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The Web's Best Climate Articles, By Month

May 2021

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The Myths That Hint at Past Disasters. BBC Future

Holy Water: Miracle Accounts and Proxy Data Tell a Climate Story. Eos

We Found a Secret History of Megadroughts Written in Tree Rings. The Wheatbelt’s Future May be Drier Than We Thought. The Conversation.

March and April 2021

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Grist / Shana Novak / Getty Images

Did Climate Change Cause Societies to Collapse? New Research Upends the Old Story. Grist

‘Our Biggest Challenge? Lack of Imagination’: The Scientists Turning the Desert Green. The Guardian

How Early Sci-Fi Authors Imagined Climate Change. JSTOR Daily

1848: Floods in Adelaide. Climate History Australia
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Japan’s Kyoto Cherry Blossoms Peak on Earliest Date in 1,200 years, a Sign of Climate Change. Washington Post    

February 2021

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Dust on the Wind. Eos

How Indigenous Oral Tradition Is Guiding Archaeology and Uncovering Climate History in Alaska. Discover

Climate Change and the Humanities: A Historical Perspective. Items

Historical Climate Data Can Improve Our Assessment of Future Climate Risk. Climate History Australia
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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record. The Atlantic    

December 2020 and January 2021

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Preserving Cultural and Historic Treasures in a Changing Climate May Mean Transforming Them. The Conversation

Can We Restore Nature? Aeon

Will Humans Ever Reverse Climate Change? The Science of Fiction
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The Marshall Islands Could be Wiped Out by Climate Change – and their Colonial History Limits their Ability to Save Themselves. The Conversation    

November 2020

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Frederic Edwin Church, Icebergs Floating in an Ocean. Dallas Museum of Art, 1861.

The Climate Clues Hidden in Art History. BBC Culture

Equality has Always Been the Best Remedy Against Famine. University of Oslo

Historical Climate Data Can Improve Our Assessment of Future Climate Risk. Climate History Australia
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Ancient Maya Built Sophisticated Water Filters. The Phys.org    

September and October 2020

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Can Voting Stop Global Warming? AHA Perspectives

Listening to What Trees Have to Say. Edge Effects

Understanding Resilience in the History of Climate Change. Atlas Obscura
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Double Whammy Doomed Madagascar’s Giant Birds and Mammals. The Science    

August 2020

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Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, South Atlantic Ocean, 1884.

See the Soft Aquarelle Watercolors That Resulted From Krakatoa’s Big Bang. Atlas Obscura

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In 1674, a Mysterious Storm Devastated an Entire City. BBC Earth

Warming Greenland Ice Sheet Passes Point of No Return. Phys.org

Half a Century of Dither and Denial - a Climate Crisis Timeline. The Guardian

​Ancient Genomes Suggest Woolly Rhinos Went Extinct Due to Climate Change, Not Overhunting Eurekalert!    

June 2020

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Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. Johann Georg Platzer, 1730-1761.

Ancient Rome Was Teetering. Then a Volcano Erupted 6,000 Miles Away. New York Times

Why Racial Justice is Climate Justice. Grist

We Dug up Australian Weather Records Back to 1838 and Found Snow is Falling Less Often. The Conversation

The Climate Change Clues Hidden in Art History. BBC Culture

May 2020

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Marie Byrd Land, from a NASA DC-8. Photo credit: Michael Studinger.

Telling Time in Antarctica. Environmental History Now

New York City Doesn’t Have to Suffer This Summer. New York Times

Visualizing Science: How Color Determines What We See. Eos
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Predicting Future Climate Change May Lie in the Past. The Globe and Mail

​Tunnel Vision: Lessons in the Impermanence of Permafrost. Undark Magazine    

April 2020

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Ground once covered by the Lendbreen ice patch in Norway. Photo credit: Espen Finstad.

Lost Viking "Highway" Revealed by Melting Ice. National Geographic

Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner. New York Times

Di­verse Live­li­hoods Helped Re­si­li­ent Levän­luhta People Sur­vive a Cli­mate Dis­as­ter. University of Helsinki 

March 2020

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Aztec. Reclining Jaguar, 1400-1521. Brooklyn Museum.

How Artwork Shows the Impact of Climate Crisis on Indigenous Americans. The Guardian    

What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change. New York Times

A Change of Perspective: Visiting the Places of Your Research. NiCHE

Climate Change Has Lessons for Fighting the Coronavirus. New York Times

February 2020

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Bangladesh from space. NASA

Climate Change Impacts in Bangladesh Show How Geography, Wealth and Culture Affect Vulnerability. The Conversation

A Crisis Right Now: San Fransisco and Manila Face Rising Seas. New York Times

Ancient Mud Reveals an Explanation for Sudden Collapse of the Mayan Empire. Get Pocket

​Methane is a Hard-Hitting Greenhouse Gas. Now Scientists Say We’ve Dramatically Underestimated How Much We’re Emitting. Washington Post    

January 2020

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Wind turbines in Xinjiang. Photo credit: Chris Lim.

Emissions - The "Business As Usual" Story is Misleading. Nature

Earth's Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to "Big Thaw." Science Daily

Early Climate Models Successfully Predicted Global Warming. Washington Post

​Why Trees Are the Most Reliable Historians of Early America. Atlas Obscura    

December, 2019

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Climate Tipping Points - Too Risky to Bet Against. Nature

One of Europe’s Worst Famines Likely Caused by Devastating Floods. GeoSpace

Ghosts of the Future. ​Washington Post

November, 2019

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Little Ice Age Lessons. Aeon Magazine

The Ghosts of Ancient Hurricanes Live in Caribbean Blue Holes. National Geographic

The Planet is Burning. Aeon Magazine

Human Activities are Drying Out the Amazon: NASA Study. NASA JPL
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We're Doomed. Now What? The Walrus   

October, 2019

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Robert Falcon's doomed ship, Terra Nova.

Decades of Detailed Weather Reports Pulled from Old Sailors' Logs. National Geographic

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​The Power of Fear in the Thawing Arctic. The Atlantic   

Old Weather “Time Machine” Opens a Treasure Trove for Researchers. NOAA Research News

Scientists Struggle to Access Africa's Historical Climate Data. 2k Network

Why Universities Need to Declare an Ecological and Climate Emergency. Times Higher Education

September, 2019

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Climate Change Could Revive Medieval Megadroughts in US Southwest. ScienceDaily

The Dueling Weathermen of the 1800s. Nautilus

Unprecedented Warming. 2k Network

Later is Too Late: Paleosciences Must Be Integrated into Decision-Making for a Better Future. PAGES ECN
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Overcoming Ice and Stereotypes at the Bottom of the World. Eos    

July and August, 2019

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Perth’s Southern Seawater Desalination Plant converts seawater from the Indian Ocean to drinking water, to meet more than half of Perth’s scheme water demand. Photograph by Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd, 2019.

Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s. Environment and Society Portal

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Ancient Plankton Help Researchers Predict Near-Future Climate. AGU Blogosphere

Trump's Shadow War on Climate Science. Foreign Policy
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Centuries-Old Whaling Logs Yield Clues for Modern-Day Climate Studies. Cape Cod Times

Unprecedented Warming. 2k Network
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Happy 200th Birthday to Eunice Foote, Hidden Climate Science Pioneer. NOAA Climate    

June 2019

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Spy Satellites Reveal Extent of Himalayan Glacier Loss. BBC News

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New Perspectives on 2,000 Years of North Atlantic Climate Change. Eos

Climate Change Visualized: How Earth's Temperature Has Changed Since 1970 Axios

NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years. NASA Global Climate Change

Am I a Denier, a Human Extinction Denier? Mike Hulme

​Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change? History News Network ​

May 2019

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Abraham Hondius, "The Frozen Thames, looking Eastwards towards Old London Bridge" (1677). The Museum of London.

Did European Colonisation Precipitate the Little Ice Age? Aeon

Did a Volcanic Eruption in 1783 Change the Climate in Europe? Eos

History for the Future? What the Past Reveals About the Warming Arctic. White Horse Press

Unraveling the History of El Niño Flavours. Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us. New York Times
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Why Century-Old Ship Logs are Key to Today’s Climate Research. The Verge  

April 2019

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Front side of Angkor Wat. Photo credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen.

Climate Change Helped Destroy These Four Ancient Civilisations. World Economic Forum

Europe's Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice. New York Times​

NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 years. EurekAlert!

February and March 2019

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Radical Plan To Artificially Cool Earth's Climate Could Be Safe, Study Finds. The Guardian

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The Forgotten Woman Who Discovered The Greenhouse Effect. NEXT

Until 1950, U.S. Weathermen Were Forbidden From Talking About Tornados. Atlas Obscura

Mapped: How Climate Change Affects Extreme Weather Around The World. CarbonBrief

​Yes, Humans Are Causing Climate Change. And We've Known About It For 40 Years. Popular Science    

January 2019

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Relief that may depict Naram-Sin at Darband-i-Gawr, celabrating his victory over Lullubi king Satuni. Iraqi Kurdistan.

How Climate Change Caused the World's First Ever Empire to Collapse. The Conversation

The Coming Climate Crisis. Foreign Policy

The Melting Arctic Is a Real-Time Horror Story — Why Doesn’t Anyone Care? Rolling Stone

The Last Time Humans Engineered the Climate, They Changed History. Axios

​A Frozen History of Climate Change. The Guardian    

December 2018

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Abraham Storck, "Walvisvangst bij de kust van Spitsbergen." Rijksmuseum, 1690.

Climate Change, Water, and the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic. Europe Now

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The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything. New York Times

Facing Floods in the Middle Ages. Europe Now

Why 536 was "The Worst Year to be Alive." Science Magazine
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Risks of 'Domino Effect' of Tipping Points Greater Than Thought, Study Says. The Guardian 

November 2018

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Storage room in the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver. Eric Cravens, Assistant Curator, National Ice Core Lab.

Archives of the Anthropocene. History Workshop

Tales from the Ice Age. History Today
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Winter Is Coming: Europe's Deep Freeze of 1709 National Geographic

Why 536 was "The Worst Year to be Alive." Science Magazine

​Interactive: How Climate Finance ‘Flows’ Around the World. Carbon Brief    

October 2018

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Sir Philip Sidney, 1554–1586

What Renaissance Literary Theory Tells Us about Climate Communication Medium    

The Earth's Memory Is Locked in Ancient Seafloor Muck. Earther

Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change. The Atlantic

How to Write About a Vanishing World. The New Yorker

How Much Hotter is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? NY Times

September 2018

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Petit-Trou-de-Nippes in the wake of Hurricane Flora, 1963.

Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice. NY Times

The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico. Rolling Stone

How Much Hotter is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? NY Times

​The Unlearned Lesson of Hurricane Maria: A Conversation with Stuart Schwartz. Edge Effects    

August 2018

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"The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena." Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society. London, Trubner & Co., 1888.

The Eruption Of Krakatoa Was The First Global Catastrophe. Forbes

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How Indigenous Knowledge Might Inform Our Response To Climate Change. Australian Geographic

When The World Was Cold: Five Questions For Dagomar Degroot. Undark Magazine

​Archaeologists Use Ancient Dirty Dishes To Reconstruct Climate Shifts. Ars Technica    

July 2018

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Howrah Bridge from the western bank of the Ganges. Credit: Debnathsonu1996.

Dry Weather Is Helping Archaeologists Discover Ancient Sites. The Economist

Dreaming of the Designer Climate: Inside the Controversy Surrounding the Question of Climate Engineering. The Otter

The City of my Birth is Becoming a Climate Casualty. New York Times

Climate Change is Supercharging a Hot and Dangerous Summer. Washington Post

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Global Warming May Be Twice What Climate Models Predict. Phys.org   

June 2018

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How Our Colonial Past Altered the Ecobalance of an Entire Planet. The Guardian

​Sam White, the Little Ice Age. Ben Franklin's World

​How Do We Process Doom-and-Gloom Climate News? How Should We? PRI

Here's Every Volcano that has Erupted Since Krakatoa. Axios

Newspaper Reports in Romania – What Do They Tell Us about Extreme Meteorological Events of the Early 19th Century? The Early Pages    

May 2018

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Orkhorn Valley, Mongolia. Credit: He-ba-mue.

How a Medieval Society Withstood Nearly 60 Years of Drought. The Atlantic

How Climate Change Affected the Outcome of a Roman War With the Goths. Forbes

Weather and Emotion in James Barry’s Diary, 1849-1906. NiCHE

Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years. National Geographic    

April 2018

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Faced With Drought, the Pharaohs Tried (and Failed) to Adapt. NY Times   

These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter. Gizmodo

Scientists Find Evidence of Paint, Complex Tools and Climate Chaos at the Dawn of Humanity. Washington Post

Trove of Documents Shows Historical Ferocity of Recent Storms. Boston Globe

11,000 Years Ago, Our Ancestors Survived Abrupt Climate Change. CNN

March 2018

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Willem Isaacszoon van Swanenburg, “De zeilwagen van Simon Stevin,” print, 1602, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Some Societies Flourished in the Little Ice Age. There Are Lessons For Us Now. Washington Post

The Frigid Golden Age. 
New Books Podcast

A Trip to a Museum for Convincing Americans About Climate Change. The Atlantic

Does Climate Change Cause More War? The Atlantic

The 100 Year Time-Lapse Project. Bifrost

North Korea’s ‘Millennium Eruption’ Flooded the Skies With Sulfur, But Left Little Climate Trace. Science Magazine

Which Works Better: Climate Fear, or Climate Hope? Well, it's Complicated. The Guardian    

February 2018

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A 1200-year-old arrow, found partly obscured by snow. Source: Espen Finstad, Secrets of the Ice, Oppland County Council.

Melting Glaciers Could Reveal How Our Ancestors Dealt With Changing Climates. National Geographic

​Meet the Amateur Scientist Who Discovered Climate Change. Wired

Seeking Answers on Climate Change, Scientists Venture Into the Vaults of the Past. Ensia

Memories and History: The 1998 Ice Storm. Nature

Climate Change and the Humanities: A Historical Perspective. Items

​The Three-Degree World: The Cities that Will be Drowned by Global Warming. The Guardian   

January 2018

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A radar map of Antarctica. Source: RADARSAT, NASA.

Rescued Radar Maps Reveal Antarctica's Past. Nature

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The Stilling: Global Wind Speeds Slowing Down Since 1960. Horizon

​Thinking About the Halifax Explosion in a Time of Climate Change. Acadiensis

How To Survive Climate Change? Clues Are Buried In The Arctic. NPR

Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish? Smithsonian Magazine

​Human Influence on Climate Led to Several Major Weather Extremes in 2016. Climate.gov 

December 2017

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Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. Source: Jeremy Harbeck.

Ice Apocalypse: Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century. Grist

What the First Thanksgiving can Teach Us About Adjusting to Climate Shock. The Washington Post.

Antarctica: The Ice Inferno. Aeon.

Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village. New York Times.

November 2017

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The pyramids at Giza.

​Volcanoes Helped Violent Revolts Erupt in Ancient Egypt. The NY Times

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Climate Change Might be Worse than Thought After Scientists Find Major Mistake in Water Temperature Readings. The Independent

An Icy Conquest. New York Review of Books

As Ice Retreats, Frozen Mosses Emerge to Tell Climate Change Tale. Science News

Extraordinary Antarctic Weather May Have Influenced Outcome of Early 20th Century Race to South Pole. AGU

Storms May Have Produced Most Mediterranean “Tsunami” Deposits. EOS    

October 2017

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William Ascroft’s watercolors show blood red sunsets seen visible over London in November 1883 in the aftermath of the August 1883 Krakatau eruption. Source: William Ascroft, "Twilight and Afterglow Effects at Chelsea, London. Nov. 26th 1883." The Eruption of Krakatoa and Subsequent Phenomena, edited by G. J. Symons et al. London: Trübner, 1888. (Used by permission, credit: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.)

Speculating About the Weather: The Unusual Dry Fog of 1783. NiCHE

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New Study Highlights "Hidden Figure" of Sun Watchers. AGU

Historical Data: Hidden in the Past. Nature Jobs

How Fashion Adapted to Climate Change – in the Little Ice Age. The Conversation

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World. OSU Origins

​We Charted Arctic Sea Ice for Nearly Every Day Since 1979. You’ll See a Trend. NY Times   

September 2017

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Blue Lake, Mount Gambier: a volcanic crater. Source: Thom Devereux, 2016.

When the Bullin Shrieked: Aboriginal Memories of Volcanic Eruptions Thousands of Years Ago. The Conversation

Frederic Tudor, the Ice King. How Stuff Works

Data Rescue Projects. RealClimate

Record-Shattering 2.7-million-year-old Ice Core Reveals Start of the Ice Ages. Science

August 2017

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Svalbard in the morning. Source: Benoit Lecavalier.

Arks of the Apocalypse. New York Times

This Cave Holds a Spectacular Record of 5,000 Years of Tsunamis. The Atlantic

Events in Iceland Explain Years of Famine in Europe’s Dark Ages. The Economist

​Major Correction to Satellite Data Shows 140% Faster Warming Since 1998. Carbon Brief

Masses of Beautiful Alabaster. Paris Review

​A History of Global Warming, In Just 35 Seconds. Climate Central    

July 2017

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Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810. Environment and Society Portal

​The Map Hidden in the Pacific Northwest’s Tree Rings. The Atlantic

Feeling the Heat: How Fish Are Migrating from Warming Waters. Yale Environment 360

Scientists Rescue Ice from Melting Bolivian Glacier – Before it Disappears. The Guardian

Collapse of the European Ice Sheet Caused Chaos. EurekAlert!

Global Warming Tipped Scales in Europe’s Heat Wave. Climate Central    

June 2017

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Agassiz glacier. Source: John Scurlock/U.S.G.S.

Mapping 50 Years of Melting Ice in Glacier National Park. New York Times

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“The great climate silence” and Historians. Active History

Shifting Winds Write Their History on a New Zealand Lake Bed. EOS

No, It's Not Reasonable to Doubt Climate Change. DagomarDegroot.com

The U.S. Is on a Historic Streak of Record Highs. Climate Central

​Climate Change is Turning Antarctica Green, Say Researchers. The Guardian    

May 2017

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Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893.

​Extraordinary Iridescent Clouds Inspire Munch’s ‘The Scream’. EGU Blogs

Climate and Migrations in Early Medieval Germany. Medieval Histories

A Monstrous Volcanic Eruption Gave Life To Frankenstein's Monster. Forbes

Iceberg 'Doodles' Trace Climate History. BBC Science

What Was the Most Significant Environmental Catastrophe of All Time? The Atlantic

How Old Spy Photos are Helping U.S. Scientists Study Climate Change. Vice News
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Angkor Wat's Collapse from Climate Change has Lessons for Today. National Geographic    

April 2017

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A Century-Old Arctic Shipwreck Could Help Us Predict Extreme Weather. FiveThirtyEight

​Making Peru's Sendero Luminoso: The Mega Niño of 1982-3. Age of Revolutions

I am an Arctic Researcher. Donald Trump is Deleting my Citations. The Guardian

The Seasons Aren't What They Used to Be. New York Times

Climate Change and the Next "Great Dying." The Atlantic

Nature, not Humans, Could be Cause of up to Half of Arctic Sea Ice Loss, Study Claims. The Independent

Explaining a 'Once-in-a-Billion-Year Event': A Perfect Storm of Fire and Ice May Have Led to Snowball Earth. Phys.org    

March 2017

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Source: Humboldt, Ein Naturgemälde der Anden (Chimborazo Map), 1805. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

How Artists and Scientists Have Pictured Volcanoes over 600 Years. Artsy

‘Shell Knew’: Oil Giant's 1991 Film Warned of Climate Change Danger. The Guardian

The Deluge of 628 AD and the Collapse of Ancient Iraq. Das Andere Mittelalter

California Megaflood: Lessons from a Forgotten Catastrophe. Scientific American

1,000 Years Ago, Corn Made This Society Big. Then, A Changing Climate Destroyed It. NPR
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Getting Warmer: Historians on Climate Change and the Anthropocene. Perspectives on History   

February 2017

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The Atomic Origins of Climate Science. The New Yorker

What's the Difference Between Climate and Weather? NOAA Climate

How Close Is 1.5°C? Depends When You Measure From. Climate Central

Date of Ancient Volcanic Eruption Finally Pinpointed Using Fossilised Tree Rings. The Guardian

Winter Is Coming: Europe’s Deep Freeze of 1709. National Geographic

​Scientists React to Earth’s Warmest Year: ‘We are Heading into a New Unknown.' Washington Post    

January 2017

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William Ascroft paints volcanic sunsets, 1883. Source: Manuscripts and Special Collections QE523.K7.

These Are the 10 Most Important Climate Stories of 2016. Climate Central

What Can a Medieval Climate Crisis Teach Us About Modern-Day Warming? The Guardian

Most of Greenland Ice Melted to Bedrock in Recent Geologic Past, Says Study. Science Daily

Mapping Three Decades of Global Water Change. New York Times

The 19th-Century Whaling Logbooks That Could Help Scientists Understand Climate Change. The Guardian

​Weather Exhibition Shows When the River Trent Froze Over. BBC News    

December 2016

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Source: Bern Burgerbibliothek, www.e-codices.unifr.ch

The Coldest Decade of the Millennium? How the Cold 1430s Led to Famine and Disease. EGU Blogs

Mysterious Volcanic Eruption of 1808 Described. Geology Page

A Trump Adviser Wants to Scale Back NASA’s Ability to Study Climate Change. Vox

Ice-Hot News: The “Oldest Ice” Quest has Begun. EGU Blogs

6,000 Years Ago the Sahara Desert was Tropical, so what Happened? Science Daily

​Huge Reduction in African Dust Plume Impacted Climate 11,000 Years Ago. Science Daily    

November 2016

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Lianne McNaughton in Tengger Desert, China. Source: Cameron McNaughton

Living in China's Expanding Deserts. New York Times

Year Without a Summer. Paris Review
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A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature. XKCD

A 1912 News Article Ominously Forecasted the Catastrophic Effects of Fossil Fuels on Climate Change. Quartz

Ancient Andes Glaciers Have Lost Half Their Ice in Just 40 years. New Scientist

​Climate Detectives: What a Historical Climatologist Does. Climate Snack    

October 2016

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Camp Century, 1959. Source: Credit: U.S. Army

The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently. Climate Central

A Vault to Preserve the World's Glaciers. CNRS News

A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature. XKCD

Melting Ice Could Reveal Toxic Cold War Era Waste in Greenland. Eos

Arctic Climate Change Revealed in a Luxury Cruise and Haunting Wreck. Dot Earth

​Conquest of Beijing: Hidden Contributions of Climate Change to the Tumu Crisis, 1449–1450. Arcadia    

September 2016

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Scientific Study Group Favors Recognizing Human-Influenced Epoch. Eos

An Early Start to Climate Change: New Research Shows that the Oceans Began Warming in the Mid-1800s. Future Earth

Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 years'. The Guardian

The demise of the Maya Civilization: Water Shortage can Destroy Cultures. GeoSpace

August 2016

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Goddard Space Flight Center.

Greenland Lost a Staggering 1 Trillion Tons of Ice in Just Four Years.Washington Post

Analysis of Historical Records Shows Ireland is Prone to Drought. Maynooth University

How a Single Word Sparked a Four-Year Saga of Climate Fact-Checking and Blog Backlash. The Conversation

The World’s Clouds Are in Different Places Than They Were 30 Years Ago.Washington Post

​3,000-Year Sea Level Study Called a Major Advance. NASA    

July 2016

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Byron’s Villa Diodati, by Edward Francis Finden, ca. 1833, after a drawing by William Purser.

Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816 The Public Domain Review

The Birthday of the Year Without a Summer. The Otter
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12,000 Years Ago, Humans and Climate Change Made a Deadly Team. New York Times

Super-Slow Circulation Allowed World's Oceans to Store Huge Amounts of Carbon During Last Ice Age. ScienceDaily
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30 Years Ago Scientists Warned Congress on Global Warming. What They Said Sounds Eerily Familiar. Washington Post    

June 2016

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CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock - and stays there. New Scientist

Is wacky weather helping melt Greenland? Science

Kingdom-Busting Volcanoes Linked to the Rise of the Roman Empire. New Scientist

See Earth’s Temperature Spiral Toward 2°C. Climate Central

Climatic and Environmental Aspects of the Mongol Withdrawal From Hungary in 1242 CE. Nature

​Report Warns of Climate Disasters that Rival Hollywood's. New York Times    

May 2016

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Victorians Experienced Early Climate Change But Missed the Signs. New Scientist

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Can Medieval Societies Teach Us How to Adapt to Climate Change? Future Earth

Ancient Volcanoes Could Be Key to Predicting Impact of Climate Change.USC News

Study: Humans Have Caused All the Global Warming Since 1950. The Guardian

​Did Climate Change Cause These Ancient Civilizations to Collapse? Global Past    

April 2016

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Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post, via Getty Images

How Climate Change Has Affected History (Especially Religion). History News Network

Q&A: Author of 'Feminist Glaciology' Study Reflects on Sudden Appearance in Culture Wars Science Magazine

What We’re Doing to the Earth Has No Parallel in 66 Million Years, Scientists Say. Washington Post

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries. New York Times

​These Ancient Shipwrecks Hold a Hidden Message About Climate Change.Washington Post    

March 2016

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What These Dead Whalers Tell Us About Climate Change. KUOW.org. http://kuow.org/post/what-these-dead-whalers-tell-us-about-climate-change

Leading Scientists Say Warming Slowdown Was Real. Climate Central. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/scientists-say-warming-slowdown-was-real-20068?utm_content=buffer102db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How Climate Change Destroyed Britain's "Atlantis." Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/23/how-climate-change-destroyed-britains-atlantis

How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2015? New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/19/us/2015-year-in-weather-temperature-precipitation.html#london_britain

​Why Science Teachers Are Struggling With Climate Change. NPR. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/19/467206769/why-science-teachers-are-struggling-with-climate-change

January-February 2016

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125-Year Mini Ice Age Linked to the Plague and Fall of Empires. New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076713-125-year-mini-ice-age-linked-to-the-plague-and-fall-of-empires
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Better Tools to Build Better Climate Models. EOS. https://eos.org/project-updates/better-tools-to-build-better-climate-models

The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster. Nautilus. http://nautil.us/issue/31/stress/the-volcano-that-shrouded-the-earth-and-gave-birth-to-a-monster

Volcanic Eruptions: Reconciling Past Mismatches. Future Earth. http://futureearth.org/blog/2016-jan-21/volcanic-eruptions-reconciling-past-mismatches

Growth Rings On Rocks Give Up North American Climate Secrets. Berkeley News. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/11/rings-on-rocks-detail-north-american-paleoclimate

December 2015

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Vikings’ Mysterious Abandonment of Greenland Was Not Due to Climate Change, Study Suggests. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/04/climate-change-may-not-have-driven-the-vikings-from-greenland-after-all

The Civilizing Power of Nature. Hakai Magazine. http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/civilizing-power-nature

Does Climate Change Cause Violent Conflict? Scenes of Reason. https://www.scenesofreason.com/does-climate-change-cause-violent-conflict

What Declassified Spy Images are Teaching us About Climate Change. Hakai Magazine. http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/what-declassified-spy-images-are-teaching-us-about-climate-change

Scots University to Save ‘Melting’ Alaskan Village. The Scotsman. http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/scots-university-to-save-melting-alaskan-village-1-3262710

Explaining Extreme Events of 2014. NOAA. ​http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/explaining-extreme-events-2014

November 2015

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Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Credit: NYT

Greenland is Melting Away. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html

Carbon emissions hit new high and temperature rise soars to 1oC. New Scientist. https://goo.gl/ohxcAO

Climate and the Khan. Discover Magazine. http://discovermagazine.com/2015/july-aug/14-climate-and-khan

NASA - Antarctica is Not Melting - Land Ice is Growing. Reporting Climate Science. http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/nasa-antarctica-is-not-melting-land-ice-is-growing.html 

What Declassified Spy Images are Teaching us About Climate Change. Hakai Magazine. http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/what-declassified-spy-images-are-teaching-us-about-climate-change

​Climates of Crisis! Merovingian World. https://merovingianworld.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/climates-of-crisis

October 2015

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Credit: Rhode Island Historical Society/Creative Commons

The Great September Gale of 1815. Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/09/the_great_september_gale_of_1815_and_the_way_we_think_about_the_weather.html

Debunking the Top 10 Climate Change Myths. Climate Nexus. http://climatenexus.org/debunking-top-10-climate-change-myths

Why Some Scientists are Worried About a Surprisingly Cold 'Blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/24/why-some-scientists-are-worried-about-a-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean/?tid=sm_fb

Fastest Recorded Solar Decline Will Cool Global Climate. Reporting Climate Science. http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/fastest-recorded-solar-decline-will-cool-global-climate.html

Scientists Say California Hasn't Been This Dry in 500 Years Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/14/scientists-say-its-been-500-years-since-california-was-this-dry
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Large Variability Measured in Kuroshio Current East of Taiwan. EOS. https://eos.org/research-spotlights/large-variability-measured-in-kuroshio-current-east-of-taiwan

September 2015

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Muir Glacier, 1880s-90s. Credit: USGS

Repeat Photography of Alaskan Glaciers. USGS. http://www.usgs.gov/climate_landuse/glaciers/repeat_photography.asp

Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Happened. Science Daily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150917110002.htm

From Katrina, an "Amazing" Decade of Climate Research. Climate Central. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/how-katrina-changed-climate-research-19386

Here's What Happens When You Try to Replicate Climate Contrarian Papers. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/aug/25/heres-what-happens-when-you-try-to-replicate-climate-contrarian-papers

Chinese Cave Inscriptions Tell Woeful Tale of Drought. EOS. https://eos.org/articles/chinese-cave-inscriptions-tell-woeful-tale-of-drought

Science On a Sphere. NOAA. http://sos.noaa.gov/SOS_Explorer/

August 2015

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Credit: Nick Cobbing

When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job. Esquire Magazine. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815

Fossil Fuels May Bring Major Changes to Carbon Dating. Climate Central. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/fossil-fuels-major-changes-radiocarbon-19288

"Carbon Sink" Detected Underneath World's Deserts. AGU Newsroom. http://news.agu.org/press-release/carbon-sink-detected-underneath-worlds-deserts

Mammoths Died Out Because of Sudden Climate Change. Discover News. http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/mammoths-died-out-because-of-sudden-climate-change-150725.htm

Gulf Stream Slowdown Linked with European Cooling. Reporting Climate Science. http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/gulf-stream-slowdown-linked-with-sudden-european-cooling.html

Medievalist Helps Scientists Rewrite Climate Records. Medievalists.net. http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/09/medievalist-helps-scientists-rewrite-climate-records

June/July 2015

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New York under 6 meters of water. Credit: Climate Central

Global Warming Causing Great Loss of Bumblebee Habitat. Sci-News. http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-global-warming-loss-bumblebee-habitat-03004.html

Sea Level Could Rise at Least 6 Meters. Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sea-level-could-rise-at-least-6-meters

Heat is Being Stored Beneath the Ocean Surface. NASA Earth Observatory. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86184&src=eorss-iotd

Study Finds Sudden Shift in “Forcing” Led to Demise of Laurentide Ice Sheet. OSU News. http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/jun/study-finds-sudden-shift-%E2%80%9Cforcing%E2%80%9D-led-demise-laurentide-ice-sheet

Thawing Arctic Carbon Threatens 'Runaway' Global Warming. The Ecologist. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2869575/thawing_arctic_carbon_threatens_runaway_global_warming.html

Because There Are No Spare Earths. NASA Climate Change. http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2295

What's Really Warming the World? Bloomberg Business. http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world

May 2015

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Credit: BBC News

Sending Ice to Antarctica. BBC News. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32802588

Thawing Arctic Carbon Threatens 'Runaway' Global Warming. Ecologist. http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2869575/thawing_arctic_carbon_threatens_runaway_global_warming.html

Most Glaciers in Everest Area will Disappear with Climate Change - Study. The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/27/most-glaciers-in-mount-everest-area-will-disappear-with-climate-change-study

Global Warming Brews Weird Weather. Nature News. http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-brews-weird-weather-1.17407?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Why Our Students Should Debate Climate Change. Edge Effects. http://edgeeffects.net/teaching-climate-change

Longer Melt Season a Game Changer for Arctic Mammals. NASA Global Climate Change. http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2279/

April 2015

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2012 Chronostratigraphic Chart.

The Inhuman Anthropocene. Avidly. http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2015/03/22/the-inhuman-anthropocene 

How Western Canada Glaciers Will Melt Away. CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/how-western-canada-glaciers-will-melt-away-1.3022242

Light Blue Books: Reading About Winter Ecology and Climate History. Uncommon Sense. http://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/light-blue-books-reading-about-winter-ecology-and-climate-history

Climate Change Does Not Cause Extreme Winters, Experts Say. ScienceDaily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150327132207.htm

Study: Melting Greenland Ice Sheet is Rapidly Slowing the Gulfstream. Mashable. http://mashable.com/2015/03/24/gulf-stream-slowdown-study-tipping-point

March 2015

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Credit: Matt Mahurin, Rolling Stone.

The Pentagon and Climate Change. Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-pentagon-climate-change-how-climate-deniers-put-national-security-at-risk-20150212

The Cold That Binds: Ice, Climate History, and a Hobbit Hole. The Otter. http://niche-canada.org/2015/03/11/the-cold-that-binds-ice-climate-history-and-a-hobbit-hole

Light Blue Books: Reading About Winter Ecology and Climate History. Uncommon Sense. http://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/light-blue-books-reading-about-winter-ecology-and-climate-history

Who’s Really to Blame for the Black Death? Pacific Standard. http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/the-european-rats-have-been-innocent-this-whole-time

Combined Arctic Ice Observations Show Decades of Loss. ScienceDaily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150303095838.htm
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