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Increasing CO2 in air is making deserts greener
Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide fertilization effect has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.
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Tropical Storm Andrea drenches Florida's west coast
High winds and soaking rain started to fall on Florida as Tropical Storm Andrea neared the swampy Big Bend on Thursday.The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea was already whipping up gusts as high as 48 mph in St. Petersburg, the National Hurricane Center reported. But forecasters said Andrea won't spend enough time over the Gulf of Mexico to develop into a hurricane before it makes a projected landfall in the crook of the state's west coast.
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14 Things You Really Don't Want To Know About Your Groceries
Apologies in advance.
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Sean Parker’s $10 million destruction of a park epitomizes what’s wrong with Silicon Valley
Hey, if a billionaire couple wants to spend $10 million on their wedding, it’s neither all that surprising nor interesting, as far as I’m concerned. So, when news and statistics started to trickle out about Sean Parker’s wedding here in California—namely that it’d cost millions of dollars to create Kardashian-level over-the-topness—I was ready to chalk it up to the standard excesses of crazy rich people.
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Everything That's Causing Global Warming, In One Handy Graph
We're frying the planet; everyone but the end times rapturists and Republicans knows that much by now. We know we're spewing out so much carbon dioxide and methane that we've drastically amplified the greenhouse effect, and that we're not slowing down. We know global warming.
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How do you feed 9 billion people?
An international team of scientists has developed crop models to better forecast food production to feed a growing population – projected to reach 9 billion by mid-century – in the face of climate change.
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Three years after BP oil spill, clean up efforts finally wrap up
Three years after the worst oil spill in US history, BP said Monday it has wrapped up “active” cleanup operations in three US states but continues to patrol a stretch of Louisiana.
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Chemical plant explodes in Louisiana
A Geismar, Louisiana, chemical plant exploded and caught fire Thursday, causing multiple injuries and forcing authorities to evacuate the area around the facility.
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Ivanhoe Reservoir Covered With 400,000 Black Plastic Balls
In 2007, the Department of Water Protection in Los Angeles detected high levels of bromate, a carcinogen that forms when bromide and chlorine react with sunlight, in Los Angeles’s Ivanhoe Reservoir. Bromide is naturally present in groundwater and chlorine is used to kill bacteria, but sunlight is the final ingredient in the potentially harmful mix.
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Rich Chinese Export Pollution to Poorer Regions
Limiting pollution in China's richer provinces has shifted polluting facilities to less prosperous areas with fewer rules.
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The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming
The most egregious myths, misconceptions and flat-out lies about the future of the planet
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Polluting to death: China introduces execution for environmental offenders
China has introduced “harsher punishments” for breaking the nation’s environmental protection laws: reckless violators of pollution standards in the world’s biggest and fastest-growing economy now face execution.
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Juniper tree disease threatens Gin & Tonic drinkers around the world
The latest deadly tree fungus threatens your gin and tonic by killing off juniper berries.
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Up in the sky, look: It's Supermoon!
The heavens will deliver a rare treat to moonstruck romantics and werewolves Sunday who rise before the sun.
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UK's ancient forests could spread again thanks to plan to clone 'super-trees'
Genetic twins of woodland survivors would be given away under plan to preserve oaks, yews and firs that have weathered ages.
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9 Popular Cities Losing War with Rising Seas
The world’s coastal cities are some of the most beautiful, culturally vibrant and heavily populated urban areas. They are also some of the most popular places for summer vacations. However, rising sea levels threaten these areas.
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Pyramid in Peru torn down by developers
Real estate developers using heavy machinery tore down a 20ft (6m) tall pyramid at one of Peru's oldest archaeological sites, cultural officials have said.
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Scientist warns capacity to grow food is plateauing in many parts of the world
Countries may not be able to increase food production because many staple crops are close to their physiological growing limits.
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IKEA uses a staggering 1% of the world's wood every year
Outraged as many may be, critics and their eco-conscience friends might pause before deciding to chain themselves to a forest of Scandinavian trees, the company has a sustainability plan for all this wood.
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Primeval forest discovered deep off Alabama coast
Buried more than 60 feet below the surface, perfectly preserved forest is estimated to be 50-80,000 years old
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