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The aliens have landed!
A peek into one cubic foot of the San Francisco Bay reveals all manner of creepy crawlies -- and offers a window into our world's astonishing biodiversity.
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Critical List: 24 hours later, climate change still a reality; EPA will miss GHG deadline
Al Gore said some stuff.
Texans return to their burnt-out homes. If these droughts keep up, it won’t be too long before the state gets on board with Gore.
The EPA won't make a deadline for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Here's what an imaginary, perfectly green Obama would do on environmental issues. Democrats should run this guy in 2012! -
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GOP says ban on invasive snakes is 'job killer'
The Obama administration wants to strangle job growth in America like some kind of giant, prosperity-choking python, mostly by banning the importation of said pythons, says a new GOP report.
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New atlas shows climate change effects — including a brand-new island
The new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World includes an island that's only existed since 2006. Uunartoq Qeqertaq -- "Warming Island" -- surfaced when the Greenland ice cover retreated because of global warming. It's only one of the climate change side effects that have now been deemed permanent enough for inclusion in the atlas.
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Hey, we found a new dolphin species!
We all know the Earth still has more and stranger species than we've discovered, or at least it will until we clear-cut and climate-bomb them right into extinction. But you usually figure these fragile exotic lifeforms are hanging out in caves under Madagascar, or somewhere else that's tough to get to. Turns out, though, that at least some of them have been chiling near Melbourne, Australia, where researchers have discovered a new species of dolphin just basically right under their noses.
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Critical List: Climate change kills jobs; making a bridge out of live trees
Climate change kills jobs: A new study says California's economy could take a hit in the hundreds of millions of dollars as climate change takes it toll. So really, any program that fights climate change should be considered a job-saving program.
Job creation may be a different story. Loan guarantees for green energy projects aren't creating as many jobs as the Obama administration promised.
Green groups in Texas are growing, which means staffing up. (Now green is good for jobs again!) -
Al Gore on Colbert, chatting about climate reality and Rick Perry [VIDEO]
On The Colbert Report last night, Al Gore talked about his "24 Hours of Reality" event and came dangerously close to endorsing Rick Perry for president.
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Fiddling while his state burns isn't just a metaphor for Perry, says Thomas Friedman
Oh look -- America's most-read liberal just devoted an entire column to climate change, or should we say climate weirding. It's nice to see the talking points we feed you, our climate hawk minions, repeated so succinctly in a national forum. There were even a few new ones we hadn't thought of yet:
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Indigenous Alaskans have no doubt the climate is changing
The U.S. Geological Survey had a novel idea about how to better understand climate change and its impacts: Ask the people most likely to be experiencing it. These researchers asked a group of people from Alaska's indigenous communities what their observations of climate change had been. Their basic response: Everything's all messed up.
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’24 Hours of Reality,’ happening now [VIDEO]
Al Gore's big "climate reality" event kicks off at 7 p.m. Central time today in Mexico City and then moves around the world. Watch the live stream here.
