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WATCH: What Does 400 ppm Mean? Talking with Climate Scientist Michael Mann

"We are engaged in an unprecedented experiment."

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| Wed May. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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You Need Phosphorous to Live—and We're Running Out

Industrial farming has played a part in sucking this critical element out of our soil.

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| Wed May. 22, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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How Hitler's U-Boats Are Still Attacking Us

Tankers downed by German U-Boats in World War II threaten to leak fuel into US waters.

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| Tue May. 21, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Croatians (and Americans) Training Honeybees to Sniff Out Landmines

Researchers are training bees to locate unexploded landmines in Croatia and the rest of the Balkans.

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| Mon May. 20, 2013 11:12 AM PDT

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A t-rex in the park

12 Animals We Wish We Could De-Extinct

From T. rex to the Tasmanian tiger, here's what it would take to resurrect these lost species.

— By Maggie Severns and the Mother Jones news team

 | Wed May. 15, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

John Kerry Updates His Climate Change Creds at the Arctic Council

Kerry travels to Sweden to join a meeting of a once-obscure council as they prepare to sign an historic agreement on oil spill repsonse in the far north.

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| Tue May. 14, 2013 1:32 PM PDT

We Just Passed the Climate's "Grim Milestone"

A monitor in Hawaii registered 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Here's what that means.

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| Fri May. 10, 2013 1:00 PM PDT
Wild Ones Stuffed Animals

Wild Man: An Interview with Jon Mooallem

The author of "Wild Ones," a book about the wacky world of conservation, talks prosthetic flippers and spirit animals.

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| Fri May. 10, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained

Climate deniers threw all their might at disproving the famous "hockey stick" climate change graph. Here's why they failed.

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| Thu May. 9, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Conservative Immigration Scholar: Black and Hispanic Immigrants Are Dumber Than European Immigrants

Jason Richwine, who coauthored a Heritage Foundation study on immigration, didn't just argue that certain minorities are dumber in his scholarship—he also said it at a public panel.

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| Wed May. 8, 2013 2:04 PM PDT

Finally, Some Not-Terrible Climate News: Greenland Not Melting Any Faster

The last ten years have seen unprecedented ice loss. Don't expect that speedup to continue, a new study says.

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| Mon May. 6, 2013 9:01 AM PDT
Polar bear on a remnant ice floe.

10 Key Findings From a Rapidly Acidifying Arctic Ocean

Because of global warming, the Arctic Ocean is turning corrosive faster than any other waters on Earth.

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| Tue May. 7, 2013 3:03 AM PDT

Scientists Use DNA From Poop to Track Rare Tigers

A new project uses poop to gather genetic information on rare tigers.

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| Thu May. 2, 2013 8:11 AM PDT
Men in Black

Why Darrell Issa Should Hold Hearings on Space Aliens

Or, what happens when six former members of Congress stop being polite about UFO disclosure—and start getting real.

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| Thu May. 2, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

America's Fertilizer Keeps Blowing Up. It Doesn't Have To.

Europe and Australia long ago recognized the benefits of a fertilizer formula that doesn’t blow up. Here, the chemical industry fought back.

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| Thu May. 2, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
Canada's possible Arctic Ocean route to deliver tar sands oil to Europe and Asia

Canada Considers Shipping Tar Sands Oil Across Arctic Ocean

Stymied by opposition to Keystone XL and similar Canadian pipelines to provinces east and west, Canada thinks about turning north.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 12:33 PM PDT

Fracking Boom in North Dakota Is Here to Stay

A new federal study doubles previous estimates of the Bakken Shale's oil reserves.

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| Wed May. 1, 2013 8:05 AM PDT

WATCH: A Conversation With Climate Scientist Michael Mann

The next Climate Desk Live event is up and running. Watch the livestream here.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 10:00 AM PDT
The Meske's skipper was AWOL for a decade before returning.

5 Butterfly Species Just Vanished While No One Was Looking

An entomologist looked for six years and concluded that five rare Florida butterflies are now extinct.

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| Tue Apr. 30, 2013 3:03 AM PDT

Why Do Conservatives Like to Waste Energy?

Want to sell a Republican a greener light bulb? Don't tell them it's green.

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| Wed Apr. 24, 2013 1:26 PM PDT