constitution calls for climate protection
The country that kicked off the Arab Spring has now committed to fighting global warming.
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Senate votes to keep subsidizing flood insurance in flood-prone areas
Climate change and fiscal prudence be damned.
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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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![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
![The Keystone Oil Pipeline is pictured under construction in North Dakota in this undated photograph released on January 18, 2012.]()
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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![The Whitsundays, in the Great Barrier Reef]()
![The Whitsundays, in the Great Barrier Reef]()
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.
