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Sea Level Rise May Be Smaller Than Predicted

A new study released by the University of Colorado at Boulder claims that a global sea rise of more than six feet by the year 2100 is nearly impossible. The researchers used…

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Global Warming Better, Worse Than We Thought

This is going to be a different kind of global warming post, because there's actually some good news to go along with the bad news. Well, not GOOD, but better than previously…

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Climate Change Never Looked So Good

Gavin Schmidt, NASA climate scientist and one of the nonsense-dispelling bloggers at RealClimate, teamed up with photographer Joshua Wolfe to create the new book Climate…

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Study Finds Ozone Hole Repair Contributes To Global Warming, Sea Ice Melt

In 1985, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found a giant hole in the ozone layer of Earth's atmosphere over the South Pole. This discovery prompted a largely…

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Pumping Well Water Out of the Ground May Be a Culprit in Rising Sea Levels

When we think of rising sea levels, we think of global climate change and melting ice caps. Yet there's a disparity in the raw data. During the second half of the last…

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Sea Level Rising Rapidly on Both Coasts, Could Even Flood San Francisco...

The Northeast U.S. has been taking the brunt of rising sea levels not just in the country but in the world, with waters rising three to four times faster than the global…

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Strategies for a Changing Planet: If All Else Fails...

Climate change is already happening, and it's time to get ready. Here's how we could adjust our most basic needs--food, water, shelter--to survive. It's impossible to…

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In Record Summer Heat, 97 Percent of Greenland's Surface Ice Turns to Slush

This has been a sensationally hot summer for America, with records breaking daily. But Greenland seems to have just claimed the heat-related phenomenon crown, with 97 percent…

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Where To Hide When The Ecopocalypse Hits [Infographic]

Thanks to climate change, our oceans could rise by as much as 20 or 30 feet in the coming centuries. You can either build an ark (which sounds like an awful lot of work) or…

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