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Same scientists who defended cigarettes now deny climate change. Heartland's funded by ExxonMobil and the Kochs — hundreds of millions behind the doubt.
Marmots stood to gain from climate change, researches thought. Instead, less snow cover means more freeze over winter without the blanket-like snow warming their burrows.
Harp seals must teach their pups to swim. With early ice melts due to climate change, their window is shrinking and some years, none survive.
Jessica Alba founded The Honest Company because you don't need to be a card carrying environmentalist to make an impact.
Toxic haze from Indonesia's fires shut Malaysian schools for 2 million kids — and now it's choking Singapore ahead of its F1 Grand Prix.
Professor Sharma's robotic dogs are still in early stages — snapping photos of every plant before eventually learning to pull weeds themselves, aimed at farm labor shortages.
Fox News hosts downplay the risks of climate change, claiming that it would 'save lives' and 'open shipping lanes' if it is real (which they doubt).
Jack Black discovers: 6.6 feet by 2100 — the map shows all of Miami underwater at high tide. No safe place left.
"Wet bulb" is the tipping point where sweat stops working — heatstroke and organ failure can follow in hours.
Hurricane Polo exploded from tropical storm to Category 5 in 24 hours. Climate change was the bigger driver than El Niño — and it only gets worse.
Schwarzenegger's critique: environmentalists lean on facts and figures when selling tickets — you have to seduce the audience with a story instead.
The "Doomsday" Thwaites glacier holds enough ice to increase sea levels three feet. Worse, it stabilizes inland ice sheets that could increase levels to 10 feet. Scientists speculate how this could be delayed.
George Bush is primarily remembered for his 'quagmires' in the middle-east. However, those achievements sometimes obscure his contributions to the climate crisis.
In a very different White House, National Security Advisor Susan Rice calls call climate change a national security threat, a stressor that makes conflict more ignitable.