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Water is perhaps the world’s most important resource, and one of the most common resources. For decades water was regarded as a common good, and it…
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A new study concludes that climate change played a role in sparking the civil war in Syria, adding to the body of research showing a climate…
A report from the National Academy of Sciences concluded that experiments in blotting out the sun in order to reduce the amount of the sun’s…
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Carbon Counterattack: How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Moment Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing…
Many people, including more than a few prominent politicians, accept that global warming must be limited to no more than two degrees C above the pre-industrial mean, or a little…
The Lima climate talks have just ended. Predictably, no substantive agreement was reached. The nations of the world agreed for the umpteenth time that climate change needs to be fixed…
This week, the world's leaders are gathering in Lima, Peru for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, where they hope to put together a plan for cutting global emissions…
Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final version of its contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and…
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Credit: AP Photo / Andy WongU.S. President Barack Obama, right, with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their synthesis report Sunday, Nov. 2nd. The report combines the Panel’s past work and reiterates the near unanimity in the scientific community…
European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The agreement, reached Oct. 24, calls for…
From 2002 to 2012, European satellite data consistently showed a “hotspot” of methane being emitted in the U.S. Southwest, but the amount was so large that scientists thought it was…
The last few months have not exactly been kind to climate change deniers. In May, a U.S. television show with one of the fastest growing audiences around took aim at…