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eSci: Fukushima, A River Runs Through It

A river of groundwater, 450 tons per day, is running through Fukushima Daiichi Units 1-4 according to calculations made by Asahi Shinbun. The water is interacting with water contaminated by the melted...

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Fracking Hits Home in NC, We Fight Back (Fracking Causes Quakes)

Imagine developers want to frack gas, near a nuclear power plant, and many geological faults less than 20 miles from where you live. Imagine your town gets water from a river that flows through the...

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Giant Crack Found in Antarctic Glacier that Calved Just 4 Years Ago

NASA investigators discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island glacier in Antarctica that indicates an enormous iceberg with an area of more than 300 square miles is about to form. The new iceberg...

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eSci: Oklahoma's Strongest Recorded Quake (M5.6) Likely Triggered by Oil &...

What caused the M5.6 Sunday Nov. 6 quake, the strongest earthquake in Oklahoma's history? Was it a random natural event? Was it directly caused by hydrofracturing (fracking) or oil and gas activities?...

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eSci: Greenhouse Warming led to Huge Fires & Ecosystem Collapse @ the End...

The most precise study yet of the the earth's most catastrophic extinction event, the end Permian, found that warming caused by natural releases of CO2 was greatly amplified by the collapse of...

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eSci: "Global Cooling Assured for the Next 3 Decades"

Three decades of global cooling was the bold prediction made by geology professor Don Easterbrook on Anthony Watt's Weblog award winning climate change denier web site. Unlike most of the posts on...

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Nuclear Regulatory Meltdown: Four NRC Commisioners Conspire with Republicans...

Four commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission attempted to delay the Commission's response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear emergency, to cover up the severity of the incident and to weaken...

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eSci: New Cause of Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Found

A fly known to parasitize American bumble bees and wasps has recently been discovered parasitizing California honey bees, causing bees to abandon their colonies in the night. The investigators, who...

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Sea Ice Death Spiral Driving Atlantic Water into Arctic Causing Wild Weather

Flowers are blooming in England in January more than a month early. The Vail, Colorado ski resort has  no natural snow for the first time in 30 years of operation while Homer Alaska had over 15 feet...

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eSci: Fault Networks Capable of Large Quakes Identified Across Central U.S.

A large area of the midcontinent region of North America may be capable of producing devastating earthquakes like the ones that happened 200 years ago in New Madrid, Missouri according to preliminary...

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NASA: 130 years of global warming in 30 seconds

NASA has produced a stunning 27 second video that maps earth's temperature for the past 130 years. The rapid warming for the past 30 years concentrated in the Arctic is shocking. The rapid warming in...

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Pythons Invade Everglades Devastating Mammals, Range Expanding Rapidly

Burmese Pythons as large as 20 feet lone have escaped from captivity, invaded the Everglades, and wiped out populations of mid-sized mammals. Python populations have expanded rapidly to nearly all of...

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Climate Emergency: 2 Million Mexicans Have No Water & Drought Expanding...

Two million people have no water. Crops are wiped out in the northern half of the country. The worst drought in Mexico's history is likely to worsen until summer rains come devastating the northern...

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Sea Ice Collapse Links to Deadly Weather and Irreversible Climate Change

Scientists studying the Arctic are stunned at the rapid disappearance of sea ice and prolonged record high temperatures on the Atlantic side of the Arctic ocean which have occurred simultaneously with...

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AP Verifies Denialgate Docs, Oily Scam to Teach Lies about Climate Science in...

The Associated Press has verified the authenticity of leaked documents that show a leading conservative organization, the Heartland Institute, schemed to propagandize school children into becoming...

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eSci: Global Cooling - Record Cold Jan-Mar 2012

Global lower stratospheric temperatures in January to March 2012 were the coldest ever measured (by satellites) according to Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). A cooling lower stratosphere is strong...

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Global Ecosystem "is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition" Warn...

When disturbance of local ecosystems exceeds 50% they may suddenly collapse into simpler, less biodiverse systems with the loss of many species. An interdisciplinary team of scientists published a...

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Bee Collapse Triggered by Parasitic Mite Transformed Virus

An invasive parasitic mite has transformed an apparently harmless virus into a global destroyer of honey bee colonies. A new report in Science chronicles the catastrophic effects of the accidental...

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Shocking Interglacial Shift to Hot Arctic Tied to Rapid Antarctic Ice Melt

Stunning spikes of Arctic heat in interglacial periods, far warmer than predicted by existing climate models, may be caused by rapid melting of Antarctic ice. The ocean overturning circulation around...

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Drought Disaster Declared in 1016 Counties in 26 States by USDA

Withering severe to extreme drought, covering most of the southern two-thirds of the United States, has led the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make its largest disaster declaration ever. Extensive...

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Updated: Greenland Heat, Melting & Darkening Stuns Scientists as Ice Goes...

Greenland Ice Darkening Dark surface of Greenland icecap in summer, photo by Jason Box, PhD. The ends of the ice ages were triggered when earth's wobble placed the Arctic in position to receive...

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NASA Made up 150 year melt cycles; NY Times Slammed NASA for "Unprecedented"...

NASA's press release on the stunning melt event in Greenland where 97% of the surface melted (Note: not mass or volume. A relatively thin layer melted.) downplayed the severity of the event by...

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Greenland Mega-Melt Smashes Records, Temps Likely Warmest in 1000 Years

Far more ice has melted on Greenland's this year than before in the history of melt measurements. Measuring the amount of melting precisely is challenging, but scientists studying Greenland have found...

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Climate SOS! Witnessing the Outer Banks Drown & Drawing the Line at 20ft Sea...

At the height of hurricane season in September I join the annual migration of a group of surfers to Cape Hatteras to catch the swells. One of the popular, well known surf spots we go is named S Turns,...

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eSci: Arctic Glow-in-the-Dark Clouds Spreading South Linked to Increasing...

Pearlescent blue clouds mysteriously appeared in far northern latitudes after the eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. Perhaps these noctilucent clouds existed before the massive eruption threw enormous...

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eSci: "Planetary Emergency" New 2012 Arctic Sea Ice Record 18% Below 2007 Low

Arctic sea ice extent bottomed out at 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles) on September 16, smashing the old record minimum of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square...

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Updated: Hurricane Sandy likely to hit mid Atlantic - could be "Perfect Storm"

NHC's 5pm forecast brings Sandy into the Jersey shore Tuesday morning then inland to Pennsylvania by Tuesday evening. Sandy's strongest winds, storm surge and waves could affect highly populated...

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Jump in Sea Level Slams U.S. East Coast

Hurricane Sandy and a series of noreasters have combined with an apparently unprecedented one year jump in sea level to cause a wave of destruction on the U.S. east coast. The one year change of the...

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Unprecedented Arctic Ice Loss in 2012 & Video "Like watching Manhattan break up"

2012 was a year of unprecedented melting across the Arctic. The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on earth and the consequences are shocking. Sea ice area and volume plummeted to the...

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The Strange Failed El Niño & the Deepening Drought Disaster

Following two years of cold water in the equatorial Pacific ocean, the next year is almost always a warm, El Niño event. Not this time. A weak surge of warm water along the west coast of the Americas...

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The Gulf Stream Stalled, Sea Level Rose & the East Coast Flooded in November...

November, 19, 2012, Rodanthe, Outer Banks, NC cut off by abnormally high tidesThe Gulf Stream has been weakening continuously since 2004, accelerating sea level rise on the U.S. east coast, with the...

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Lakes Michigan & Huron at Record Low Levels

Low Water Levels at Old Mission Point Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, July, 2000.Lakes Michigan and Huron fell to record low levels, the Army Corps of Engineers announced today. Despite recent rains, water...

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The Winter the Polar Vortex Collapsed

The polar vortex was persistently weak from November 2012 through March 2013. At the peak of winter, in mid-January, the polar vortex was split in two by a massive sudden stratospheric warming. Instead...

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Hanford's Radwaste Tanks Leaking & Explosive, Waste Treament Plant Unsafe:...

The Hanford, Washington High-Level Waste Facility viewed from the Pretreatment Facility.The highly radioactive dregs of WWII and cold war bomb-making continue to evolve explosive hydrogen gas, corrode...

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The Antarctic Half of the Global Thermohaline Circulation Is Faltering

The sudden cooling of Europe, triggered by collapse of the global thermohaline circulation in the north Atlantic and the slowing of the Gulf Stream has been popularized by the movies and the media....

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#NOKXL Over 1 Million Comments! Earth Is Near the Planetary Habitable Zone Limit

The earth is perilously close to becoming an uninhabitable wet greenhouse planet where water escapes to space from a wet stratosphere. A ten fold increase in CO2 from pre-industrial levels would bring...

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Recent Temps Highest in 1400 Years, Reversed 2000 Years of Cooling

The largest consortium of scientists ever assembled to work on the climate of the past 2000 years combined detailed regional data sets and analyses to make an systematic analysis of climate change over...

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New Mexico Faces Disaster as Extreme Drought Intensifies West of the 100th...

The rains stopped. Two years of drought led to record fires in Arizona and New Mexico, then the rains stopped completely as New Mexico entered its third year of drought. This week New Mexico faces...

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The New Dust Bowl: High Plains Aquifer Pumped Dry

Water Levels in the High Plains Aquifer have Dropped Over 200 feet in Texas & Kansas Three years of extreme drought, amplified by climate change, and decades of excessive withdrawal of groundwater...

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Russian Arctic Researchers Await Rescue on Shattered Sea Ice Battered by Storms

A strong Arctic storm is endangering Russian scientists who have been studying the Arctic from a research station anchored to moving Arctic sea ice. The Arctic ocean's surface is starting to resemble a...

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The N Hemisphere's Atmospheric Circulation Has Collapsed Creating a...

500mb heights Normal for May 21 to June 6; 1980-2010 Average500mb heights for May 21 to June 6 2013A sudden stratospheric warming split the polar vortex in two in mid-January. Since then, the northern...

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Arctic Methane found at "Amazing Levels" by NASA

NASA CARVE scientists observed episodic, localized bursts of methane being emitted from the tundra as the spring thaw progressed northward over Alaska's North Slope in May and June 2012. Reds and...

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NOAA Investigation Finds Massive Methane Emissions from Utah Fracking: 6% to...

Thousands of gas wells have been drilled in Utah's Uintah basin. An investigation by NOAA & CIRES found that 6% to 12% of the gas produced near Ouray (by hydrofracturing) escaped to the atmosphere...

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The Oceans are Dying: Oxygen is Depleting, Acidity Rising at Fastest Rate in...

Oxygen levels are dropping and ocean waters are acidifying at the fastest rate in at least 300 million years when the greatest marine extinction in earth's history took place according to The State of...

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Warming Climate Will Reduce Low Cloudiness Amplifying GHG Warming; Skeptics'...

Low clouds cool coastal California. New, improved climate modeling shows that low cloudiness will decrease as GHGs warm the climate. The reduction in low clouds will amplify the warming in California...

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Hungry Polar Bears Eating Eggs, Decimating Nesting Birds, as Sea Ice Declines

Three polar bears strip a nesting bird colony of eggs. The Arctic is the fastest warming region on earth. The polar bear, the iconic large mammal of the Arctic, is threatened by the warming-caused loss...

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Extraordinary N Atlantic Storms Driving Gulf Stream Water into Arctic, Sea...

Extraordinarily warm water, as much as 10°F above normal, has entered the Barents sea on the Atlantic side of the Arctic. Sea ice is melting in February in response to the incursion of warm water that...

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Huge Wave in Pacific Ocean About to Hit West Coast Will Have Global Impacts

An enormous wave now centered at 500 feet deep along the equator south of Hawaii is silently moving below the surface towards the west coast of the Americas.This wave, called a Kelvin wave, took four...

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42 Quakes M2.5+ Rock Oklahoma & S Kansas in 7 Days: 17% of world's earthquakes

Oklahoma and south Kansas had seventeen percent of the world's earthquakes M2.5 or greater in the past 7 days as of noon Oct. 16, 2015. Deep well injection of oil and gas waste has turned a seismically...

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155 mph Cyclone Chapala, 2nd strongest ever in Arabian sea, Unprecedented...

155mph tropical cyclone Chapala, the second strongest on record in the Arabian sea threatens Yemen with huge amounts of rain, winds and surging seas. Chapala is the strongest tropical cyclone ever in...

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