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A frightening record: Carbon dioxide levels show biggest-annual jump
We're crashing climate records left and right.
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Greenland’s darkening snow is setting up a scary feedback loop
The ice sheet is entering its creepy clown phase.
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“Global warming is now in overdrive”: We just hit a terrible climate milestone
Despite the enormity of the moment, not everyone is paying attention.
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Algae blooms are nature’s angsty teenagers
Complicated, confusing, and crucial to our future.
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Mass extinction threatens the world’s pollinators — and its crops
A new UN-sponsored study suggests that 40 percent of invertebrate pollinators could go extinct.
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Important research confirms ocean acidification hurts corals
By making the water over part of a reef less acidic, researchers were able to measure how much faster coral can grow without CO2 pollution.
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Urban soil emits a surprising amount of CO2
In some cases, up to 72 percent as much CO2 as fossil fuels burned within a city.
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Climate change is already causing dramatic flooding in the coastal U.S.
Sea level is rising faster than ever before -- and it's already responsible for three-quarters of coastal floods in the U.S.
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150,000 penguins have disappeared in Antarctica. Thanks, climate change!
As the planet warms and ice continues to melt, this kind of thing could become commonplace.
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Is climate change giving the Great Barrier Reef herpes?
A new study suggests that bleaching and viral infections go hand-in-hand on coral reefs.
