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A First: from space, NASA spots a single methane leak from Earth's atmosphere
“For the first time, an instrument onboard an orbiting spacecraft has measured the methane emissions from a single, specific leaking facility on Earth's surface,” NASA announced Tuesday. (more…)
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CO2 in Antarctica reaches 400 PPM for first time in 4 million years
Earth's most remote continent finally caught up with its more populated counterparts. “Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year...
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Bill Nye: What if all the ice melted on Earth?
It would not be cool. At all. (AsapSCIENCE)
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Earth's wilderness decimated
A new study shows that our planet has 10% less wilderness than in the 1990s. Via the CS Monitor: Ten percent of Earth's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s, according to a new study published...
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Royal Society's remarkable 2016 nature photo finalists
Tane Sinclair-Taylor's image of a clownfish and a bleached anemone is one of the many remarkable biological photographs chosen as finalists and winners in Royal Society Publishing's 2016 contest. (more…)
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Greenpeace NZ delivers a solar power petition -- with a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPR2RTq7xI The government of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand imposing an energy-company-backed tax on people who put solar panels on their homes. Greenpeace's petition in...
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Over 170 nations agree to cut global-warming chemical used in refrigerators...
A global agreement to cut a heat-trapping chemical used in air conditioning units and refrigerators was announced today, with participation from over 170 nations. “The deal could have a greater impact...
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Watch Before the Flood, an urgent call to arms about climate change
National Geographic released Before the Flood over the weekend, and it is a calm but clear-eyed overview of the scope of the environmental crisis facing our planet. It also looks at pragmatic steps we...
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The Earth and I – is climate change moving too fast for a new book on climate...
It is obviously unfair to dismiss the entire contents of a book for a single tin-eared statement, but the clunker that comes near the end of The Earth and I by Gaia-theory originator James Lovelock is...
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Open letter about climate change from scientists to Trump
More than 800 American energy and Earth science researchers have signed a letter to Donald Trump outlining six steps they're urging him to take to address human-caused climate change to protect...
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Man has lived alone in Colorado ghost town for 40 years
In 1972 billy barr (he spells it lowercase) was a Rutgers University environmental science student and did some research in Gothic, Colorado, a ghost town built around a silver mine. The native New...
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Trump's five most "anti-science" moves
Scientific American summarized five of Donald Trump's "major moves many see as hostile toward science." They are: • Trump’s pick for head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actively...
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Trump's first 4 days: a ban on disclosing scientific facts and felony charges...
It's only been a handful of days since Donald Trump took office, but we're already getting strong signals about the sort of administration he intends to run: workers at US government agencies have...
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Temperature in Oklahoma reaches 99 degrees in mid-February
A heat-wave hit Oklahoma, sending temperatures into the high 90s. Norman, Oklahoma was 99 degrees F (37 C) on February 11. From ThinkProgress: Many people may welcome a temperate day in February, but...
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Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts
Not since the Reagan era cold war with Russia has apocalyptic awareness been so forefront in the public’s mind. Disturbing incidents ranging from nuclear football Facebook selfies to alarming North...
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Tucker Carlson argues with Bill Nye about climate change
In this video, Tucker Carlson keeps saying Bill Nye is not a scientist, but a "popularizer," which Carlson seems to think means global warming is bogus. Best part is near the end when Nye picks up his...
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Yes, flights are getting more turbulent thanks to climate change
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reports that flying is going to get more and more turbulent, even at cruising altitudes, because of climate change: (more…)
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You can't consume your way out of global warming
When inventor and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Saul Griffith started reading papers about global warning that were written in 1974 (the same year he was born) he discovered that "all the problems...
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Poor Alabama county is a hotbed of "neglected tropical diseases"
The Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise worked with Houston's National School of Tropical Medicine to sample "soil and water...blood and faecal samples" from Alabama's Lowndes County, a poor rural...
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The arctic seed bank that was going to save us all is flooding
Strategically placed to survive any natural disaster, this winter's rains flooded the arctic seed bank. The bank wasn't destroyed, but it shows how fast things are a changing. The Guardian: It was...
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