Having a Closer Look at Cancer Alley

Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up...

A new chemistry innovation could reduce air pollution.

A new chemistry innovation could reduce smog, acid-rain and asthma-inducing pollution Anton Alexandrovich Toutov, Virginia Commonwealth University If humans created an emissions hall of shame, which...
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New Satellite Will Track Rising Oceans Into 2030

This article is re-printed from an article on NASA.gov Earth's climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of...
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NASA Study Shows Human Activities Are Drying Out the Amazon

Re-Published from JPL.NASA.gov - 12/5/2019 A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying...
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Why are whales big, but not bigger?

Matthew Savoca, Stanford University; Jeremy Goldbogen, Stanford University, and Nicholas Pyenson, Smithsonian Institution Both toothed and baleen (filter-feeding) whales are among the largest animals ever...
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Shrinking of Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

Laurence Padman, Earth and Space Research; Fernando Paolo, University of California San Diego, and Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego Ask people what...
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Multiple methods for removing CO2 from the the atmosphere will be...

David Goldberg, Columbia University Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are higher than at any time in human history, and nine of the warmest...

Winter and February 2020 end as second warmest on record

Republished from article on Climate.gov Author: Tom Di Liberto March 16, 2020 February 2020 marked the warm end to one of the most unusually warm months and...
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Carbon dioxide has a huge impact on Earth’s climate

Climate explained: why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth's climate Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a...
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Naturally occurring CO2 also a serious threat

Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth – could it happen again? Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters,...

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