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Top U.S. science official: ‘Climate change is having consequences in real time’
Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, said Americans are connecting the dots between climate change and recent severe weather. When will political leaders make the issue a priority?
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Warming waters pose a huge threat to the world’s coral
Coral reefs will likely be devastated by climate change-related ocean warming, according to a new study. But the good news is that they've demonstrated their resiliency in the past.
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South Korea may start hunting whales again, for ‘science’
As part of the argument the nation makes for doing its scientific research: "whale meat is still part of a culinary tradition". Same reason we studied the Higgs boson.
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Cute bushy-tailed fossil suggests most dinosaurs had feathers
The dinosaur shown in this new fossil, which is so great it almost looks fake, is called Sciurumimus albersdoerferi — Sciurumimus means “squirrel mimic.” That’s undoubtedly because of its lush, bushy tail, […]
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How’s the weather, America? July 5, 2012 edition
Fires, heat waves, impaired fishing. Same old, same old.
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Antarctic moss eats 8,000-year-old penguin poop
Earlier this year, a slightly horrifying factoid made its way around the internet: Penguins poop so much that piles of their poop can be seen from space. But take heart, […]
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Staggering video of a family returning to their destroyed home after Colorado fires
“I’m convinced that this planet is warming and that this is part of the result of that,” says Colorado wildfire victim Hani Ahmad while looking at the ruins of his […]
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What can our protected places teach us about saving the Arctic?
Protecting the Arctic is one of the great environmental challenges of our age. What lessons can we learn from earlier generations who won protection for the national parks we enjoy today?
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Radiohead, Jude Law, and Greenpeace make a sad, sad polar bear video
Here are so many things that we like, all in one place.
