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California declared war on smog in the 1970s. The knock-on effects were huge.A professor of environmental law explores the 1970 Clean Air Act and it how it has effected car emissions and smog in the decades since.
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Antarctica hides huge caches of gold, silver, copper and iron. As the ice melts, countries may race to harvest them.Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in Antarctica, a new analysis finds.
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Earth's energy imbalance is much more extreme than climate models show — but scientists aren't sure whyFor reasons that are still unclear, climate models underestimate the growing gap between the amount of energy Earth receives from the sun and the amount the planet radiates into space.
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Extreme wildfires, droughts and storms could happen even under moderate global warming, study findsNew research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even we limit heating to 3.6 F above preindustrial levels.
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China's huge push to reduce air pollution had an unexpected consequence in the ArcticChina's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change.
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Iran war has already released a staggering amount of CO2 — and the destruction of schools, homes and buildings is the biggest sourceIn a new analysis, researchers estimated direct, indirect and future greenhouse gas emissions that were created in the first two weeks of the Iran war, between Feb. 28 and March 14.
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Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million yearsToday's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
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Brazil's underprotected Cerrado savanna stores a staggering amount of carbon, study findsThe Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.
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California's wildfire season is shifting, with more blazes after the traditional high-risk window, study findsNew research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.
