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Environmental Concerns — and Anger — Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana
Environmental and public health concerns are mounting as the waters recede.
Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Doubled the Chances of Louisiana’s Flooding Rains
A new study finds that human-caused climate change doubled the chances of the torrential rains that caused deadly flooding in LA.
Day After Obama Tours Louisiana Flood Damage, Government Holds Massive Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Auction
Four environmental activists were arrested in New Orleans protesting a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development.
In Arctic, Ancient Diseases Return and Highways Melt as Temperatures Hit Records
Just eight months after the Paris climate talks, we are close to reaching the 1.5C upper limit of planetary warming.
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Climate Disruption Amplifies Atlantic Currents’ Contribution to Sea Level Rise
The Atlantic Ocean current pattern is being slowed by climate disruption, and the pattern shift has been linked to sea level rise.
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Global Climate Change Needs Global Response
Any effective response to climate change must be systemic and global in nature.
Urbanologist Grades Government’s Response to Katrina With an “F“
New Orleans' devastation was a chance by pols “to give out outrageous contracts to campaign donors,” says author Roberta Brandes Gratz.
Dahr Jamail | The Brink of Mass Extinction
March through June 2014 were the hottest on record globally. While a single extreme weather event is not proof of anthropogenic climate disruption, the increasing intensity and frequency of …
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Zimbabwe’s Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster: We Visit the 18,000 People Forcibly Relocated to Ruling Party Farm
Almost 18,000 other people who had lived in the 50-kilometre radius of Chivi basin in Zimbabwe's Masvingo province were forcibly removed after flooding - but the community believes it …
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The Eye of the Storm That Sees Us All
William Rivers Pitt: We're a funny lot, in that we must be led to the edge of the precipice and then kicked in the back before saying, 'Wow, this …