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A bigger, badder climate ‘hockey stick’
New research takes the deepest dive ever into historic climate records -- and comes up still blaming humans for recent warming.
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Surf’s way, way up: Sea-level rise, explained
It's choose your own adventure: sea-level rise apocalypse edition! Here’s your chance to decide what the future will look like.
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Carbon dioxide levels made a big, scary jump in 2012
Last year saw the second-biggest spike in CO2 levels on record, meaning we're even less likely to meet goals for keeping climate change in check.
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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.
