Using a refurbished Cold War bomber, climate researchers are learning how superstorms really work.
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A Flight to the Top of the Most Powerful Hurricane Ever
Climate Change Is Wicked Bad for New England’s Cod
A new study says strict fishing quotas haven't taken account for warmer waters, which has kept cod populations from rebounding.
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Thank El Niño and Climate Change for Huge Hurricane Patricia
Global climate change and El Niño combined to brew up the strongest hurricane ever recorded.
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The Dutch Built a Massive Wave Machine to Study Flooding
The 15-foot waves will help study how manmade structures—breakwaters, seawalls, giant concrete blocks—stand up to crashing waves and giant storms.
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Climate Change Is Going to Be Expensive—For Everybody
Higher temperatures from climate change are going to be an economic gut punch for many countries. Even the rich ones.
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How Climate Change Became a National Security Problem
Bernie Sanders says climate change is our biggest national security issue. Is he right? And what does it mean if he is?
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Map Shows Where Sea Level Rise Will Drown American Cities
A new study and accompanying interactive map show where locked in sea level rise is going to flood.
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Shell Didn’t Quit Alaska Out of the Goodness of Its Heart
After nine years and $7 billion, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company is abandoning its drilling rights in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska.
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Climate Change Is So Bad That the US and China Agree on It
Within 60 days of each other, Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping each released detailed plans to curb coal power plants. Has the world gone completely sane?
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China Says It Will Start the World’s Biggest Carbon Market by 2017
On Friday, Chinese president Xi Jinping will announce that China will start the world's largest carbon trading system by 2017, according to a statement released Thursday night by the White House.
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