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Record number of billion-dollar disasters globally in 2013
Despite the high number of multi-billion dollar disasters last year, the overall loss of life and property were comparatively low to years past.
Brian Kahn

Feb 6, 2014

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Climate change could double likelihood of super El Ninos
Climate change could increase the number of El Niños, and particularly strong “super” El Niños could occur twice as frequently in a warming world.
Brian Kahn

Jan 20, 2014

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Graph of the Day: US energy emissions rise in 2013
For the first time in three years, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions related to energy increased in 2013 as coal replaced gas.
Bobby Magill

Jan 15, 2014

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60 Minutes hit job on clean energy ignores the facts
Clean technology appears to be booming, but you would never know that from an absurd 60 Minutes piece touting an imaginary “Cleantech Crash.”
Joe Romm

Jan 7, 2014

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Policy & Planning

Tony Abbott’s Christmas hit list on climate and clean energy
Conservative governments used the last week of parliament to renew their attack on the carbon price, clean energy and climate bodies. They also pushed through approvals for coal mines, brown coal exports, dredging the barrier reef, and delisting the Murray Basin. But not all went to plan.
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath

Dec 13, 2013

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Study debunks IPCC report, calls for more severe carbon budget
A new study by an interdisciplinary group of scientists and economists has led to calls for more severe emissions cuts, and a tighter carbon budget.
Andrew Freedman

Dec 5, 2013

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Gradual climate changes could cause sudden impacts
Abrupt shifts in climate have already begun, with more possible by end of century, according to a report released by the National Research Council.
Brian Kahn

Dec 4, 2013

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US methane emissions could be 5 times worse than thought
The oil and gas industry, largely in the south-central U.S., may be emitting nearly five times the methane that scientists previously estimated.
Bobby Magill

Nov 26, 2013

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Environment groups walk out of Warsaw climate talks
In an unprecedented move, leading environmental NGOs have walked out of the UN climate talks in Warsaw, saying they had had enough of the “coal COP”
Graham Readfearn

Nov 22, 2013

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Australia reputation hits new low over t-shirt climate diplomacy
Australia’s reputation hits a new low as poor nations take offence over its hardline attitude and negotiating behaviour. It may be grandstanding, but Australia has set itself up as the whipping boy of international climate politics. Meanwhile, Poland sacks its environment minister, who had been getting in the way of shale gas development.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 21, 2013

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Electricity generated using solar mirrors to double in 2013
The two biggest solar thermal power plants in California that will be operating by the end of the year could power more than 200,000 homes in the Southwest.
Bobby Magill

Nov 18, 2013

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How a $12k electric car could be future of US urban market
In what may be a prelude of the future urban market, a Detroit-based manufacturer named EcoV Electric is offering an electric vehicle for just under $12,000.
Jeff Spross

Nov 11, 2013

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