El Nino
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7 charts that make it clear climate change is already here
NOAA's State of the Climate report shows us breaking records left and right.
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Australia’s mangrove die-off was the worst one ever
Well, there go 400 miles of delicate coastal habitat.
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What’s headed our way this hurricane season? Let us explain.
Climate change is linked to less predictable and more severe storms -- but it's still complicated.
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Coral reefs are looking pretty hot right now
Bleaching is back in a big way, and we're not just talking about Justin Bieber.
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Letter from Texas: Floods didn’t drown the drought
Even before the rubble from the floods has had time to settle, the water’s effect on the drought has already started to recede.
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A huge, toxic algae bloom is basically eating the West Coast alive
That toxic algae bloom off the West Coast is bigger and badder than we thought -- and its messing with your seafood.
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Your plane’s ETA is wrong, and it’s the climate’s fault
The climate is messing with your flight is messing with the climate.
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From sea lions to penguin chicks, adorable animals are dying in droves
"Mass mortality events" are already a thing, and climate change is only going to make them worse. Grab some tissues.
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Do climate shifts spark wars?
A study published a little while back in Nature found an association between shifts in climate (in this case, shifts associated with El Niño) and international conflict. The researchers' hypothesis was that El Niño was messing with people's psyches and also creating economic shocks by tweaking food prices, dredging up storms, and fostering disease. These effects tend to make people a little testy and, boom!, conflict.
But, as Sarah Zielinski writes at Smithsonian, it's too simple to say that climate change will cause war: