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White House smacks down climate deniers in new video
Presidential science advisor John Holdren explains that cold weather does not in fact disprove global warming.
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Why is Chris Christie silent on climate change, even as New Jersey is threatened by rising seas?
One environmentalist charges that the state has muzzled employees from talking about climate in relation to Superstorm Sandy. The Christie administration denies the charge.
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Yet another oil train explodes, this time in New Brunswick, Canada
A train carrying crude oil and propane jumped the tracks and burst into flames, triggering evacuations in a town just beyond the Maine border.
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California’s cap-and-trade program could fund high-speed rail
Gov. Jerry Brown wants to take $250 million raised by the state's carbon-trading program and put it toward a fast train between L.A. and San Francisco.
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Street artists trace against time — and sea-level rise
Here's the story of how a quirky art project morphed into a surprisingly powerful tool for rallying communities to fight climate change.
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Another ship gets stuck in Antarctic ice, and it still doesn’t disprove global warming
The U.S. Coast Guard is on its way to rescue a ship that got stuck in ice while trying to rescue another ship that got stuck in ice. Why so much ice? A rescued scientist explains.
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In weather this cold, you can make snow out of boiling water
Temperatures of -42 degrees in Ontario meant one resident could make it snow by shooting a Super Soaker full of boiling water into the air.
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Why the Arctic is drunk right now
The jet stream is too inebriated to walk a straight line, bringing Arctic temperatures to the U.S.
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California is dangerously short on snow
The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is way low, suggesting that Californians can look forward to a year of drought and water shortages.
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Fracking could be bad for babies
New research finds that infants born near fracking wells in Pennsylvania had lower birth weights and more health concerns than other newborns.
