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Coffee in crisis: the bitter end of our favourite drink?
Drought, flooding, disease - climate change is already threatening the source of our caffeine fix. Are we facing the end of coffee as we know it, asks David Robson.
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The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory. London reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit during the hottest July day ever recorded in the U.K.
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Climate change already rearing its ugly head in Northwest
Unless emissions are cut, there sea levels could rise at a drastically higher rate than originally predicted.
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Animated map illustrates 'striking' retreat of Arctic ice sheet
National Geographic has produced an animated gif showing the "striking" retreat of Arctic ice that has occured over the last few years.
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UK butterfly species at risk of extinction due to climate change, says study
Severe droughts caused by global warming could have a far greater impact on some UK species of butterfly than previously thought
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Corn is worse than you thought
A new study finds that the Corn Belt's emissions of a potent greenhouse gas are way underestimated.
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Los Angeles just found an awesome way to fight the drought. It involves balls. Here is a video.
#shadeballs
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Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year
2015 is likely to crush the previous record -- 2014 -- probably by a wide margin. We appear to be in the midst of the long-awaited jump in global temperatures.
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Beat the drought by hoarding water—if it ever rains again
Here's what you need to know about adding rainwater catchment to your bucket list.
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How global warming has stopped the natural cooling of the oceans
Man-made global warming has triggered a reversal of the natural ocean cooling that has occurred over the past 1,800 years, a study has found.
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Life in a disappearing country
It's one of the clearest injustices of climate change: The Marshall Islands likely won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees.
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The Climate Change ‘Bully’ in California’s Drought
How much of California's drought is due to climate change? New research has an answer: up to 27 percent. It also has another important number: climate change has made the odds of severe droughts like this one twice as likely.
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Two degrees or four? It's a personal choice for survival in the near future
Four degrees. It doesn't sound like a lot. Four degrees is the difference between a spring day and early summer, right? It's almost nothing. Wrong. Four degrees, as an earth-surface average, is the difference between a full-on ice age like the one at the end of the Pleistocene and now.
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Climate Change Is Boring - The Equation
Have you heard the one about the scientist who wants to make climate change more relatable through humor?
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The drought is making California sink—and climate change is making the drought worse
So say two new studies.
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Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?
How can a barely perceptible rise in air temperature lead to more extreme weather? This animated video illustrates how an average temperature rise of .8 degrees Celsius at the Earth’s surface means that the world’s oceans have absorbed additional heat equivalent to having an atomic bomb explode every second of every day for the last 100 years. Warming water equals more evaporation, which means more water vapor in the air. The folks at MinuteEarth show how “basic physics” explains more destructiv
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California's Drought Will Cost The State $2.74 Billion This Year
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California's ongoing drought will cost the economy in the most populous U.S. state an estimated $2.74 billion in 2015 and lead to the loss of 10,000 seasonal farm jobs, despite
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Rapid Climate Change Threatens Survival of World's Boreal Forests (and us with them)
You know all those trees burning in the Northwestern United States and Canada? Those are just a small part of the great boreal forests, a/k/a the taiga in Russia, that cover as much as thirty ...
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Bushfires, heatwaves and early deaths: the climate is changing before our eyes | Tim Flannery
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Tim Flannery argues that recent events in Australia and around the world show how global warming is much more than a debate about scientific projections
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We’re about to lose four Texases worth of tropical rainforest—and it’s entirely preventable
Saving them would be one of the cheapest ways to prevent global warming.
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