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Scientist: ‘no doubt’ that climate change is playing a role in U.S. fires

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2012

NASA image: New Mexico suffers record megafire

Jeremy Hance 4 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

Thousands worldwide to “connect the dots” between climate change and extreme weather this weekend

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2012

Featured video: climate, water, and desperation in Texas

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2012

Scientists unlock indigenous secret to sustainable agriculture in the Amazon’s savannas

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2012

“Strong evidence” linking extreme heatwaves, floods, and droughts to climate change

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2012

Bad feedback loop: climate change diminishing Canadian forest’s carbon sink

Jeremy Hance 30 Jan 2012

Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jan 2012

Delayed response to Somalia famine cost thousands of lives

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2012

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2011

Earth systems disruption: Does 2011 indicate the “new normal” of climate chaos and conflict?

Ryan King 21 Dec 2011

Texas loses half a billion trees to epic drought

Jeremy Hance 21 Dec 2011

Droughts could push parts of Africa back into famine

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Is the Russian Forest Code a warning for Brazil?

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2011

Monarch butterflies decline at wintering grounds in Mexico, Texas drought adds to stress to migration

Sarah Jane Keller 10 Nov 2011

Climate change already worsening weird, deadly, and expensive weather

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2011

Killer Russian heatwave product of climate change

Jeremy Hance 26 Oct 2011

2010 Amazon drought released more carbon than India’s annual emissions

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2011

World’s newest nation faces prospect of famine

Jeremy Hance 6 Oct 2011

Photos: World Food Program works to save lives in East Africa famine

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2011

Climate change may fuel increase in warfare, finds study

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2011

Lessons from the world’s longest study of rainforest fragments

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2011

Famine spreads: 29,000 young children perish

Jeremy Hance 4 Aug 2011

Chart: US suffers record drought

Jeremy Hance 1 Aug 2011

Adaptation, justice and morality in a warming world

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2011

U.S. park to reopen after massive peat forest fires

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2011

Tens of thousands starving to death in East Africa

Jeremy Hance 20 Jul 2011

Amazon drought and forest fire prediction system devised

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2011

Global forests offset 16% of fossil fuel emissions

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jul 2011

Climate change and deforestation pose risk to Amazon rainforest

Karimeh Moukaddem 20 May 2011

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