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Scientists Warn of Heat Risk to High-School Football Players

Most high school football players who die from heat-related illness are overweight, in the first weeks of practice, and on the field in the morning, when the humidity is high and coaches take cooler temperatures for granted, researchers said on Thursday.
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Global Warming Doomsters' Theories Wrong, Says NASA Study

Global warming proponents can catch up on the sleep they lost worrying about the planet getting hotter with each passing day. A NASA study which analyzes satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011, published in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing, reports that Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than global warming proponents' computer models have predicted.
Coreth rides his life size ice polar bear in Circular Quay in central Sydney

2007 Arctic Fire Released Reflected Rapid Warming: Study

A 2007 wildfire in northern Alaska released as much carbon as the entire Arctic tundra absorbs in one year, scientists said. The Anaktuvuk River fire spanned 400 sq miles and doubled the amount of Alaskan tundra affected by fire since 1950.
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Global Warming to Flame Wildfires at Yellowstone: Study

Global warming will cause more wildfires at Yellowstone National Park. The combination of the wildfires and rising temperature will fundamentally change the ecosystem at Yellowstone, possibly by as soon as 2050, according to a new study led by Professor Anthony Westerling of the University of California, Merced.
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Climate Change a Global Security Issue: Australian Official

Richard Marles, the Australian government's Parliamentary Secretary for the Pacific, warned the United Nations Wednesday of rising sea levels and their impact on low-lying islands and asked them to include climate change as a global security issue.
People watch a melting ice polar bear at Circular Quay in central Sydney

Climate Change Will Bring 'Sudden and Abrupt' Shocks Worldwide: U.N. Expert

A senior United Nations official warned that climate change could become a catalyst for sudden and abrupt shocks worldwide and have far-reaching implications for global stability and security. Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environmental Program, told the U.N. Security Council Wednesday that natural resources are at risk.
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Earth's Internal Heat - A Ground-Mover

About 50 percent of the Earth's internal heat stems from a radioactive decay process, a new study has found, and it's strong enough to literally move the ground under your feet.
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Best Climate Change Remedy? More Trees, Study Says

Forget wind power and extra efficient lightbulbs -- trees are an incredibly effective climate change weapon given the amount of greenhouse gases they absorb, according to a new study in the journal Science.
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Climate scientists to use robots in Indian Ocean

Climate scientists have turned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy robotic measuring devices in the Indian Ocean where pirates have made the area too dangerous for researchers.
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La Niña Causing Heat Wave, But What is it Exactly?

The heat wave and debilitating drought affecting more than a dozen states has people asking a common question in this season of extreme weather: why? The answer is likely a weather phenomenon called La Niña.
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Scorcher! Several States See Record Heat in June

The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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