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Looking for home in an overheating world: If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday?

Where will we go to find safety from fire, floods, and extreme storms then? How long will those of us uprooted from our homes have to stay in evacuation sanctuaries? Will we ever find home again?

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Climate change is making crabs lose their sense of smell — and seafood may never be the same

Climate change is altering acidity levels in the ocean — and when crabs pay the price, so do humans
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Global warming is disrupting an Antarctic current system that life on Earth relies on

The most terrifying thing about the abyssal ocean may be the fact that normal life on Earth is dependent on the way water moves through it. If that circulation changes, the repercussions could be devastating for all life on Earth.

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3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize

Why do so few adults participate in actions to encourage governments to do more about climate change? The answer may have to do with "response skepticism"
The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run
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The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run

Al Gore focused his 1988 presidential campaign and climate change — and the world shrugged him off
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The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run

The United States quietly hit a political tipping point some time in the 2010s, although few noticed at the time. That was the decade in which a majority of Americans polled said that climate change was really happening.

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Will wild coffee go extinct from climate change? Botanists say we can still save this crop

Climate change might drive wild coffee extinct, which would have broad impacts on the industry for the world's favorite drug.

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