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John Kerry signs Paris Climate Agreement holding granddaughter

John Kerry wants us to respect US democracy — by voting for a cleaner planet

Climate Change

In his new book, “Every Day Is Extra,” former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry writes about his formative childhood years, his legislative and diplomatic work on climate change, and more.

Rajendra Pachauri, then chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations European headquarters, 2012.

A former UN climate chief’s promotion has set off renewed fury over sexual harassment allegations in India

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The MV Akademik Shokalskiy got caught in encroaching ice off Antarctica in late December of 2013. The Russian ship's 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby icebreaker more than a week later.

In looking back at this year’s environmental news there’s a lot of doom and gloom — but not entirely

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The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the rapidly growing impacts and risks of climate change, including threats to agriculture, crucial ecosystems and urban areas.

UN scientists tell us, ready or not, here comes climate change

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The latest report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the rapidly growing impacts and risks of climate change, including threats to agriculture, crucial ecosystems and urban areas.

UN scientists tell us, ready or not, here comes climate change

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Hurricane Sandy is seen moving towards the east coast of the United States on October 29, 2012.

In the year since Sandy, scientists grow more certain on reality of climate change

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A year after superstorm Sandy brought home the growing dangers of climate change, scientists are more sure than ever that global warming is already underway. But AP science writer Seth Borenstein tells host Marco Werman they’re less clear on some of the specifics, especially related to Sandy itself.

A truck drives through water pushed over a road by Hurricane Sandy in Southampton, New York, October 29, 2012.

Despite near certainty in new UN report, a climate of denial persists

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Friday’s release of a major UN report on climate change shows scientists are about as sure as they could possibly be that global warming is real, and that humans are in large part responsible. And yet denial of the crisis persists.

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Global Forecast: Stormy Weather

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The news about climate change comes rather like snowflakes in a blizzard-from all directions at once, and accumulating in such overwhelming amounts and impact that it can be hard to know where to start digging out […]

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