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Scientists use Thoreau’s journal notes to track climate change
By examining Thoreau's records of flowering dates, researchers found that Massachusetts temperatures have increased by 2.4 degrees C since the author's time.
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George Bush’s hometown is running out of water, thanks to climate change
The president whose State Department thanked Exxon executives for their "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy is watching the town in which he grew up squirm in the grip of Texas' epic, climate change-enhanced drought.
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Jose Canseco schools Twitter on climate change
Jose Canseco knows as much about global warming as I know about Jose Canseco, which is to say, not much. I’m told he’s “the total train wreck of baseball” and I’m willing to believe it, now that I’ve seen him take his Twitter followers to school on climate change. Are you ready for this? You’re not. […]
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How climate change is making the internet faster
This new line will speed up the connection between Europe and Asia by 30 percent, and will reduce the cable distance between those two cities from 15,000 miles to 10,000.
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Forest scientists pit trees against each other in fight for survival
In Europe, forest scientists are setting up a kind of Hunger Games for trees. The goal, the BBC reports, is to find out which trees will survive in the harsh world to come:
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And you thought that heat wave was bad?
Scientists decided to investigate the outer limits of humans' ability to tolerate hotter temperatures. Fans won't cut it in the future.
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Global warming could explode ‘compost bombs’ all over the planet
When the compost pile in your backyard revs up, it starts producing heat, as the microbes in it do their work breaking down organic matter. On a small scale, that’s great for your garden. On a grand scale, though, this same process can create a “compost bomb” — a burst of carbon into the atmosphere. […]
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
We have entered what a growing number of earth scientists are calling the "Anthropocene," a geological era characterized by the influence of a single species.
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Climate scientists: It’s basically too late to stop warming
If you like cool weather and not having to club your neighbors as you battle for scarce resources, now's the time to move to Canada, because the story of the 21st century is almost written.
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‘Point Nemo’ is the farthest you can get from land without being in outer space
The Pacific Ocean’s Pole of Inaccessibility, aka Point Nemo, is 1,670 miles from the nearest land. It’s the furthest you can get from terrestrial lifeforms without launching yourself into space.
