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Time to have a cow about dead cows
An early blizzard in South Dakota and Wyoming recently left a trail of bovine tragedy -- and a reminder of the side-effects of climate disruption.
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L.A. Times won’t publish climate-denier letters
Factual inaccuracies -- like claims that there's no evidence for human-caused climate change -- don't belong on the letters-to-the-editor page, the Times says.
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Get ready for record temperatures … for the rest of your life
In 35 years, U.S. cities consistently will be hotter than their hottest year on record.
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Who created the global warming “pause”?
How climate skeptics and the media -- with a little inadvertent help from scientists themselves -- forged a misleading narrative.
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Letter from Chip: Back from the brink
A first visit to New Orleans offers shoots of hope in an otherwise grim season of futile shutdowns and sobering forecasts.
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Using legos to explain carbon emissions to a child — or every adult who doesn’t get it
This short video is a simple explanation of the global carbon budget.
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Sylvia Earle has spent almost a year of her life under water
The scientist and explorer warns that the oceans are “not too big to fail.” But she also says we may be growing wise enough to save them.
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Abandoned Russian farmland soaks up 50 million tons of carbon every year
Farmers abandoned 1 million acres of farmland after the USSR collapsed, creating what might be the world's biggest human-made carbon sink.
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Say goodbye to Yosemite’s largest glacier
Yosemite National Park's largest glacier could disappear within 20 years, robbing the park's ecosystems of a steady water supply.
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Frackers are chewing up Pennsylvania’s forests
Oil and gas drillers are carving the state's woodlands into smaller chunks -- and that's bad news for wildlife.