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Politics Feb 07
Iowa Democrats extend deadline for candidates to request review of resultsFollowing the party's release of new results late Thursday night, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by two state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted.
World Jan 15
The last decade was the hottest on record2019, the second-warmest year on record, capped off a decade plagued by raging wildfires, melting ice and extreme weather that researchers have repeatedly tied to human activity.
World Nov 04
U.S. tells UN it is officially leaving Paris climate dealSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he submitted a formal notice to the United Nations. That starts a withdrawal process that does not become official for one year.
Nation Oct 23
Tiny Midwestern bird ready to fly off the endangered species listThe interior least tern population has increased tenfold since 1985, to more than 18,000.
Science Oct 16
Scientists discover big storms can create ‘stormquakes’A stormquake is more an oddity than something that can hurt you, because no one is standing on the sea floor during a hurricane, said Wenyuan Fan, a Florida State University seismologist who was the study's lead author.
Politics Sep 07
NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claimWASHINGTON — Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump’s statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama. They say NOAA’s action…
World Aug 18
Funeral for lost ice: Iceland bids farewell to glacierWith poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier.
World Aug 16
‘Greenland is not for sale’ government responds to TrumpGreenland's government said it saw President Donald Trump's interest in buying the semiautonomous Danish territory as "interest in investing in our country."…
World Aug 16
NASA scientists fly over Greenland to track melting iceNASA researchers want to know whether the melting is being caused more by warm air or warm seawater. The answer could be crucial to Earth's future.
World Aug 08
United Nations predicts hungry future, due to global warming, that can be avoidedA new United Nations report examines how global warming and land interact in a vicious cycle. Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the land, while the way people use the land is making global warming worse.
