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Math whiz tackles the big carbon sink puzzle
Inez Fung is on a mission to find and account for every gram of heat-trapping carbon dioxide on the planet. And she knows where most of it is hiding.
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Google searches for ‘global warming’ go down when unemployment rises
Do people care less about global warming during recessions? University of California economists Matthew Kahn and Matthew Kotchen have a new paper that uses three interesting measurements to suss out the relationship between "Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle."
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Reports of BP disaster's death are greatly exaggerated
A narrative downplaying the BP spill has emerged in the press. Meanwhile, oil continues to wash ashore and the long-term effects remain unknown.
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Why 'clean coal' will never, ever matter
Carbon capture and sequestration, the great hope of the coal industry, makes no economic sense under any scenario in which there's a price on carbon pollution. Here's why.
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The Gulf's invisible villain: natural gas
You can't see or smell the methane that poured into the ocean with the oil, but experts say it's stealthily destroying marine life.
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The state of the climate [VIDEO]
2009 tied for fifth-warmest year since the 1880s, and 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record, according to NOAA. Watch a Climate Central video.
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Restore honor to America on August 29, 2010
On Aug. 29, 2010, thousands will gather at the location where the levees broke in the lower 9th Ward to remember those who died in the flood.
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Billionaire polluter David Koch: Global warming is good for you
In a recently published New York Magazine profile, pollution billionaire David Koch lies about his support for tea-party radicalism, cracks racist jokes, and denies the threat of global warming.
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Unexpected consequence of climate change: animals getting horny
One thing we know about climate change is that the world is going to be getting weirder. For example, a hotter world may mean certain critters are getting their freak on more often. That's right, hot animal sex!
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China's now a leader in the good, the bad, and the ugly
Crack open the flat seltzer. The U.S. is no longer the world's top energy hog. That dubious distinction now goes to China, although China insists there's been a terrible mistake.