carbon dioxide
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Hate to sound like a broken record, but we just set a scary new CO2 record
The amount of carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere reached a new monthly high: April’s average was 413.52 parts per million.
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Climate change will have its Scopes Monkey Trial this week
A court pits Big Oil against California and decades of denial against climate science.
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Trump halted a study of coal’s health effects in Appalachia
This is bad news for people living near mountaintop coal removal sites.
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If Trump can’t handle the Paris accord, he’ll hate this bold idea
Experts offer an audacious three-year plan to halt climate change in its tracks.
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Watch our world spiral past a terrifying climate milestone
We've blown past 400 ppm.
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Trees are fed up with our carbon, refuse to grow faster
A new study shows that extra CO2 in the atmosphere isn't speeding up rainforest tree growth. Uh oh?
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Critical List: Carbon dioxide hits 400 ppm in the Arctic; bedbugs don’t like boozy blood
Carbon dioxide levels in the Arctic have reached 400 parts per million (ppm). Once upon a time, they were 275 ppm. 350 ppm is considered a decent level to aim for these days. Peanut butter and deli meats have traces of flame retardant in them. Fishing fleets don’t care what regulators say — they’ll fish […]
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Critical List: Record carbon dioxide emissions in 2011; eating dirt is normal
2011 saw a record high in carbon dioxide emissions, with China’s contribution growing the most. Climate change is a boon for one species, at least: The brown argus butterfly, previously rare, has been staking out more turf for itself as the areas north of its range become warmer and more hospitable. With the chair of […]
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G8 summit might have actually done something about climate change
There’s a bit of news from the G8 summit that might have escaped notice: International leaders agreed to take collective action to decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. And pigs do fly. The agreement (which, unlike flying pigs, is real — we promise) could be “the biggest step in years in tackling climate change,” as The Telegraph’s Geoffrey […]