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Climate-Related Disasters Make It Harder to Buy Home Insurance in California
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California's insurance commissioner says home insurance rates are likely to go up. Companies have already filed rate hike requests to start recouping some of the costs of last fall's wildfires.
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It's Not About the Facts: The Irrational Fight Over Climate Change Explained in One Cartoon
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Our story on eco-friendly cremation got slammed by Drudge Report readers after it appeared on the site. So we wondered: How is it that so many people reject what is known to be true?
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By 2045, Rising Seas Could Flood Thousands of Coastal Bay Area Homes
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Sea-level rise could swamp thousands of homes in the San Francisco Bay Area within 30 years, says a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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First-Ever Views of Manta Rays Swimming With Young
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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have stumbled on a manta ray nursery in protected waters off the coast of Texas – the first one in the world to be discovered.
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California Moves to Clear Coffee of Cancer-Risk Stigma
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California officials, having concluded coffee drinking is not a risky pastime, are proposing a regulation that will essentially tell consumers of America's favorite beverage they can drink up without fear.
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James Hansen Wishes He Wasn’t So Right About Global Warming
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In 1998, James Hansen proclaimed that global warming was already here. Until then most scientists merely warned of future warming. He left NASA in 2013, devoting more time to what he calls his “anti-government job” of advocacy.
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Stanford Pioneer in Brain Research Wins Prestigious Kyoto Prize
Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford University professor of bioengineering and psychiatry, has been awarded an international prize worth more than $900,000 for his work in illuminating brain activity with light.
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Marine Science Sunday: What Are Marine Mammals Saying?
Marine mammals make the craziest sounds! Come discover the unique sounds each marine mammal makes at the Marine Mammal Center in Saulsalito on Sunday, June 24 from 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. with special docent led tours and activities.
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