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California's blackouts could make fighting climate change even harder

Wildfire-prevention outages by PG&E and Southern California Edison have thrown the reliability of the power grid into doubt.

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It’s official: Parts of California are too wildfire-prone to insure

California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices.

We knew this would happen eventually.

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Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered

How to shop, cook and eat in a warming world.

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Where Americans will move as seas rise » Yale Climate Connections

They’re likely to go where they have friends, family, and jobs.

An oldie but good article.

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New study: Antarctica’s tipping point is closer than we thought

Coming soon: Eels in the subway.

It's hard to know what to say anymore.

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Few cities considering long-term risks of climate change, report says

More than 500 global cities self-report experiencing the effects of climate change, but few have prepared adequate action plans. 

We are desperately far behind on preparations for climate change.

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Extreme climate change in the United States: Here are America’s fastest-warming places

More than a century of temperature data shows much of the U.S. Northeast is in the grip of extreme warming, with winter heating up more quickly than other seasons.

Time to start getting ready.

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US cities average a failing grade on UN sustainability report card

Lagging execution of the Sustainable Development Goals should "provide flashing red lights" to communities, according to the network's director.

This is not great, but also not surprising. Cities need to lead the fight against climate change.

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Your city probably won’t feel like itself in 30 years

Like the weather in Barcelona? Move to London.

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The New York Times: Mexico Hailstorm Blankets Western Areas Under 3 Feet of Ice.

Mexico Hailstorm Blankets Western Areas Under 3 Feet of Ice

A local mayor said he had never seen anything like it. The Mexican Army also assisted in the cleanup.

This is not normal.

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Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice yesterday, which is very unusual

Over 40% of Greenland experienced melting yesterday, with total ice loss estimated to be more than 2 gigatons (a gigaton is equal to 1 billi

This is bad.

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At first glance, it looks like a rain cloud.

This is absolutely wild.

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Looking for an investment with a high, secure return on investment? A light energy efficiency retrofit of a typical existing home can deliver a whopping 18.5% return annually, nearly double that of long-term stocks. It’s also a much higher return than that of residential rooftop solar, though they both deliver complementary cuts in carbon emissions that are necessary to address the climate challenge.

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A million species are at risk of extinction. Humans are to blame.

It will likely take millions of years for the Earth to recover from the biodiversity crisis.

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Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace

A dire United Nations report, based on thousands of scientific studies, paints an urgent picture of biodiversity loss and finds that climate

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"It's time for architects to choose ethics over aesthetics" says Christine Murray

Architects can limit the environmental impact building has on our climate using their power as specifiers, they just need do it, says Chr

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Siberia's Pleistocene Park: Bringing back pieces of the Ice Age to combat climate change

With Arctic permafrost thawing too quickly, scientists in Siberia are considering drastic measures

Thanks to 60 Minutes for this report.