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Why President Obama should keep his promise to tackle climate change
Hurricane Sandy gave us a big, fat, election-season wake-up call on the climate. The president says he got the message. Now it’s time for action.
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More bad news about glaciers — and therefore sea levels
Bhutan's glaciers are going to drop in size even if the world doesn't get warmer -- and more melt means higher oceans.
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‘The climate gap’: Extreme weather hurts poor the most
Droughts, floods, storms, and fires hit America's low-income communities hardest, according to a new analysis.
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If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month
Astonishing: If you were born in or after April 1985, you have never lived through a month that was colder than average.
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Three battle plans for fixing climate in Obama’s second term
To charge ahead on climate action, Obama could follow one of these three paths to victory, ripped from military history.
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The latest dirty player in the Petraeus scandal: Coal
Coal has only a bit, bit, bit part -- but you shouldn't be surprised it turned up.
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New York Gov. Cuomo: ‘We will lead on climate change’
Post-Sandy, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for big-scale action to prepare for future storms and reduce energy use.
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In the future, wind turbine blades could be made out of vegetables
Unlike some fuel sources we could name, wind power doesn’t dump tons of carbon into the atmosphere. But that doesn’t mean turbines don’t come with their own environmental issues. Those majestic, gigantic turbine blades — which start at 37 yards long and can weigh more than 15 tons — eventually wear out and have to […]
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You want a carbon-tax bill? Jim McDermott has a carbon-tax bill
Rep. McDermott was ahead of the curve on this one: He introduced a carbon-tax bill back in August. We talked to him to find out more.
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Ken Burns: Before Sandy, there was the Dust Bowl
The filmmaker talks about the worst human-made ecological disaster in U.S. history, and what it teaches us about future climate catastrophes.