More Climate Change - Page 104
Thousands of seagulls swarming in China is like 'The Birds' IRL
They were in search of food.
By Victoria Ho
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The businesswoman running 1,040 miles across 7 deserts for water
When your cause is the future of humanity, sometimes muscle cramps and sore feet cease to matter so much.
By Ariel Bogle
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Death Valley, the driest place in North America, is now a sea of yellow flowers
Thanks to record-breaking rains last year, one of Earth's hottest and driest spots is now awash in sea of yellow wildflowers.
By Elizabeth Pierson and Andrew Freedman
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Watch this sea snail flutter through the ocean just like a butterfly
The "sea butterfly" is a zooplankton snail that behaves more like an insect, and its movement may pave the way for a fleet tiny underwater robots.
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Sea level is now rising at fastest rate in nearly 3,000 years
Human-caused global warming has led to a huge spike in coastal flooding events in the U.S., which may get much worse as the climate warms.
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Tropical Cyclone Winston - strongest ever seen in southern hemisphere - hits Fiji
Tropical Cyclone Winston slammed into Fiji as the strongest such storm ever observed in the southern hemisphere, and one of the strongest in the world.
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Fierce Tropical Cyclone Winston threatens to devastate Fiji
Extremely intense Tropical Cyclone Winston is on course to make a direct hit on Fiji's capital this weekend.
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U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres to step down
One of the leading figures who helped craft the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change is stepping down from her post.
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This Louisiana tribe is now America's first official climate refugees
The Obama administration is paying to relocate a native tribe whose land is sinking beneath the rising seas of the Gulf of Mexico.
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El Niño was supposed to bail out parched California, so what happened?
The record El Niño has not bailed California out of its drought woes. If the state doesn't get hit by several storms soon, the situation will grow more dire.
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Global warming in overdrive: We just had the hottest January ever recorded
January of 2016 saw the largest temperature anomaly Earth has recorded since at least the late 19th century, NASA found.
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Without Scalia, Obama's climate plan may have a better chance of survival
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death makes it more likely that President Obama's global warming plan will be upheld.
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Snuggle up: This Valentine's Day is going to be brutally cold in the Eastern U.S.
One of the coldest air masses in years is going to hit the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Valentine's Day.
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Nearly 3,000 climate scientists condemn Australia's dramatic research cuts
Nearly 3,000 climate scientists from around the world denounced Australia's plan to slash climate research at the nation's top science agency.
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Supreme Court freezes Obama's climate change plan
The surprising move to put the plan on hold is a big win for conservatives.
By The Associated Press
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Aviation's first-ever carbon standards won't do much to slow global warming
The first-ever carbon emissions standards for aviation were rolled out on Monday, but they are being criticized as weak.
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Global warming policies we set today will determine the next 10,000 years
Decisions made in the next couple of decades about reducing greenhouse gas emissions will determine the severity of global warming -- including potentially catastrophic sea level rise -- for the next 10,000 years, per a new study.
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It will be ass cold on the East Coast for Valentine's Day weekend
A severe cold snap is set to overtake the eastern U.S. for Valentine's Day weekend.
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Unusually warm Arctic winter stuns scientists with record low ice extent for January
“For the Arctic, this is definitely the strangest winter I’ve ever seen."
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The renewable energy revolution is already upon us, report shows
Wind and solar generation are skyrocketing in the U.S. as greenhouse gas emissions drop.
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What we still don't know about Zika virus
These are the key questions that scientists are racing to answer in order to halt the spread of the devastating Zika virus.
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Zika virus outbreak now an international 'public health emergency,' WHO says
The Zika virus spreading across Central and South America constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern."
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