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Is Industrial Pollution Causing Natural Disasters?
Particles in polluted air seed clouds and influence the temperatures of oceans, which could stir up severe weather phenomena.
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Carbon Dioxide Linked to End of Last Ice Age
The circumstances that ended the last ice age, somewhere between 19,000 and 10,000 years ago, have been unclear. In...
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Global Warming Started More Than 100 Years Ago
It’s widely believed that global warming began in the 1970s, but new ocean temperature readings show that the Earth...
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Human Engineering Could Fight Climate Change
So far, conventional solutions to global warming — new government policies and changes in individual behavior — haven’t delivered....
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Scientists Look to the (Diminishing) Ice to Explain ‘Weather Weirding’
Lurching from one weather extreme to another seems to have become routine across the Northern Hemisphere. Parts of the...
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Most Cities Unprepared for Coming Population Boom
The world’s cities are mushrooming at the rate of around 1 million people a week as the planet’s population...
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Farming Needs ‘Climate-Smart’ Change
Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately...
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Link Builds Between Weather Extremes and Global Warming
Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by manmade global warming, a...
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Big History for the Era of Climate Change
Lack of understanding of environmental issues is an education problem and requires an education solution. So do we need...
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MIT: U.S. Has Plenty of Room for Carbon Storage
While plenty of question marks still hang over the prospect of carbon capture and storage, MIT believes it’s ruled...