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Could ‘peer progressives’ turn the climate around?
In his new book, "Future Perfect," Steven Johnson finds inspiration in internet-style collaboration. But what about the planet?
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Coming soon to a horror movie near you: Antarctica is being invaded by king crabs
Warmer water on the seafloor has allowed king crabs to swarm into a previously inaccessible ecosystem.
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Lizard named after Obama was wiped out by climate change
They named a lizard after POTUS 44. It is too short to play basketball, and too extinct to spend the next four years telling John Boehner to go fuck himself.
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Republicans are having lots of fun objecting to Sandy relief funding
Though some people are still without power on Long Island, Republicans still think it's a good time to try to score a political point.
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This video of a city-sized iceberg breaking off from a glacier will blow your mind
Watch the largest glacier breakup ever filmed.
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King tides give California coast a taste of warmer, wetter future
It's just natural gravity at work this time, but soon the waters could be this high all the dang time.
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People aren’t connecting extreme weather to climate change — at least, not on Google
Google's annual report on top searches prompted us to check out who looked for info on Hurricane Sandy, drought, and global warming.
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Forecast for the Northeast by 2070: Much warmer, much rainier winters
Winters in the Northeastern U.S. will have less snow and more rain in the future. As a native, I find this heartbreaking.
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Geoengineering expert: Tinkering with climate is tempting, also ‘kind of insane’
Re-engineering the climate is often dismissed as quackery, but will desperation and runaway warming drive us to it? Granger Morgan thinks it might.
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2012 saw the fewest wildfires in a decade — but the second-most acres burned ever
NASA's map of the year's wildfires in the U.S. is jaw-dropping.