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Doomsday in Antarctica just got postponed a little
If we act on climate change now, there's a chance we can avoid total collapse of massive Antarctic glaciers this century.
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Antarctic sea ice is ‘astonishingly’ low this melt season
The annual ice-free season began at the Ross Ice Shelf on New Year’s Day, the earliest time in history.
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Meet the Press just modeled what it looks like to take climate change seriously
On Sunday, the show did what no other weekend news program had ever done before: They discussed climate change for a full hour.
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As snow becomes scarce, scientists are making their own
Though controlling the weather may seem like the stuff of science fiction, the technology has been around for decades.
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It’s (nearly) official: 2018 was the 4th warmest year in recorded history
The five warmest years have happened within the past five years.
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Elon Musk’s tunnel vision totally misses the point
If the point of Musk’s overly complex system is to move actual people, not cars, this is a very bad idea.
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Someone just paid $25,000 to name a worm-like amphibian after Donald Trump
The species’ tendency to bury its head in the sand drew parallels to Trump’s persistent denial of climate change.
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Hurricane Maria cut the height of Puerto Rico’s forests by a third
The storm caused 60 years worth of natural tree-falls in just a day.
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4 ways the melting Arctic is wreaking havoc near you
“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.”
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Welcome to the Eocene, where ice sheets turn into swamps
“The only thing that comes to mind is a meteorite impact.”