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Study Finds Methane Leaks Negate Benefits of Natural Gas as a Fuel for Vehicles
The sign is ubiquitous on city buses around the country: “This bus runs on clean burning natural gas.” But a surprising new report, to be published Friday in the journal Science, concludes that switching buses and trucks from traditional diesel fuel to natural gas could actually harm the planet’s climate.
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Warm U.S. West balanced cold U.S. East to create average January
Overall, the average temperature for January 2014 in the U.S. was 30.3 degrees, only one-tenth of a degree below normal for the month.
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Hershey's Is Hiring a Chocolate Futurist
Adapting to climate change, one candy bar at a time
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Climate Change Pushing Tropical Birds Up the Mountain…and Off
Many tropical mountain birds are shifting their ranges upslope to escape warming temperatures that disrupt their way of life, according to research by a husband-and-wife team from the Cornell Lab
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Why Farmers Can Prevent Global Warming Just As Well As Vegetarians
We Americans are heavy consumers of meat, and we're increasingly reminded that eating less of it will shrink our carbon footprint. Growing the crops to feed all those animals releases lots of greenhouse gases. But a new study argues that eating less meat isn't a very practical climate-protection recipe for developing countries, where demand for meat is rising most quickly.
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Pine smell 'limits' climate change
New research suggests a strong link between the powerful smell of pine trees and climate change.
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Nowhere to hide from extreme weather
Wherever you go, you will have weather to complain about
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Flood losses to 'increase four fold'
According to the most accurate model yet developed, flood damage losses across Europe are expected to increase four fold by 2050.
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Giant virus revived from ancient permafrost
A previously unknown giant virus has been revived from 30,000-year-old permafrost, suggesting another possible threat from climate change.
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Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty 'will be lost to sea level rise'
Nearly one-fifth of world cultural heritage sites would be affected by global warming of a further 3C, scientists warn...
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Great Barrier Reef Faces 'Irreversible' Damage
The Great Barrier Reef may be in serious trouble. Unless immediate action is taken, the famous coral reef system will be unable to recover from the "irreversible" damage that climate change will wreak on it by 2030, a new report out of ...
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Paris Offers Free Public Transportation This Weekend to Reduce Smog
Authorities in Paris have decided to take a rare step of making public transportation free for three days to reduce smog caused by unusually warm weather.
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Airborne Iron May Have Helped Cause Past Ice Ages
It seems straightforward: Iron-rich dust floating on the wind falls into the sea, where it nourishes organisms that suck carbon dioxide from the air. Over time, so much of this greenhouse gas disappears from the atmosphere that the planet begins to cool. Scientists have proposed that such a process contributed to past ice ages, but they haven’t had strong evidence—until now.
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We Need Three Planets to Keep the Human Race Alive, NASA Scientist Says
It’s no secret that uncurbed climate change and population growth are going to (and already have) put stress on the planet. But the situation is getting so bad that one prominent NASA scientist says we have to start thinking about terraforming Mars and that, in order for the human race to survive at current levels, we will eventually “need at least three planets.”
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Warmer Springs Boost Long-Tailed Tit survival
The UK's population of these little birds has more than doubled in the last forty years.
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U.N. blames warming earth for extreme weather in 2013
Warming is caused by people, World Meteorological Organization said in its yearly report.
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WHO: Air pollution top environmental health risk
Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year and is now the single biggest environmental health risk, with more than half the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) published Tuesday.
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2013 sixth warmest year on record
Thirteen of the fourteen warmest years on record have all occurred in the 21st century, and each of the last three decades has been warmer than the previous one, culminating with 2001-2010 as the warmest decade on record.
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The Great Barrier Reef: an obituary
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is gathering in Yokohama, Japan, to explore the array of impacts climate change is having on the natural world. For one of Earth's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, the situation is stark – emissions must be cut radically, and quickly, if the ecosystem is to survive.
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Bill Nye, the Climate Guy
A kids' TV star is liberals' most effective spokesman against right-wing science skeptics
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