Ansel Adams: Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn. The Guardian

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn

The Guardian

Al Gore - Here’s THE Inconvenient Truth: Stopping the Fossil Fuel Mercenary Hoards would take literally hundreds of thousands of militant, unviolent citizens, risking all they have, and all they are to stop them, NOW, 2014... And neither I, nor anyone else, loves our children, or creation, enough to do that.

In "The Sixth Extinction," Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world. grist.org

Earth Tribe - Activist News via Stop the dumping of dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico.

In "The Sixth Extinction," Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the frontlines of a dying world

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The New Yorker writer talks mass extinctions, climate inaction, and whether there's any hope (short answer: no. long answer: probably not).

***** READ. Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era. Guardian

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The crisis of civilisation is an unprecedented opportunity | Nafeez Ahmed

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Nafeez Ahmed: Converging climate, energy, and economic crises signal the potential to transition to a prosperous post-carbon era

***** MUST READ. From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels | Nafeez Ahmed

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Nafeez Ahmed: From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

pic. National Geographic's map of rising seas paints a terrifying picture.

Start Loving shared An Inconvenient Truth's photo.

National Geographic's map of rising seas paints a terrifying picture.

pic. The American Dream - did you think Creation was Destroying Itself?

Climate change brings more crime. Los Angeles Times

Climate change brings more crime

Los Angeles Times

RECORD LOW. Arctic Sea Ice Sits at Record Low for Mid-February | Climate Central climatecentral.org

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RECORD LOW

Arctic Sea Ice Sits at Record Low for Mid-February | Climate Central

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Arctic sea ice is at a record low for this time of year due to warm air and water temperatures.

Melting Ice Makes The Arctic A Much Worse Heat-Magnet Than Scientists Feared. thinkprogress.org

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Global warming is destroying one of our best defenses against...global warming?

Melting Ice Makes The Arctic A Much Worse Heat-Magnet Than Scientists Feared

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Less Arctic sea ice means a warmer Arctic, which means less Arctic sea ice, which means an even warmer Arctic...

"About 80% of the world’s population will be wiped out by 2100 [by Fosil Fuels use]." James Lovelock World Renown Scientist. UK Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange

Nat Gas is 20-100X more warming than CO2. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been underestimating methane leaks from natural gas production and use by 25 to 75 percent

Yale Environment 360

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been underestimating methane leaks from natural gas production and use by 25 to 75 percent, according to a comprehensive assessment of more than 200 studies. When the methane leaks are accounted for, natural gas contributes to climate change more than industry and the EPA have claimed, the report concludes. http://bit.ly/1gFvPor

Marine Heatwaves Have Caused ‘Unprecedented’ Damage To Australian Coral thinkprogress.org

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Coral worldwide is at risk.

Marine Heatwaves Have Caused ‘Almost Unprecedented’ Damage To Australian Coral

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The damage to the 400-year-old coral has shocked researchers.

Arctic Autumns On Track To Warm A Staggering 23°F, NOAA Warns. thinkprogress.or

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A hot, hot arctic.

Arctic Autumns On Track To Warm A Staggering 23°F, NOAA Warns

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If you think the weather has been weird, the Arctic sea ice loss astounding, and the accelerating Greenland ice sheet loss worrisome with the modest Arctic warming we've had to date, well, buckle up, we're in for a bumpy...

Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict. Nicholas Stern. theguardian.com

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Warming Leads To Warfare http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/storms-floods-climate-change-upon-us-lord-stern

Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict

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Stern Review author says wettest and hottest years on record means world must take action now or face disaster

Olympians speak out on climate change as Sochi warms up usatoday.com

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Olympians are feeling the heat in Sochi!

Olympians speak out on climate change as Sochi warms up

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More than 100 winter Olympians, led by Americans, have signed a petition urging world leaders to fight climate change as balmy weather wreaks havoc at the Sochi Games.

Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic. Now www.truth-out.org

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'Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now'

Great article by Robert Jensen

Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now

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A calm apocalypticism is not crazy, but rather can help us confront honestly the crises of our time.

Massive Pipeline Spill Kept Under Wraps For 5 Years. huffingtonpost.ca

Wild Idaho Rising Tide

No place is too far for TransCanada to secretly ravage, so close to the intriguingly intricate wetlands of the Hay-Zama Lake Wildland (http://goo.gl/maps/ZGTM8).

Massive Pipeline Spill Kept Under Wraps For 5 Years

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A CBC News investigation has unearthed a critical report that the federal regulator effectively buried for several years about a rupture on a trouble-prone TransCanada natural gas pipeline. On July 20, 2009, the...

Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’ thinkprogress.org

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Oceans can't bear the brunt forever.

Climatologist: When Souped-Up Ocean Warming Ends, ‘Global Temperatures Look Set To Rise Rapidly’

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Recently, surface temperatures haven't appear to warm as fast as expected — although the oceans have, while Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Antarctica have melted faster than expected. New research finds the slowdown is due to