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1 hr ago | Space.com

New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests

Forests store large amounts of carbon in their trunks and leaves, and play a major role in global climate.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Energy, Biomass, Science / Technology

5 hrs ago | Canada.com

Obama plans major push on global warming to curb emissions, boost renewable energy

President Barack Obama speaks in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

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Related Topix: Activism, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, World News, Germany, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

8 hrs ago | WMDT

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

8 hrs ago | WCAX-TV Burlington

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons rather than make cuts on his own President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.

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8 hrs ago | WATE-TV Knoxville

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

An influential Republican senator says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic... Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay

11 hrs ago | RollingStone

The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming

A list of the dumbest things ever said about global warming is, sadly, almost impossible to curate in any comprehensive fashion.

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Related Topix: US Politics, James Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Jim Inhofe, US House of Representatives, John Shimkus, Representative Steve Scalise, Blizzard

15 hrs ago | WTOP-FM Washington

Arlington adopts plan to transform how energy is generated, used

The CEP acts as a guide for transforming the way energy is used, generated and distributed in Arlington through 2050.

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19 hrs ago | CiteULike

Solar trends and global warming

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21 hrs ago | Reuters

Small global warming rise would have 'alarming' impact: World Bank

Much of Bangkok could flood within the next two decades if global warming stays on its current trajectory, as sea levels rise and cyclones intensify, the World Bank said in a new report on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World Bank, Natural Disasters, Flood

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Statesman Journal

Milbank: Holding back the tide of global warming

WASHINGTON -- The National Mall has monuments to heroism, freedom and sacrifice.

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Related Topix: Activism, National Mall, US National Parks, Washington, DC, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Sandy

American Reporter

Reporting: MedicineINFECTIONS Take at Least 51 Lives at Panama Hospital

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

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Related Topix: Brattleboro, VT, Africa, Tribal, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Scientific Computing/Instrument.

Global Cooling as Significant as Global Warming

A "cold snap" 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as a result of global warming, according to research published today in Nature Geoscience .

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Times of Oman

Winds on Venus have accelerated by a third: scientists

Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency reported on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Astronomy, Science

The Georgia Straight

David Suzuki: We ignore scientists at our peril

Research confirms agreement among most climate scientists that we are altering the Earth's climate, mainly by burning fossil fuels.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science

International Business Times

Australian Miners Refuse to Support Move Away from Coal Despite...

Coal workers at the jointly-owned coking coal mines of BHP Billiton Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have finally conceded to accept a new enterprise agreement, effectively ending a two-year mining clash.

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Related Topix: BHP Billiton, Mining, Metals, Mitsubishi, Food, Grocery

The Nation

Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday - in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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The Modesto Bee

UC Davis professor earns prestigious prize for environmental work

UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling, one of the nation's most influential transportation thinkers and policymakers, is the recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize, sometime called the Nobel Prize for environmental science.

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Examiner.com

Cuomo is right to promote tourism, wrong to push casino gaming

The Cuomo Administration deserves praise for new initiatives to promote tourism in New York State will be an economic and social boon, but the plan to develop three major casino gaming destinations in upstate is bad policy.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, Environment, Science, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Games, Blackjack

The Nation

Why Investors Must Do More Than Divest From Fossil Fuels

Photo by Reuters. Eleven cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, are moving towards divesting from fossil fuel companies.

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Tech Review

Selectively Targeting Aerosol Pollutants Could Reduce Climate Change

Chinese congestion: The increasing number of cars in China means motor vehicles have become a significant source of air pollution and urban smog.

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