…Gulf Stream and other environmental factors. “These low levels could rise with warming and/or freshening of surface water in the subpolar north Atlantic.” From 1950 to 2009 (60-year window), the…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Despite the fact that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found “unequivocal” evidence of anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change, the levels of public belief…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Dynamics within the oil business are famously difficult to interpret and predict. Still, certain hard facts about the industry remain well known — for example,…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email As of June 2012, 55% of the United States was experiencing drought conditions, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The month was also the…
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…bottles has skyrocketed. A 2012 study published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, “Alternative Policies to Increase Recycling of Plastic Water Bottles in the United States,” explores how…
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…U.S. metropolitan areas. The researchers, from the U.S. Forest Service and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, analyzed aerial photographs spanning periods from four to six years to…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” the saying goes, but that’s a little tougher when it comes to the Earth’s…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Reporting on the issue of climate change has sometimes been characterized by “false balance” — the tendency to cover scientific findings as if there were…
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…three of them simultaneously. A 2012 study published in Environmental Research, “Multiple Environmental Chemical Exposures to Lead, Mercury and Polychlorinated Biphenyls Among Childbearing-Aged Women,” looked at women aged 16 to…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The melting of land-based ice masses as a consequence of climate change has significant implications for sea level rise. The shrinking of the ice sheets…
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