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Scientists store glacier chunks in an Antarctic vault for safekeeping
Glaciers are data, and all that precious data is disappearing.
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Obama administration’s offshore wind plan would power 23 million homes
The National Offshore Wind Strategy calls for major investments in offshore wind farm construction.
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Climate change made Louisiana’s devastating floods more likely
A new study finds that similar downpours can now be expected every 30 years.
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Forest fires may be natural, but that doesn’t make them popular
Our new policy to let forest fires burn is inspired by nature. Unfortunately, nature doesn’t always behave as we’d like.
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The warmer it gets, the more it snows in Antarctica. Huh?
Counterintuitively, a warmer planet means more snow on the Southern Continent. And that's a good thing.
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Severe drought in India pushed thousands of farmers to suicide
Why was this drought worse than others? Blame climate change and modernization.
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Antarctica is about to lose a chunk of ice the size of Delaware
It could destabilize one of the continent's largest ice shelves.
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The uncertain, hopeful future of the National Park Service
"The goal of our centennial is not to scare everyone to death about climate change."
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From Glacierless National Park to the Neverglades: Meet your future national parks
The parks are having an identity crisis -- so we renamed them.
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Louisiana’s flood couldn’t have been stopped, but it didn’t have to be so devastating
A set of canals, levees, and reservoirs that could have staunched Louisiana's floods had been deemed impractical.
