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Videos - October 19th, 2009 in Arctic & Greenland, Trends, Projections, Snow & Ice, Oceans & Coasts, Sea Level

Back to the Future

Travel to Greenland and visit the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project, or NEEM as they sample icecores from our past to read the future.…
Videos - September 2nd, 2009 in Impacts, United States, Pacific Northwest, Trends, Climate, Extremes, Drought, Wildfires, Snow & Ice, Flora & Fauna, Policy, Weather, Landscapes

The Bark Beetles Are Coming!

Warming climate is helping bark beetles spread in the West…
Videos - June 1st, 2009 in Causes, Greenhouse Gases, United States, West, Trends, Flora & Fauna, Energy, Fossil Fuels

What We Know for Sure

Scientists agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that it is increasing in the atmosphere…

Feb 8th, 2010

Western Australia Drought is ‘Proof of Climate Change.’

AUSTRALIAN AP - The author behind a new study linking 30-year drought in Western Australia with heavy snowfall in Antarctica says it is strong…
Feb 8th, 2010

To Save Amazon Rainforest, Expert Pushes Smarter Farming to Replace Slash-and-Burn

AP - It's a simple system, long practiced in the U.S., of rotating crops instead of simply chopping down forest. But here in the…
Feb 8th, 2010

Conservationist: Colorado Sees Climate Change Effects

AP - The head of one of the country's largest conservation groups is warning that Colorado is in the "bull's eye of climate change"…
Feb 7th, 2010

Study: Eastern Trees in the Midst of a Growth Spurt

Two decades' worth of careful measurements of hardwood forests in Maryland show their growth has accelerated significantly over the past two decades. Is it…
Feb 3rd, 2010

Mistakes Happen

Phil Duffy, an IPCC co-author, comments on the spate of recent attacks on the IPCC.