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Getting warmer: More Republicans are starting to take climate change seriously
Sen. Kelly Ayotte is among a handful of politicians trying to shift the GOP's approach. A recent Conservative Clean Energy Summit had the same goal.
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Climate change is forcing people to migrate and the world doesn’t have a plan to handle it
People who flee climate-related disasters need help from the U.N. and the global community. Instead, we're still arguing over what to call them.
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Russia takes a skeptical approach to climate change thanks to Putin
Vladimir Putin isn’t very worried about climate change, but Russia should be.
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The state of carbon pricing is messier than we might like to think
There's not much chance of a global carbon price emerging from Paris, but smaller cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes are in effect around the world.
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Christie was the only Republican asked about climate at the main debate — and he got it all wrong
Chris Christie acknowledges that climate change is real, but his comments about it at Wednesday's debate were still awfully ignorant.
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These two Republican presidential candidates defended climate science during debate
Watch George Pataki and Lindsey Graham say CO2 is heating up the planet. Too bad they were at the second-tier debate instead of the first.
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Is the USDA trying to silence a pesticide researcher?
A whistleblower complaint says the feds suspended a researcher because they didn't like his findings that a popular pesticide is harmful to monarch butterflies.
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This ad might be one of the only factual things you’ll hear during the Republican debate
The 30-second commercial about climate change is part of a TV ad buy from NextGen Climate.
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The Middle East could be looking at 140-degree days thanks to climate change
A new study suggests that, unless we cut carbon emissions drastically, the Persian Gulf is going to become an uninhabitable inferno.
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Paul Ryan, incoming House speaker, is a right-wing extremist who wants to screw over the climate
Under Ryan’s vision for the country, our shift away from fossil fuels and cars would be impeded and our air and water quality worsened.
