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Grow Veggies In Your Apartment With Windowfarms
Imaging having fresh lettuce and herbs available any day, any season. That usually seems like a pipe dream in the tiny fourth-floor walk up apartments of New York, but Brooklyn-based start up...
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Rapid Warming Is Drastically Changing The Arctic
Scientists predict global warming will affect certain areas more dramatically than others. The Arctic is one of these climate-change hotspots.Significant changes are happening sooner and more intensely...
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Arctic Sea Ice Doubled In Size During October
After reaching record lows earlier than expected in September, Arctic sea ice has doubled, but it's still the second smallest on record. The lowest sea ice extent for October came in 2007."This is a...
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October Was The 5th Hottest On Record
After a raging weather month — with the once-a-century Superstorm Sandy beating up much of the East Coast — NOAA just announced some intense statistics about this last month. Overall, it was the 5th...
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World Bank Warns Of Catastrophic Effects From 4 Degree Warming
The World Bank warned that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities and the poor.Issuing a call...
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Greenland Is Losing 200 Billion Tons Of Ice Every Year
The second largest piece of land ice on Earth covers Greenland and it is melting.These polar ice sheets, like the one in Greenland and the largest in Antarctica, are a major contributor to the rise of...
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Sea Level Has Risen Almost Six Centimeters Since 1995
Sea levels have continued to increase by 3.2 millimeters per year, according to a NASA chart analyzing data from 1992 to 2012. There was some debater after recordings showed a quarter inch drop in seal...
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Dolphins With Bullet Wounds And Tails Cut Off Are Washing Up On The Gulf Coast
Authorities are on the lookout for dolphin murderers after a string of dead dolphins with gunshot wounds, fins cut off, and jaws missing began turning up on the Gulf Coast, the AP reports. The...
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These Islands Are The First To Be Powered By Solar Energy Alone
The Tokelau islands are the first nation to be run completely on solar power, they announced on November 5. Tokelau is a New Zealand territory made up of three coral atolls — coral reef based islands —...
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A Storm Surge Barrier For Manhattan Is A Death Sentence For Staten Island
If storm surges were built to protect lower Manhattan, it will make storms hit much harder in the surrounding areas, including some of those that were the worst hit by Superstorm Sandy — Staten Island,...
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A New Zealand Volcano Is Spewing Ash, Suggesting Another Eruption Is Imminent
New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volcano erupted for the second time this year on Wednesday (Nov. 21), sending a plume of ash 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) skyward and raising the odds that another eruption is...
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Happy Consequence Of Climate Change: Bigger Sweet Potatoes
Rising levels of carbon dioxide could lead to bigger sweet potatoes, new research indicates. It could also increase yields of other important crops, like rice and wheat, previous findings showed.New...
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Doha Is The Worst (Or Best) Place In The World For A Climate Change Summit
Doha will host the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change. But can a major oil and gas hub with the highest carbon footprint per person in the world lead the way on a switch to a green...
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Human Waste Shows How We Impact Our Environment
Human waste can map two millennia of history and climate change in a remote, Arctic settlement in Norway, according to a new study.The findings suggest that human waste deposits could help researchers...
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Hike The 2,000-Mile Trail That Most People Never Finish
The Appalachian Trail, or AT, stretches more than 2,000 miles along the U.S. East Coast.Completed in 1937, the longest marked trail in the country runs from Georgia to Maine, connecting 14 states and...
View ArticleShrinking-Glacier Film Convinces Climate-Denying Bill O'Reilly Fan That...
"Chasing Ice" is a documentary about shrinking glaciers. The film follows National Geographic photographer James Balog through Iceland, Greenland, and Alaska as he captures irrefutable evidence of the...
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FACT: Antarctica And Greenland Are Melting
Polar ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland are melting, raising sea levels.This is a fact.But what is up for debate is how quickly it's happening.Today, Nov. 29, a group of researchers have published...
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'Green' Homes Are Actually Hurting The Environment
Newer homes are remarkably energy tight thanks to superior insulating materials that are in wide circulation today.The energy savings can be substantial – homeowners can use up to 60% less energy in...
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South Africa Is Losing The Battle Against Rhinoceros Poachers
By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brush and acacia, the nature reserve had become yet another blood-soaked crime scene in South Africa’s...
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16 Irrefutable Signs That Climate Change Is Real
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science provides the most definitive — and accurate — evidence yet that polar ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica are melting. Shrinking ice is not the...
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