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Glaciers around the world are retreating as the climate warms. NASA tracked a retreat of 3 kilometers (2 miles) of Argentina's Upsala glacier, in Patagonia, between 2001 and 2013. A new anaysis of global temperature data from the Japan Meteorological Agen

Winter may be knocking on your window, but 2014 was the warmest on record

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A finding that 2014 beat out 1998 as the earth’s warmest year on record should put an end to speculation that global warming has stopped. And the record hot temperatures came without the usual assist from El Niño.

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