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Even with no El Nino, 2014 was the warmest year on record

Ocean’s 15: meet the species that have vanished forever from our seas

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

Video: global carbon dispersal looks like an impressionistic painting in motion

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Is the world moving backwards on protected areas?

Can we stop runaway global warming? ‘All we need is the will to change’

The only solution for polar bears: ‘stop the rise in CO2 and other greenhouse gases’

Leonard DiCaprio to UN Climate Summit: ‘You can make history or you will be vilified by it’

Climate coup: Rockefeller announces they are dropping fossil fuel investments

Chinese now emit more carbon per capita than Europeans

World population could surpass 13 BILLION by the end of the century

Next big idea in forest conservation? Harness the power of marketing

‘We are running out of time’: CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere surprise scientists

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

13 newly-discovered birds declared extinct

Biomass burning accounts for 18% of CO2 emissions, kills a quarter of a million people annually

It’s not just extinction: meet defaunation

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

April 2014: 350th month in a row with temperatures above average

Turning point? U.S. and China announce major actions on global warming

Extinction rates are 1,000x the background rate, but it’s not all gloomy

Climate change’s ominous secret

Tipping point already reached? West Antarctica in slow-motion, unstoppable melt

Stanford kicks coal out of its $18 billion endowment

Next big idea in forest conservation? Maps for the masses

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