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Abrupt climate change killed off ancient South American populations

Change isn't always good -- especially when it happens too quickly.

Iceland researchers trap CO2 into rocks -- but there's a catch

This could be a big part of the battle against climate change.

Researchers hack plants to use less water so we don't starve when climate change hits hard

These plants will drink responsibly -- whether they want it or not!

Scientists produce 'impossible' 400-year-long record of El Niño events

The researchers drilled coral cores in order to extend the climate record of El Ninos.

Climate change fuels banana disease, threatening our crops

It's getting worse: climate change is taking our bananas.

For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity than coal in the United States

The dawn of a new era!

Climate change may make the oceans belch out CO2, study warns

Oh, how the waters have turned.

Winds and waves are getting slightly stronger around the globe

The differences are tiny but they can add up in time to change global behavior.

Greenland ice is melting 6 times faster than in the 1980s

Requiem for an ice sheet.

Arctic warming accelerates climate change -- and will cost $70 trillion

Take action against climate change -- or pay up.

NASA research says ground-based global warming measurements are sound

"Both data sets demonstrate the earth's surface has been warming globally over this period, and that 2016, 2017, and 2015 have been the warmest years in the instrumental record," the authors explain.

Want to fight climate change? Eat less beef and lamb, new report concludes

It's probably not what you want to hear -- but it's what needs to be done.

Carbon dioxide levels haven't been this high in 3 million years

Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole.

Climate change killed almost 90% of the baby coral in the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef's future is bleak.

More than 20 African countries are planting a 8,000-km-long 'Great Green Wall'

Finally a 'wall' we can all support.

Major oil corporations spent $1 billion on climate lobbying against Paris Agreement-related regulations

Big oil has been all about double standards these past couple of years.

Ancient trash suggests climate change helped drive the Byzantine Empire into the ground

No army can fight on an empty belly. Neither can an empire.

The biggest impact to reducing your carbon footprint is having fewer children

Next up is living car-free, avoiding airplane travel, and turning vegetarian.

Warming oceans are depleting global fish stocks

As if overfishing wasn't enough, fisheries are plummeting because of the effects of higher water temperature as a result of global warming.

Don't sweat it: UK just records hottest winter day since records began -- twice

The record was broken -- and then broken again.

Clouds over tropical oceans could break apart if dangerous CO2 threshold is breached

If this ever happens, it would be like having crocodiles in the Arctic.

NASA finds a second huge impact crater beneath Greenland's ice sheet

Our planet has received its fair share of visitors along the years. This one has been hiding under Greenland's thick ice.

Pioneers of climate science win "Nobel" prize for environment

You could hardly imagine more deserving scientists to receive this award.

The hottest 5 years on record: 2016, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2014

The planet continues to heat up.

Sea level rise might not be as bad as predicted, despite accelerating ice sheet melting

Long story short: it's still bad.

Climate change will recolor much of the oceans by 2100, MIT research suggests

It's not good news.

This surge of extreme cold is probably caused by climate change -- and you'd better get used to it

Counterintuitive -- yes. Disproving global warming? Not in the slightest.

How climate change leads to more frequent thunderstorms

Scientists have put a number between climate change and storm frequency for the first time.

Retreating ice is exposing Arctic moss and plants for the first time in 120,000 years

Climate change is exposing plant life that's been preserved by the ice cap for thousands of years.

Leading economists urgently call for a tax on carbon

The world's leading economists are saying we should tax carbon. The politicians say we shouldn't.

Averting catastrophic climate change might be possible -- but only if we phase out fossil fuels immediately

Possible? Yes. Is it realistic? Not really. Should we try anyway? Hell yes!

Antarctica is losing six times more ice than 40 years ago

There's enough ice in Antarctica to raise sea levels by 60 meters -- and it's now on a slippery slope.

Thawing Canadian Arctic permafrost is releasing "substantial amounts" of mercury into waterways

In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.

Yes, the Trump administration really pitched coal at a climate conference

Well... this is awkward.

252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today

If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.

Greenland melting is 'off the charts' -- It's unprecedented in the last 400 years, scientists warn

In the past 20 years, Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at six-fold the rate seen before the Industrial Revolution.

"Collapse of civilization is on the horizon", David Attenborough tells UN climate summit

Time, he stressed, is running out.

Green roofs can be effective against climate change -- in the right climate

Green roofs are making a comeback -- at least in some parts of the world.

Meat and dairy are bad for the climate and the environment, researchers urge

The bottom line: eat more plants!

Buried away: deep soil holds surprisingly much CO2, but warming is bad news

Soils can store a lot of carbon, but not if temperatures continue to rise.

Unfortunately, the US president still doesn't understand what "climate" means

Regardless of someone's political affiliation, un-scientific beliefs should be taxed. At the end of the day, science is apolitical, and global warming affects us all -- whether we choose to believe in it or not.

Dry irony: first rain in centuries causes extinction of Atacama Desert microbes

This also means that resurfaced liquid water on Mars might kill any hypothetical surviving microbes.

Climate change caused the demise of flourishing Ancient civilization

There's a lesson to be learned from today.

Climate change might damage male fertility

This does not bode well.

Hole in ozone layer should completely patch up within 50 years, UN says

Finally some good news about the climate for a change!

World oceans may have absorbed 60% more heat than previously estimated

Ocean life is in bigger trouble than we thought.

Powerful hurricane wipes out tiny Hawaiian island off the map

Climate change claimed another island in the Pacific -- again.

Bitcoin could nudge global warming past 2°C

More cryptocurrencies, more problems.

Very few Americans are aware that 97% of climate scientists agree climate change is real

But if they were made aware of the fact, they might change their mind.

Antarctic ice shelf makes ghostly sounds as winds whip across its surface

It's like the soundscape for a bad horror movie.

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