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This July 2016 file photo shows a group of first-year honeybee hives in a pasture near Langley, Wash. Chemicals are routinely applied to kill insect pests and troublesome weeds but many are indiscriminate, devastating beneficial insects in the process. Landowners should avoid using pesticides in areas attractive to pollinators and instead use non-toxic methods to get rid of such pests as aphids.
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Pollinators

Backyard gardeners can act to help bee populations

Pesticide contamination of lawns, gardens and waterways is widespread, and even at sub-lethal levels can impact pollinators’ foraging ability and hive productivity.

Feb 19, 2020 at 3:35 AM
In this January photo provided by Nekton, a diver helps a crew member onboard the 'Limiting Factor' submarine for part of sea trials of the Nekton Mission that begins in mid-March. A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean into a 'Midnight Zone' where light barely reaches, but life still thrives.
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Scientists prepare for dive into ocean's 'Midnight Zone'

A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean — into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches but life still thrives.

Feb 5, 2020 at 4:49 AM
In this Nov. 1, 2019, fphoto, flames from a backfire consume a hillside as firefighters battle the Maria Fire in Santa Paula, Calif. The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday.
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climate change

2010s by far the hottest decade on record

The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday.

Jan 16, 2020 at 2:52 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives for a news conference at the COP25 summit in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. A last-minute venue change and talk of climate tipping points are adding some unplanned drama to this year’s international talks on tackling global warming in Madrid. (AP Photo/Paul White)
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climate change

UN chief warns of 'point of no return' on climate change

Speaking before the start Monday of a two-week international climate conference in Madrid, the U.N. chief said the impact of rising temperatures — including more extreme weather — is already being felt around the world, with dramatic consequences for humans and other species.

Dec 2, 2019 at 10:38 AM
In this Nov. 14, photo provided by John Guillote and taken from an aerial drone shows the U.S. research vessel Sikuliaq as it makes its way through sea ice in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast.
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climate change

Alaska towns' needed sea ice delayed by warm ocean

Communities north and south of the Bering Strait rely on near-shore ice for a natural sea wall, plus sea ice acts a platform from which to catch crab or cod, a transportation corridor between villages and a work station on which to butcher walrus.

Nov 20, 2019 at 1:22 AM
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said the Green New Deal would have killed coal in 10 years.
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Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance

Roe, Moore Capito: 'Green New Deal' would have killed coal

KINGSPORT – The so-called “Green New Deal” would have killed coal and severely burdened the U.S. economy, two Republican members of Congress told about 200 coal industry leaders at the 40th conference of the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance on Monday.

May 20, 2019 at 5:30 PM
French foreign minister and President of the COP21 Laurent Fabius, center, applauds while United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, and French President Francois Hiollande applaud after the final conference of the COP21, the United Nations conference on climate change, in Le Bourget, north of Paris, Saturday, Dec.12, 2015. Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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climate change

Historic pact to slow global warming celebrated in Paris

Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t.

Dec 12, 2015 at 7:05 PM
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2014 file photo, demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People's Climate March. Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming. Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And that is keeping the American public from demanding and getting the changes that climate scientists say are necessary to prevent global warming from reaching a crisis, social scientists say. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
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As scientists worry about warming world, U.S. public doesn't

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming.

Updated Nov 3, 2015 at 8:21 PM