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A fossil museum uses the past to reimagine climate's future
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A fossil museum uses the past to reimagine climate's future

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.
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Earth's temps today are 'unprecedented' in 24,000 years

A new effort to reconstruct Earth's temperature and climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far out of bounds human activity has pushed the climate system.

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Recent global warming 'unprecedented' in 24,000 years, finds study

The speed of human-caused global warming over the last 150 years is faster than anything seen since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, according to a study.

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the dust that cooled the planet
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Searching for the dust that cooled the planet

A new study uncovers the origins of iron-rich dust that contributed to the last ice age’s coldest temperatures.
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Zeke Hausfather And Andrew Dessler climate impacts
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Zeke Hausfather And Andrew Dessler: Global warming's impact -  not worst-case but still deadly, if we don't act

If carbon emissions continue increasing, we could end up tripling rather than just doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere by the end of the 21st century.
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The massive glacier that formed the Great Lakes is disappearing - and greenhouse gases are to blame for its untimely demise
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The massive glacier that formed the Great Lakes is disappearing - and greenhouse gases are to blame for its untimely demise

The Barnes Ice Cap, a Delaware-sized glacier and the last link to the continental ice sheet that shaped the Great Lakes, is now on pace to vanish.
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Study of sea-level rise finds land sinking along east coast
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Study of sea-level rise finds land sinking along east coast

A new study, which used everything from tide gauges to GPS data to paint the most accurate picture ever of sea-level rise along the east coast of the U.S., is suggesting that in addition to rising seas, communities along the coast may also have to contend with the land sinking.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
U.S. Department of Interior nominee Doug Burgum speaks at a podium.

Doug Burgum pushes for fossil fuel expansion as Interior nominee

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Wildfires in Los Angeles bring widespread economic and health fallout

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How raging wildfires overwhelmed Los Angeles suburbs, creating a catastrophe

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Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick for EPA administrator, speaks at a podium.

Trump’s EPA pick faces Senate grilling over climate rollback plans

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Oil industry figures celebrate Trump inauguration with exclusive DC party

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Supreme Court declines to intervene in key environmental and climate disputes

CLIMATE
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Closing coal plants in environmental justice communities first would save more lives: Study

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Climate change could cut global GDP in half by late 21st century