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Growing forests gobble up carbon like growing teenagers raiding the fridge
Some secondary forests that regrow after deforestation can absorb up to 11 times more carbon than Amazonian old growth forests
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Greenland is melting and dumping phosphorous into the Arctic Ocean
And as plankton munches on that phosphorous, its impact could ripple up the food chain.
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Is the Zika outbreak connected to climate change?
A look at Zika, climate change, and whether the mosquito is spreading to the U.S.
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Climate change is about to give these fuzzy creatures a rough wake-up call
Animals that rely on snow to stay warm in the winter are gonna be a lot colder when there's less snow around.
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Record hot years near impossible without human-made climate change
There's just a 0.01 percent chance that recent run of global heat records could have happened due to natural climate variations, a new study shows.
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Map shows how Michigan’s lead problem extends far beyond the Flint water crisis
High levels of lead aren’t unique to Flint.
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Geoengineering simulation lets us play with the future
See what temperatures could look like 50 years from now if we start reflecting sunlight.
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These bacterial communities are heating up the desert
"Biocrusts" make their own sunscreen, absorbing sunlight and increasing soil surface temperatures.
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We’ve finally figured out how climate change will benefit future generations
We're saving our descendants from an ice age! There’s just one small problem with our logic.