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It’s (nearly) official: 2018 was the 4th warmest year in recorded history
The five warmest years have happened within the past five years.
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![Elon Musk, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc., speaks at an unveiling event for The Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel December 18, 2018 in Hawthorne, California.]()
![Elon Musk, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc., speaks at an unveiling event for The Boring Company Hawthorne test tunnel December 18, 2018 in Hawthorne, California.]()
Elon Musk’s tunnel vision totally misses the point
If the point of Musk’s overly complex system is to move actual people, not cars, this is a very bad idea.
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Someone just paid $25,000 to name a worm-like amphibian after Donald Trump
The species’ tendency to bury its head in the sand drew parallels to Trump’s persistent denial of climate change.
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Hurricane Maria cut the height of Puerto Rico’s forests by a third
The storm caused 60 years worth of natural tree-falls in just a day.
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4 ways the melting Arctic is wreaking havoc near you
“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.”
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Welcome to the Eocene, where ice sheets turn into swamps
“The only thing that comes to mind is a meteorite impact.”
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Climate change caused the ‘Great Dying,’ aka the planet’s worst extinction
A new study in Science draws parallels between the cause of this horrific, planet-changing event and the global warming we're experiencing today.
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We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
Yeah, we read each chapter of the National Climate Assessment so you don't have to.
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U.N. climate report card: When it comes to cutting emissions, a dog ate the world’s homework
The gap between what we’re actually doing and what we need to be doing is at its widest point in history.
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It’s not the economy, stupid. Here’s why focusing on money misses the big climate picture.
Pundits keep talking about how climate change could dent the economy up to 10 percent by 2100. This is the wrong approach.
