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What ‘left’ and ‘right’ really mean on climate change (hint: nothing)
There is no coherent left vs. right on climate, at least not in terms of ideology.
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Giant prehistoric penguins!
Scientists have spent the past 35 years reconstructing a giant penguin fossil from New Zealand, and here’s the first look at their results. Kairuku (Maori for “diver who returns with food”) lived about 25 million years ago, and it looks a little different from modern penguins. For starters, it’s more than 4 feet tall.
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Climate change is screwing up bird migration
According to UNC Chapel Hill researchers who just crunched 10 years’ worth of data, climate change is throwing bird migration patterns just a tiny bit off-kilter — and that small disruption could have major effects on the health of bird populations.
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Climate change could make Mt. Everest impossible to climb
If you’ve got “summit Everest” on your bucket list, better get started now. Apa Sherpa (aka “Super Sherpa”), who’s summited Mt. Everest 21 times, tells Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the trip up the mountain is getting increasingly dangerous as climate change sets in. As Himalayan glaciers melt, bare rock — slippery, treacherous, more prone to […]
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Flashback: Gingrich opposed ANWR drilling, pushed for efficiency instead
Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is dead in the water, so it's important for those of us who love mocking him to act quickly.
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Time for environmental funders to stop neglecting the grassroots
The top-down, elite-focused strategy that has come to dominate the environmental movement is not working. The philanthropic community needs to get serious about funding the grassroots.
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The best green action plan we’ve ever seen
It is possible that we are suckers for this North Face campaign because it instructs participants to read Grist every day. But even before we noticed that part, we thought it was one of the best templates for taking green action we’ve come across. The Protect Our Winters (POW) pledge has seven ways to fight […]
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U.S. gangs up with Saudi Arabia to crush European climate initiative
All the world's countries love to talk piously about the need to address climate change. What happens if someone goes beyond talk to action? If the E.U.'s aviation program is any indication, it ain't pretty.
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Chihuahua-size horses caused by climate change
After they first appeared in the fossil record, horses got smaller as a result of a warming planet, says a study just published in Science. Thing is, proto-horses weren't that big to begin with.
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The sky is falling! (No, really.)
This is not a joke: The sky is falling. Or technically, the height of clouds, the average of which decreased about 1 percent from 2000 to 2010. Researchers at the University of Auckland, who collected the data, attributed the change to a drop in the number of clouds formed at high altitudes.
