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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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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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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"Resilience may not be enough": Why a rare sea turtle is losing its males
It's not genetics that determine a sea turtle's sex, it's the temperature of the sand
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Death Valley smashes heat record for 2nd year in a row
A whopping 21 days in July saw maximum temperatures of 120 degrees F (48.9 degrees C) or higher in Death Valley
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In vicious cycle, warmer dirt makes climate change worse, study says
As the world continues to warm, soil will release yet more carbon that it has been holding, according to scientists
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World's biggest king penguin colony shrinks nearly 90 percent
Recent satellite images of Ile aux Cochons shows the population of king penguins has collapsed
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Record-breaking heat and fires are worsened by climate change, scientists say
"Weirdness abounds," said Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis
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Massive iceberg breaks off from Greenland glacier
"This is the largest event we've seen in over a decade in Greenland," said an expert in atmospheric and ocean science
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Who is Andrew Wheeler, Scott Pruitt's EPA replacement?
Wheeler, a former coal industry lobbyist, was confirmed as the No. 2 official at the EPA in April despite complaints from Democrats
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How wineries from Oregon to France are adapting to climate change
Familia Torres, a major wine producer based in Spain, says climate change is a "very serious worldwide problem" for winemakers
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Judge rules Big Oil can't be sued for climate change costs
In his decision he says the environmental problem is too big for a "judge or jury in a public nuisance case"
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Governor Brown
When it comes to climate change, California Governor Jerry Brown says President Trump doesn't have the fear of the wrath of God
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Father and son trek to South Pole, using only renewable energy
Thirty-two years after becoming the first man to walk to both poles, Robert Swan teamed up with his son Barney for another first: trekking to the South Pole using only renewable energy
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Corals, blueberry bushes and polar bears: Signs of change are all around
You don't need a thermometer or a rain gauge to notice climate change -- and you don't need to be a scientist to see it
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30 years after warning, global warming "is in our living room"
In 1988, NASA's top scientist and other doomsayers were right; James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn't approaching -- it had already arrived
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Antarctic ice melting at alarming rate, study finds
Since 1992, Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tons of ice – enough water to cover Texas to a depth of nearly 13 feet, scientists calculated
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8 things you can do to make a difference for our oceans
"Things are bad but we're at a state where we can definitely make a change," said Samantha Mackiewicz, director of World Oceans Day
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"In dire need of action": High-tide flooding doubles over last 30 years
Ben Horton, a Rutgers University researcher who was not involved in a new study on high-tide flooding, called it "a warning, a shot across the bow"
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"The U.S. sizzled": May smashes U.S. temperature records
May was 5.2 degrees above the 20th century's average for the month, according to the NOAA
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India vows to ban all single-use plastics by 2022
"It is the duty of each one of use to ensure that the quest for material prosperity cannot lead to environmental degradation," said India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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What over 60 countries have done to curb plastic waste
"Plastic isn’t the problem. It’s what we do with it," said Erik Solheim, the head of U.N. Environment
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Study: Following climate accord goals could save trillions of dollars
One year ago, President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord, saying it would have negative impacts on the U.S. economy. But a new study from Stanford University researchers says following the agreement's guidelines could save $20 trillion. One of the study's authors, Stanford professor and senior fellow Noah Diffenbaugh, joins CBSN to discuss the research.
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Bloomberg says Trump "can change his mind" on climate issues
A year after the president said U.S. would exit the Paris Agreement, the former NYC mayor is pledging $70 million to help cities cut greenhouse gas emissions
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The governor who's castigating the president on climate change
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Expedition Antarctica: A father and son's journey to save the planet
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Study: Following climate accord goals could save trillions of dollars
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Michael Bloomberg says he hopes Trump will "change his mind" on climate change
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Group wants to carve Trump's face into a glacier to prove climate change exists
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