Climate Science
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The atmosphere hit 400 ppm of CO2 earlier this year. Yes, that’s terrible
A new report from the World Meteorological Organization is full of bad news.
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How California could get smarter about droughts and flooding
Instead of flooding where it's not useful, California's winter deluges could be banked in the ground, helping farmers and revitalizing streams.
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Can something called the cleanweb help fight climate change?
These techies want to use the internet in the fight climate change, right alongside solar panels and urban farms.
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Indonesia’s huge fires might be the worst climate change crisis on Earth right now
The deforestation nightmare in Indonesia is choking thousands and making climate change worse.
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Bacon causes cancer. Should you panic?
Too often, headlines about different cancer-causing categories end up being more confusing than helpful.
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Things are complicated between Arctic sea ice and air pollution
Some emissions are warming it up. Others are cooling it down.
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These species survived the last ice age but couldn’t survive people
Scientists found 22 species on an island in the Bahamas that made it through rising seas and climate change, but not humans.
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Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?
To grow enough food for everyone, we're going to have to borrow the best ideas from all sides of the agricultural debate.
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Remember the Amazon? It’s more dead than you thought
The dying rainforest could be contributing to climate change, which is just killing more trees. This is a problem.
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Goodbye, oceans! Study finds ecosystems headed toward a major collapse
A new mega-study says ocean life will be unable to recover from climate change