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After ditching Paris, Trump has another international climate decision to make

While it’s not the Paris climate agreement, hopes are rising that the Trump administration will not walk away from another international climate accord, one designed to limit emissions of su...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump nearing a decision on whether to exit the Paris climate deal

President Donald Trump is nearing a final decision on whether to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, with one White House official saying Wednesday that the president is leaning towar...

DATE: May 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mission to big Antarctic glacier planned

Scientists want to get better understanding of ice loss

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Seas aren’t just rising, scientists say. They’re speeding up.

On a warming Earth, seas inevitably rise, as ice on land melts and makes its way to the ocean. And not only that - the ocean itself swells, because warm water expands. We already know this i...

DATE: Aug 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

We’re trashing the oceans – and they’re returning the favor by making us sick

DATE: Aug 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

A stunning prediction of climate science – and basic physics – may now be coming true

A lot of people deny climate change. Not many, though, deny gravity. That’s why a recent animation released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory - well, it came out in April, but p...

DATE: Aug 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Snow, sea ice keep hitting record lows this year in Northern Hemisphere

As climate scientists nervously watch the Arctic and high latitudes this summer – fearing how 2016’s record warmth could push the delicate system – two new pieces of data are hardly consolin...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Climate change affects distribution of clouds across Earth

In a new study published in Nature, scientists say they have for the first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by a warming climate: The di...

DATE: Jul 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

This new Antarctica study is bad news for climate change doubters

For a number of years now, climate change skeptics and doubters have argued that there’s a key part of the Earth’s climate system that upends our expectations about global warming, and that ...

DATE: Jul 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Deep down, California may have a lot more water than scientists thought

In a surprising new study, The resource amounts to 2,700 billion tons of freshwater, mostly less than about 3,250 feet deep, according to the paper published Monday in the influential Proc...

DATE: Jun 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Renewables proving to be robust sources of energy

Most people know that wind and solar energy are booming. And for the most part, we simply see this as adding two new and cleaner sources of electricity to the mix that we already have. ...

DATE: Jun 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Carbon concentration in our atmosphere hits grim milestone

Scientists say we’ll never go back ‘within our lifetimes’

DATE: Jun 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth