Climate Change
Melting ice, rising seas, longer droughts, stronger storms, threatened habitats - climate change poses some of the greatest challenges of our time
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In posthumous message, Stephen Hawking warns "what will cripple the Earth"
Stephen Hawking writes humanity behaving with "reckless indifference to our future on planet Earth," according to report
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The hottest climate science in the world's coldest place
NASA's Operation IceBridge measures ice loss in Antarctica, and its effect on rising sea levels
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Climate change provided high octane fuel for Hurricane Michael
Sometimes connecting climate change to a specific weather event is difficult. With Hurricane Michael, it's not.
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Exxon to spend $1 million lobbying for carbon tax
It's the first time an oil company in the U.S. has put money behind its pro-climate words
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Global warming: How you can help the environment right now
A new report from the U.N. predicts that at the current warming rate, millions more people will die from extreme heat by the year 2040
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U.N. report about global warming warns of "life-or-death situation"
Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on Earth
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Florence the second-rainiest U.S. storm in 70 years, meteorologist says
Only Hurricane Harvey rained more over a 14,000 square-mile area during a four-day time period
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Florence crippled electricity and coal -- solar and wind were back the next day
Renewable energy advocates say it is less vulnerable to severe storms than traditional electric utilities
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Researchers mapping climate change through tree rings
Scientists are studying tree rings to see changes in climate over hundreds of years
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Tree rings aid study of climate change and weather conditions
Scientists are studying tree rings to learn about changes in climate over hundreds of years. BBC News reports on how the width of the rings can give clues to rainfall, temperature and even tsunamis.
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How climate change could be impacting hurricanes like Florence
Rising sea levels result in increased storm surges, and that's just one factor, explains meteorologist Jeff Berardelli
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N.C. law could increase damage from hurricanes like Florence
State lawmakers banned using recent climate science to plan for the consequences of rising sea levels
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UN says hunger is growing, climate change partly to blame
"This message today should frighten the world," said David Beasley, head of the World Food Program
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Climate change is coming for champagne grapes
Winegrowers are racing to pick their grapes earlier while scientists try to create strains that can resist hotter weather
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California lawmakers vote to abandon fossil-fuel electricity
The state would be the largest in the nation to commit to emissions-free electricity by 2045
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California issues dire warning on impact of climate change
A state report predicts California will see a significant increase in wildfires, hotter temperatures and eroding beaches. KCBS reporter Tina Patel has the story.
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Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change
Texas Gulf Coast project would shield petroleum industry, which is blamed for contributing to global warming and now wants safeguards against the consequences
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Rising ocean water temperatures increase risk of Pacific hurricanes
Last week, two hurricanes barreled through the Pacific, and there are new concerns that rising seawater temperatures could bring them closer to California
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After denying link, interior secretary says climate change impacts wildfires
Zinke, a Trump appointee, contradicted earlier statements where he has discounted the role of climate change in the fires
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Sea critters imperiled by major increase in "marine heat waves"
"This trend will only further accelerate with global warming," said Thomas Frolicher, a climate scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland
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Newspaper clipping from 1912 mentions link between burning coal and a warmer planet
The headline reads: "Coal Consumption Affecting Climate Change"
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"A place in crisis": Is Tangier Island America's first climate change casualty?
Since 1850, the island has lost two-thirds of its land mass
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How global warming could chill economic growth
Extreme temperatures—both hot and cold—spell trouble for many sectors of the economy
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Australia's most populous state is now entirely in drought
Struggling farmers were given new authority to shoot kangaroos that compete with livestock for sparse pasture during the most intense dry spell in more than 50 years
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Are devastating wildfires a new normal? "It's actually worse than that," climate scientist says
"A new normal makes it sound like we've arrived in a new position and that's where we're going to be"
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California issues dire warning on impact of climate change
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U.N. report about global warming warns of "life-or-death situation"
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Tree rings aid study of climate change and weather conditions
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California assembly passes bill mandating 100 percent clean electricity
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke acknowledges role of climate change in wildfires
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