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Extreme weather and GMO crops devastate monarch butterfly migration
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It’s not so much the butterfly effect as the butterfly affected: We knew monarchs had it bad as of late, but there was some hope for their winter migration — until scientists conducted a census. In...
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Mar.18.2013
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6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You
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The planet keeps getting hotter, new data showed this week. Especially in America, where 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded, by far. Every few years, the U.S. federal government engages hundre...
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Feb.18.2013
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Get used to ‘extreme’ weather, it’s the new normal
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Source: The Guardian Scientists have been warning us for years that a warmer planet would lead to more extreme weather, and now it’s arrived It has been a summer full of reports of extreme we...
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Sep.21.2012
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S. Korea on high alert as Typhoon Sanba nears
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Source: MSN news South Korea was Sunday bracing for the arrival of its third major typhoon in two months, with school classes cancelled, ferry routes closed and thousands of ships sheltering in por...
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Sep.17.2012
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Heavy rains flood towns in Thailand, forcing thousands to evacuate
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Source: NBC photoblog A general view of a flooded town in Sukhothai province is seen, north of Bangkok on Sept. 12. Thousands have fled their homes in Northern Thailand after heavy rain caused a ma...
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Sep.13.2012
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Arctic Ice Melt Could Mean More Extreme Winters For U.S. And Europe
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Source: Climate Central via Huffington Post The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer will echo throughout the weather patterns affecting the U.S. and Europe this winter, climate scientists sai...
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Sep.13.2012
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When Heat Kills: Global Warming As Public Health Threat
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Source: NPR he current poster child for global warming is a polar bear, sitting on a melting iceberg. Some health officials argue the symbol should, instead, be a child. That’s because emergi...
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Sep.12.2012
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This week in the World – Environment, Green Life
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0. World Conservation Congress in South Korea It had started on September 9 until 16 of the Month. It will cover variety of issues including green growth. IUCN Congress kicks off in Korea 1. Enviro...
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Sep.7.2012
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Q. and A.: Climate Change and the Monsoon
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Source: New York Times As I report today in The Times, the South Asian monsoon is critical to sustaining plants, animals and 1.6 billion people on the subcontinent. When it brings too little rain b...
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Sep.5.2012
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Hurricane Isaac May Cost Insurers $2 Billion, AIR Says
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Source: Bloomberg Isaac, the storm drenching Arkansas after making landfall in Louisiana as a hurricane, may cost insurers as much as $2 billion in the U.S., risk-modeling firm AIR Worldwide said. ...
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Sep.4.2012
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Typhoon Bolaven 2012: North Korea Says Powerful Typhoon Kills 48
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Source: Huffington Post North Korea says a typhoon that hit the peninsula last week killed 48 people and left 21,000 homeless. The update from the official Korean Central News Agency said Monday th...
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Sep.4.2012
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Hurricane Isaac Power Outages Remain Across Louisiana
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Source: Huffington Post Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any po...
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Sep.3.2012
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Typhoon Bolaven watchers’ cars engulfed by giant waves in China
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Source: NBC photoblog
A car tipped over by a huge wave after its owner parked it on the bank to watch waves brought on by Typhoon Bolaven in Qingdao.
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Aug.30.2012
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Isaac threatens Gulf oil production
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Source: CNN money Tropical Storm Isaac is curtailing oil production along the Gulf of Mexico and threatening refineries, which could send already rising gasoline prices up another 10 cents in the c...
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Aug.29.2012
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Isaac Now a Hurricane, But It’s Still No Katrina
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Source: National Geographic Having just reached hurricane strength, Hurricane Isaac is poised to make landfall in New Orleans Tuesday night—just hours before the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Ka...
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Aug.29.2012
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A seagull stands next to a tree blown over in the car park of a marina in Marathon
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Source: The Guardian
Tropical Storm Isaac passes through Cuba and the Dominican Republic towards Florida
The storm batters the Caribbean islands as Florida battens down the hatches
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Aug.28.2012
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Burma floods drive tens of thousands from their homes
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Source: The Guardian Worst monsoon flooding in years submerges hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice fields, causing 85,000 to flee At least 85,000 people in Burma have fled their homes as the ...
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Aug.27.2012
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Why are so many forests on fire?
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Source: The Guardian Wildfires have been reported in Spain, Sri Lanka, Greece and Bosnia this summer – is the extreme weather to blame? They may be an annual occurrence in California but “wil...
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Aug.24.2012
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Extreme Heat, Drought Show Vulnerability of Nuclear Power Plants
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Source: Inside Climate News Will 2012 go down as the year that left the idea of nuclear energy expansion in the hot, dry dust? Nuclear energy might be an important weapon in the battle against clim...
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Aug.17.2012
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Urban Heat Island Effect And Climate Change May Cause Scorching City Temperatures
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Source: Huffington Post For scientists who worry about climate change, cities are just plain annoying. The acres of asphalt that cover roads and parking lots and roofs absorb enormous amounts of he...
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Aug.17.2012
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