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Mitt Romney: Reducing global-warming pollution is 'important'
Breaking with Tea Party Republicans, Mitt Romney said that "it's important for us to reduce our emissions" that cause climate change.
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The ‘hellish’ 7.2F warmer World of Tomorrow
Humanity is pumping out record amounts of greenhouse gases, and people are probably in more of a lather about the American Idol results than the fact that we’re well on […]
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Starry-eyed U.N. chief says we need to limit climate change to 2.7F of warming, not 3.6F
This week in the annals of wishful thinking, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change declared that the world's nations — you know, the ones with […]
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Carbon President: Why does Obama keep OK’ing big fossil-fuel projects?
The future’s looking hot.Photo: The White HouseThis essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed […]
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MyConservationPark is a Facebook game that’s actually good for something
MyConservationPark is a Farmville-style Facebook game that lets you administer a nature preserve, juggling animals, plants, structures, and people to protect the habitat of endangered wildlife. But this isn't just […]
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The frogfish is the world’s most efficient invasivore
It's still hot to be an invasivore, chowing down on invasive species to help balance the ecosystem. Cleveland even had a food festival showcasing ways to prepare the delicious-sounding invasive […]
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Climate change will cause Finding Nemo to lose hearing, die
Would Finding Nemo's Nemo have found his dad if he couldn't hear? Probably not! Which is why it's so sad that all of the Nemos out in the ocean (technically, […]
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Megacity mayors leading the fight for sustainable survival at the C40 summit
The megacity of Sao Paulo, Brazil.Photo: Luiz Henrique Varga AssuncaoCross-posted from ThinkProgress. Leaders of the world’s megacities are meeting in Sao Paulo this week for a major climate summit, the […]
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Only 15 U.S. states even have a plan to deal with ‘new normal’ extreme weather
Climate change has arrived, says Newsweek science correspondent Sharon Begley, and the good ol' U.S. of A. has more or less been caught with its pants down, preparations-wise. Only 15 […]
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New data show how warming leads to wider variation in global weather
Right on the heels of America's spring of extreme weather, scientists at the Columbia Earth Institute have unveiled a package of historical data that shows greater variation in weather when […]
