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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.
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This honeybee dismembers its enemies and leaves them for dead
When blood-sucking varroa mites infested their colony, the bees fought back.
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Can we make the Anthropocene official yet?
Here's what future cyborgs might find when they look back at what early Anthropocene dwellers (that's us) left behind.
