Caribbean
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For Caribbean nations, climate change means shrinking populations
Extreme weather is driving islanders from their homes -- but starting a new life could be as hard as sticking it out.
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Caribbean leaders beg Trump to act on climate change
As warming temperatures strengthen hurricanes, Caribbean states plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal.
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Puerto Ricans are living climate change right now. Here’s how they describe it.
Island dwellers -- and their loved ones stateside -- detail the situation on the ground, one week after Maria.
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Harvey, Irma, Maria: This is the hurricane season scientists expected … and feared
Scientists expect more Cat 5 storms in a warmer world -- which 2017 may already be.
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Florida’s best defense against natural disasters is nature
The key to fighting hurricanes? Just act natural.
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Hurricane Irma is a monster storm. Here’s where it might be headed.
The storm is “starting to give me that uncomfortable feeling in my gut,” one meteorologist wrote.
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Meet the parasitic crustacean named after Bob Marley
This little guy, a parasitic coral reef crustacean called a gnathiid, now has something in common with that one dog in that movie and a printer in the Glamour art department: He’s named after Bob Marley.
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Critical List: Northeast cap-and-trade program dropped emissions; World Environment Day
It’s World Environment Day — bring out your green-minded celebrities! In the Northeast, power plants’ carbon emissions fell an average 23 percent during the three years of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s cap-and-trade program (compared to the previous three years). By 2050, Latin American and Caribbean countries could be racking up $100 billion in damages […]
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Human excrement is killing all your coral
You know how when you go snorkeling, the guide tells you not to touch, breathe on, or even think about getting anywhere near the coral because it's really sensitive and also a great marine resource? Well, it's all true, but on a macro level, humans haven't been paying attention to those instructions and instead have been spraying the coral down with water contaminated with our waste. So basically we have been POOPING ON THE CORAL, which is kind of the opposite of not touching it. And human waste infects coral with something called white pox disease, which causes lesions and has led to a 90 percent decline in elkhorn coral, a key player in reef building.