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Knock knock. Who’s there? LANDSPOUT
I’ve learned about so many new kinds of extreme weather in the last year or so — thanks, global warming! First there were haboobs, then derechos, and now this thing, […]
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Carbon causes extreme weather; in other news: Smoking causes cancer
We have no problem saying "smoking causes cancer." It's time to start being just as frank when talking about carbon pollution's negative effects.
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Heat waves lead to a rise at nudist resorts
This article is so barely even news and so obviously our attempt to get you to click that you just know there's something good inside.
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Conservative think tank hosts discussion on cap-and-trade. Is it Friday the 13th?
It is! But the American Enterprise Institute-led discussion around an increase in the cost of carbon pollution happened earlier this week.
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Will the farm bill prop up doomed crops in this extreme climate?
If the House Agriculture Committee has its way, the farm bill will continue to subsidize monocrops that don't have a chance in this increasingly inhospitable climate.
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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 […]
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Texas judge rules that the atmosphere is protected under the public trust doctrine
The victory by a group of children who sued for climate action is significant, though the long-term impacts are uncertain.
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Strange things are afoot in the Arctic Circle
A research team recently discovered previously unknown life under young Arctic sea ice. Could it have anything to do with climate change?
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Photos of train tracks and airplane runways melting in the heat
Last weekend’s heat played havoc with transportation in the D.C. area, but at least we got some cool photos out of the chaos. The heat-buckled highway was just a heat-buckled […]
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Gambling advice: Don’t bet that the warm weather is just a fluke
The odds that we just had the warmest 13 months in American history by chance? 1 in 1.5 million.
