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Sugar cane workers in India | Photo: Jean Marc-Giboux for International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, some rights reserved
Kidney failure in agriculture workers around the globe is a symptom of a warming planet.
California coastline at Pacifica in the S.F. Bay Area | Photo: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons
By century’s end, rapidly rising seas could engulf California infrastructure, cripple economies and force a retreat from the Coast.
Phil Dustan | Photo: courtesy Phil Dustan
Reefs are like the canary in a coal mine: sensitive indicators of the way the Earth is changing.
An oyster at Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Netarts Bay, Oregon | Photo: Oregon State University
Increasing acidity in our oceans is already harming coral reefs.... and a whole lot more. Oysters, for instance.
Bleached staghorn coral off the coast of Queensland | Photo: Matt Kieffer, some rights reserved
Oceans are rising, warming, and becoming more acidic — none of which is good for coral reefs.
Future Possibilities
What do we think of when we consider the future of our city? What is possible and realistic? These graphics show what some hope their neighborhood will be some day.
A medic at Oceti Sakowin Camp
"Standing Rock’s stand is not over, nor will it be. Do not despair: we have been here before."
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Climate Resolve Q&A with Riley Duren of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the Megacities Carbon Project and keeping Earth healthy.
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These ten stories captured your attention in 2016.
Doug Aitken, "Underwater Pavilions." | Photo: Matt Crotty (featured)
Our oceans are both beautiful and in trouble. This is the message running through Doug Aitken’s project on Catalina Island, “Underwater Pavilions.”
Chuckwalla at Joshua Tree
A study shows that given proper guidance, a group of avid amateurs can actually collect better data than trained scientists.
The San Gabriel community of Monterey Park after a 1949 snowstorm
Snow once fell on the Los Angeles coastal plain roughly once per decade, but the city is now in the middle of a 54-year snow drought.
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