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How climate change worsened violence in Syria
International security experts explain how low rainfall can evolve into violent conflict.
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Giant 2,000-pound camels used to live in the Arctic
Back when the Arctic was a slightly-less-frozen wasteland, one-ton camels roamed its plains.
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Global warming is causing flying squirrels to engage in miscegenation
The northern flying squirrel and the southern flying squirrel are beginning to mate. It might be because of climate change. Or maybe they're just really attracted to each other.
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Learning from the cap-and-trade debate
The author of a much-discussed report on failed climate legislation reflects on what she's learned, and what activists need to do next.
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The children: Why a generation is putting itself on the line for the climate
How do you decide that change is worth risking arrest? Three student activists talk about their public motivations and private fears.
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Volcanoes are keeping the planet from boiling over — for now
Pollution from volcanoes has been reflecting heat away from Earth, slowing global warming, a new study suggests.
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NYT, WaPo cut back environment coverage, since we’re not worried about that anymore
The New York Times kills its environment blog and the Washington Post reassigns its crack climate reporter to cover politics. Apparently there’s just not much news on the environment front these days.
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Knock it off, NYT: In defense of James Hansen and other climate hawks
NASA's top climate scientist weathers a public slam from the NYT's Joe Nocera, and the Maldives' Mohamed Nasheed gets arrested on trumped-up charges.
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Australia officially blames climate change for ‘angry summer’
Australia's Climate Commission says global warming caused its harsh summer of record-breaking heat, floods, and bushfires.
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This 8-year-old understands global warming better than most of Congress
If Fox News wanted to hire this kid as science correspondent, we wouldn't object.