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Finally, an artificial nose for protecting the important things from pollution: Disney art
The sensor was designed to detect and monitor low-level pollutants threatening to degrade our most prized national treasure.
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Surprise! Pumping water onto Antarctica to prevent sea level rise is a bad idea
But these scientists worked out the details just to be sure.
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Humans have been causing record-breaking heat since 1937
Computer simulations show that a series of extreme heat events dating back to the '30s probably wouldn't have happened without our influence.
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A frightening record: Carbon dioxide levels show biggest-annual jump
We're crashing climate records left and right.
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Greenland’s darkening snow is setting up a scary feedback loop
The ice sheet is entering its creepy clown phase.
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“Global warming is now in overdrive”: We just hit a terrible climate milestone
Despite the enormity of the moment, not everyone is paying attention.
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Algae blooms are nature’s angsty teenagers
Complicated, confusing, and crucial to our future.
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Mass extinction threatens the world’s pollinators — and its crops
A new UN-sponsored study suggests that 40 percent of invertebrate pollinators could go extinct.
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Important research confirms ocean acidification hurts corals
By making the water over part of a reef less acidic, researchers were able to measure how much faster coral can grow without CO2 pollution.
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Urban soil emits a surprising amount of CO2
In some cases, up to 72 percent as much CO2 as fossil fuels burned within a city.
