Tuesday’s data sound the alarm on the second-warmest Arctic on record.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: U.S. joins wrong side of debate at climate conference
We should be leading the campaign to head off global warming, not fighting it.
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Posted inNation & World, News
At global climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels
President Trump’s top adviser on energy and climate spurs protest and mocking laughter.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
GM fights government to retain tax credit for electric cars
Preserving the $7,500 tax incentive for buyers is crucial for GM as the company pivots from internal combustion engines in favor of building cars powered by batteries.
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Our View: Hydro-Quebec answers key climate question
The company is wasting enough energy to fill a contract with Massachusetts.
Posted inNation & World
Scientists say warm oceans led to ancient mass extinction
A study published in Science says volcanic eruptions caused the level of heat-trapping carbon dioxide to soar, providing a glimpse of the harm human-caused climate change could wreak.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Science
Gulf of Maine’s 3rd-warmest year on record harms puffins, turtles and kelp
The effects on species that thrive in cold waters provide glimpses of the damage that rising ocean temperatures can do, but the federal and state response remains weak.
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3M requiring every new product to have a sustainability component
The move is expected to touch each of the roughly 1,000 new products the company introduces each year.
Posted inHealth, Op-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Toll of infectious disease may finally provoke action on climate change
It will be harder for the U.S. to see global warming as a far-off threat as things like Lyme grow more prevalent.
Posted inNation & World
Climate talks focus on rules of landmark Paris accord
The 2015 goal was to keep global temperature increases below 3.6 Fahrenheit and even a 2.7 F limit is challenging.