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Not to be outdone by climate change, God to end world today
You don't have to be religious to see that things are getting pretty dark around here.
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Good news: 15,000 crocodiles escaped certain death! Bad news: 15,000 crocodiles are on the loose!
A few thousand of the crocs have been recaptured, leaving only maybe 13,000 running around loose.
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287 coastal energy facilities at risk from sea-level rise
Sea levels are rising, which means that there’s a greater risk of floods that reach well over the high tide mark. By 2030, the risk that coastal floods will go four feet or more over high tide will have doubled, Climate Central reports. And in that zone lie 287 energy facilities — power plants, natural […]
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Critical List: Oil sands carbon footprint revised upwards; new frog discovered in NYC
Oil sands have an even higher carbon footprint than previously thought: No one was counting carbon released when the drilling operations destroy peatlands. In 2011, solar installers put in twice as many solar panels as they did in 2010. The transportation bill now includes a natural gas amendment that fulfills energy magnate T. Boone Pickens’ […]
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Why does agriculture keep getting a climate pass?
An international group of scientists have taken to the pages of Science magazine to ask climate negotiators to stop ignoring agriculture.