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Rachel Notley has a warning for Trump.
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Scientists invent more accurate way to measure oilsands pollution.
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Pollution from Canada’s oil sands may be underreported.
Canadian scientists have found that the standard way of tallying air and climate pollution from Alberta’s oil sands vastly understates pollution levels there —...
Global warming is sharply raising the risk of 'unprecedented' events.
An Indian boy takes bath in an ornamental fountain on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, April 18, 2017.Image: RAJAT GUPTA/EPA/REX/ShutterstockBy...
At least global warming may get Americans off the couch more.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming's milder winters will likely nudge Americans off the couch more in the future, a rare, small benefit of climate...
The Arctic is melting and guess who faces more flooding — that’s right, South...
A new assessment of polar ice melt could mean bad news for South Florida: higher sea rise than previously thought.
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The fingerprints of global warming on extreme weather.
When climate scientists examine whether the warming of the Earth has made extreme weather events such as heatwaves or downpours more likely, they generally...
Extreme Arctic melt is raising sea level rise threat; New estimate nearly twice IPCC's.
Global sea level rise could happen at nearly twice the rate previously projected by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even under the...
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