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Climate activists need to take their victories where they can. There was little success to celebrate at the U.N. climate summit in Doha, Qatar, which concluded over the weekend. Delegates agreed to extend the expiring Kyoto …
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All you need to know about why we can’t get a global climate deal.
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Carbon emissions keep rising and the world keeps getting hotter, but there’s little progress at the U.N. climate summit in Doha. If you want hope on climate change, though, look West—to California
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When people have personal experience with climate change, they tend to become believers—unless they were already skeptics. Will extreme weather events like Sandy be enough to change the equation on climate change belief?
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The rate of polar ice-sheet melting is key to calculating how fast sea levels are rising. Now, scientists have a new analysis of polar ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica—and the numbers aren’t good for the planet.
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This year’s storms in video format
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The U.N. climate summit is beginning in Middle Eastern city of Doha—but expectations are as low as they can be. Why can’t the world take the climate crisis seriously?
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Sierra Club President Michael Brune grew up in the Jersey shore town of Chadwick Beach—which took a direct hit from Superstorm Sandy. This is what he saw when he came home.
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A new report predicts that up to 1,200 new coal plants could be built around the world. Why that would be game over for the climate
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It’s so obvious we forget it: an extreme-weather event becomes a disaster only if it hits where people and their possessions are. Of the 19 tropical storms that were tracked during this summer’s Atlantic hurricane season, 10 …
