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Oil on Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac reveals risks of offshore drilling
Images of oil leftover from 2010's BP spill washing up on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Isaac serve as a sad reminder that it’s impossible to clean up a major marine oil spill.
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Watch the Arctic thaw, in video and graph form
Like ruin porn, but with ice. Ice porn.
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Our constantly warming summers, animated
Animated data from NASA clearly shows how temperatures are rising.
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Arctic ice melt has global-warming impact equal to 20 years of CO2 emissions
Give me like another two hours and I'll find the silver lining here. Still working on it.
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Climate change could lead to a rise in brain-eating parasites
Maybe nothing is weird about the rise in cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Or maybe climate change is making conditions more hospitable for this warm-water-loving parasite and we're all gonna dieeeeeeeeee.
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The Arctic is getting wetter and the Amazon is getting drier and cats are chasing dogs
Well, that last part isn't true.
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When it comes to the weather, we are basically cavemen
Which is to say: lots of updates on the drought and the hurricanes -- including Isaac, who may be on his way back.
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The Anthropocene explained, game-show style [AUDIO]
Everything you need to know about the Age of Man in just five – OK, seven, minutes.
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New documentary lets you watch glaciers disappear
Anyone who is not a raging moron knows that glaciers are melting really fast. We should probably be constantly consumed by worrying about our waterlogged future, yet we somehow manage to sit around having conversations about, like, cheese. The reason is pretty simple: We can’t see glaciers. They are Far. Which is why National Geographic […]
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Three-man crew traverses Northwest Passage by sailboat
The once-impassable M'Clure Strait saw enough ice melt last week that the sailboat could pass through -- though not without some nervousness on the part of the crew.
