A WORLD AT WAR...
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We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII...
Read moreWHO OWNS THE WIND? WE DO, WYOMING SAYS, AND IT'S TAXING THOSE WHO USE IT...
Wind turbines spin at the Foote Creek Rim site in Carbon County, Wyo. (Michael Smith / Getty Images)
Who owns the wind???
Read more'THE BLOB': HOW MARINE HEATWAVES ARE CAUSING UNPRECEDENTED CLIMATE CHAOS...
The Pacific coast has witnessed record numbers of dead Cassin’s auklets this winter. Photograph: D. Derickson/COASST
Wide-scale disruption from warming oceans is increasing, but they could change our understanding of the climate...
Read moreDIVIDED AMERICA: GLOBAL WARMING POLARIZES MORE THAN ABORTION...
This image provided by the National Weather Service shows temperatures in the continental United States during a heat wave on Friday, July 22, 2016. The weather service outlook for the following three months shows above normal temperatures across the country. (National Weather Service via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tempers are rising in America, along with the temperatures...
Read moreOP-ED: RISING SEAS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR POLITICAL PARTY!
Tim Dominick MCT
Summer in North Carolina has always been hot. And while weather will fluctuate for many reasons, no reasonable doubt remains that our dependence on fossil fuels is to blame for the relentless rise of global temperatures we are witnessing...
Read moreAN EPIC MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE COULD BE GLOBAL WARMING’S HELLISH CURTAIN-RAISER...
Add your reaction ShareTHE BLOB THAT COOKED THE PACIFIC...
Thousands of California sea lions, such as this one on rocks near Canada’s Vancouver Island, died in 2014 and 2015. Many starved as they struggled to find food in an unusually warm eastern Pacific. Credit:
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RISING TEMPERATURES STUNT TREE GROWTH...
Douglas firs. Credit: MARSHAL HEDIN Flickr
Drier soil plus drier air causes Douglas firs to shut down...
Read moreTHIS IS NO ORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN THE EASTERN U.S., AS HUMIDITY REACHES EXTREME LEVELS...
A boy plays in a fountain in Washington, D.C. during a heat wave. Image: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
From New Orleans to Portland, Maine, the heat and humidity has hit oppressive levels for the second long stretch this summer. In New York City, for example, entire blocks smell like hot garbage, and the air feels like a wet blanket, with heat indices approaching 110 degrees Fahrenheit...
Read moreBOOK REVIEW: CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE, WITH CARTOONS...
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"The Madhouse Effect" explains climate science and politics in plain English...
Read moreFIVE DEAD, TENS OF THOUSANDS FLEE. PHILIPPINE FLOODS...
Residents wade through a flooded street in San Mateo, Rizal province on August 13 (AFP Photo/Noel Celis)
Five people have been killed in the Philippines and tens of thousands have fled from floods caused by days of unrelenting rain, rescuers said Sunday...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE THIS WEEK: THE MELTING THIRD POLE, POLITICS' CLIMATE CLASH, AND MORE!
Saving BUB, beautiful unique biodiversity, like this painted bunting that lives in southern US woods, is another reason to conserve carbon storing forests. Credit B. Hoag
Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded...
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Read moreOREGON FINDS SWITCHING FROM COAL TO RENEWABLE ENERGY IS A BARGAIN...
A solar array installed at a winery near McMinnville, Oregon. (Photo: George Rose/Getty Images)
Replacing coal-fired electricity with ever-cheaper wind and solar power will raise utility rates just 0.1 percent by 2030...
Read moreSOCAL HIT WITH WORST SMOG IN YEARS AS HOT, STAGNANT WEATHER BRINGS SURGE IN HOSPITAL VISITS...
Smog descends on downtown Los Angeles during a November afternoon in 2015. (Los Angeles Times)
Southern California is experiencing its worst smog in years this summer as heat and stagnant weather increase the number of bad air days and drive up ozone pollution to levels not seen since 2009...
Read moreWHY IT’S HOTTER NIGHTS—MORE THAN HOTTER DAYS—THAT MAKE HEAT WAVES DANGEROUS...
Add your reaction ShareWAR ON CLIMATE TERROR (II): FLEEING DISASTERS, ESCAPING DROUGHT, MIGRATING...
Young, new arrivals from Sudan’s Darfur region endure a sandstorm in the border town of Bamina, eastern Chad. Rainfall in this region has been in decline since 1950. This, coupled with deforestation, has had a devastating effect on the environment. Credit: ©UNHCR/H.Caux
- “No one can deny the terrible similarities between those running from the threat of guns and those fleeing creeping desertification, water shortages, floods and hurricanes.”Read more
THIS ISLAND IN RUSSIA'S ARCTIC IS VANISHING INTO THE SEA...
As the sea ice around Vize Island disappears, and the island's permafrost melts, its coastline has almost eroded out from under this Soviet-era weather station. (Photo: Ivan Mizin/WWF Russia)
Climate change is altering the map as sea ice and permafrost disappear, leaving Arctic coastlines vulnerable...
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