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- More, hotter heat waves predicted for Southern California
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Southern California is going to feel the heat in the coming years, according to a new UCLA climate change study.
The study, released Thursday, is the [...] - Cities Lead Effort to Curb Climate Change as Nations Lag
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading an effort by 58 of the world’s largest cities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while federal governments struggle to [...]
- Climate Change May Spark More Wildfires In Future
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The fires now raging in Colorado and elsewhere may be bad, but scientists studying the relationship between wildfires and climate change have this [...] - Virginia Republicans Oppose Sea-Level Rise Language
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Virginia’s Hampton Roads region is at high risk for flooding, and lawmakers and officials in the state are trying to plan for the sea-level rise [...]
- The Heat is On: U.S. Temperature Trends
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Global warming isn’t uniform. The continental U.S. has warmed by about 1.3°F over the past 100 years, but the temperature increase hasn’t been the same [...]
- Mitt Romney worked to combat climate change as governor
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During his first 18 months as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney spent considerable time hammering out a sweeping climate change plan to reduce the state’s [...]
- Warmest U.S. spring on record: NOAA
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So far, 2012 has been the warmest year the United States has ever seen, with the warmest spring and the second-warmest May since record-keeping began [...]
- U.S. cities trail Latin America in climate change efforts
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Major U.S. cities are among the world’s wealthiest and technologically advanced, but they lag behind their counterparts in Latin America in preparing for climate change, [...]
- Expert: Climate Change Will Increasingly Become Global Health Issue
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Previously just the worry of climate scientists, environmentalists, doomsday prognosticators, and gas-price watchers, climate change is starting to worry some others— public health specialists, who [...]
- Global warming turns tundra to forest: study
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Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may [...]
