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Director: Climate change 'right here'
Politico
“Climate change is something that is happening right here, happening now, not thousands of miles away or in the distant future,” Kalina told POLITICO. “And it's something that we just need a language to even understand what's going on around us because ...

Christian Science Monitor

Fighting climate change with nuclear energy
Christian Science Monitor
Nuclear power is currently the only carbon-free energy source that can provide base load electricity, Stepp writes, a characteristic crucial to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change. Next-generation nuclear energy offers ...

Enough is enough on climate change
Washington Post
Instead of focusing on public opinion polls, the president needs to act on the climate problem by pushing policies, regulations and laws that will reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions as expeditiously as possible. The time for pampering the ...

Kansas City Star

Climate change a threat to migratory birds, wildlife group says
Kansas City Star
McClatchy Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON — Climate change is altering and destroying important habitats that America's migratory birds depend on, the National Wildlife Federation said Tuesday in a report. Order Reprints. André Chung | MCT U.S. Fish ...

MIT Technology Review

Cleaning Up Diesel Trucks and Cooking Stoves Could Reduce Climate Change
MIT Technology Review
Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from the effects of climate change by selectively reducing the particulate pollution we produce. Recent research suggests that if we ...

The feds get seriously creepy about climate change
Grist
Well now, The Guardian's Earth Insight blogger, Nafeez Ahmed, presents this epic connect-the-dots game detailing how paranoid the feds are about how climate change and its attendant calamities could disrupt the national political equilibrium ...

EarthFix

Corps of Engineers won't review climate change impacts of Northwest coal exports
MiamiHerald.com
WASHINGTON -- The U.S Army Corps of Engineers will not review the broader climate-change impacts of proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest, an agency official told Congress on Tuesday. The much-anticipated decision was a significant ...

Selectively Targeting Aerosol Pollutants Could Reduce Climate Change
MIT Technology Review
Cutting our overall use of fossil fuels has proved a daunting challenge, but it might be possible to get some relief from the effects of climate change by selectively reducing the particulate pollution we produce. Recent research suggests that if we ...

What to do about climate change
Washington Post
Yet international climate negotiations have floundered. Many Americans and their representatives in Congress still doubt climate change is a problem worth addressing. And as the developing world advances, its peoples are polluting more to obtain higher ...

Fighting global climate change at the local level
Minnesota Public Radio
"Fighting climate change and improving our environment" are the No. 1 issue facing Minneapolis leadership, says City Council Member Cam Gordon. "It is time for Minneapolis to lead in curbing climate change and be a model environmental sustainability ...

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