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Watching Fox News makes you distrust climate scientists
New research shows that global warming denial is partly fueled by negative treatment of scientists in conservative media.
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Global warming leads to darker ice leads to more global warming
As ice thins, the Arctic gets less reflective -- and that's bad news.
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Keystone study contractor under scrutiny by State Dept. watchdog
Does the consulting firm studying the environmental impacts of Keystone XL have a conflict of interest? State's Inspector General is looking into the question.
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Former Republican EPA chiefs back Obama on climate change
EPA administrators who served under Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II co-sign an op-ed in The New York Times calling for climate action.
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Sally Jewell doesn’t want any climate deniers at Interior
In an address to her department, the secretary of the interior called climate action a "moral imperative."
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Global warming could cause 50 percent increase in violent conflict
Scientists see fresh evidence of a strong link between climate change and violence.
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Should we turn deserts into carbon-sucking tree plantations?
To save the world from global warming, some scientists think we should vegetate the world's deserts out of existence.
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Alaska’s heat wave breaking records, killing salmon
Heat records are being broken across Alaska this summer. It's not clear whether the persistent heat is linked to global warming, but it has been implicated in a salmon die-off.
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Richard M. Daley wants to make your city more sustainable
The former Chicago mayor is launching a company to help cities pursue money-saving infrastructure investments.
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We are consigning hundreds of coastal cities to destruction. Who cares?
New research shows that sea-level "lock in" -- the amount of sea-level rise we are making inevitable through carbon emissions -- is growing rapidly. Do we, should we, care about what will happen so far in the future?