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31 Science Groups To Congress: Stop Denying And Start Fighting Climate Change

America's top scientific organizations have a message for Congress: Human-caused climate change is a devastating, but curable illness -- so stop denying it and start treating it before it's too late.

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Climate Change’s Growing Impact On People Experiencing Homelessness

People experiencing homelessness could see "greater rates of illness and death due to increases in heat waves, air pollution, storms and floods, and vector-borne diseases resulting from climate change."

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Antarctica Is Warming Quickly, And That’s Bad News For Penguin Colonies

About 30 percent of current Adelie colonies may be in decline by 2060, and approximately 60 percent may be in decline by 2099.

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Just Five Common Foods Produce More Greenhouse Gas Emissions Than Nearly All Countries

A new report from Oxfam America stresses that food producers must be a more vocal part of the climate solution.

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A Third Of California’s Deep Groundwater Aquifers Are Being Used For Oil And Gas

A third of California's deep groundwater aquifers have oil and gas activities in them.

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Falling Renewable Energy Prices Threaten Energy Storage. Here’s What We Need to Do.

Clean energy and energy storage go together like peanut butter and jelly. But the falling cost of renewable energy threatens to break up this indispensable pair.

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This 21-Year-Old May Have Found The Way To Clean Up The Plastic In Our Oceans

Around eight million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans from land each year. Boyan Slat wants to clean it up.

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Even Small Investments In Clean Energy Could Save Millions Of Lives

Air pollution kills millions -- but relatively small investments in energy efficiency could change that.

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Scientists Plead With Australia To Get Off Coal To Save The Great Barrier Reef

Coral reefs around the world are in a dire predicament.

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What Brexit And Trump’s Rise Mean For The Global Community’s Fight Against Climate Change

Brexit and Trumpism underscore that even rich, democratic nations deal poorly with a moderate amount of refugees, immigration, and economic dislocation. Imagine how we'll deal with the 100-fold escalation of those problems if we fail to stop catastrophic climate change.

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