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USA TODAY China to Trump: We didn’t make up global warmingUSA TODAYChina is reminding the president-elect of the United States that they didn’t make up global warming, really. China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters that Trump’s previous claims that the country had created global warming to make U.S. …As Trump Heads to Washington, Global…

Psychology Today (blog) Early-Life Environment Influences Brain Growth and BehaviorPsychology Today (blog)These two studies strongly suggest that environmental influences on young children have direct effects on patterns of brain maturation, which, in turn, are associated with specific patterns of behaviors. The approaches used by these investigators will …

Wall Street Journal Donald Trump Won’t Slow Efforts to Fight Climate Change, John Kerry PredictsWall Street JournalMARRAKESH, Morocco—Secretary of State John Kerry sought to reassure attendees at a United Nations conference that President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to reverse President Barack Obama’s ambitious climate agenda, won’t slow global efforts …Trump won’t deter us on climate…

TIME China to Trump: Why are you blaming us for climate change?The VergeIn 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that climate change was a concept invented by China to make US businesses less competitive. Four years later, Trump was elected president of the United States — and so China decided to address the preposterous claim, …China to Donald…

Scientific American Antarctica’s Southern Ocean May No Longer Help Delay Global WarmingScientific AmericanThis raises new questions about how effective these waters will be as a brake on global warming in decades to come. “The Southern Ocean is doing us a big climate favour at the moment, but it’s not necessarily the case that it will…

Men’s Journal Planetary Politics: What Trump Could do to the EnvironmentMen’s JournalOne of the big issues that was notably absent during 2016’s exhausting, nasty campaign was climate change and environmental policy. It has found new life after Trump’s victory and the election of a Republican Congress that could finally fulfill their …Environment minister says global…

Science Daily Climate change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet …Science DailyNew research shows that climate change may impede the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions. Previous research has shown that as the planet warms, the lower … and more »

TIME Scientists Fear Climate Change Is Killing the Arctic’s ReindeerTIMEResearchers working in Arctic Russia have expressed their concerns that thousands of reindeer could die this year as a result of global climate change. About 20,000 reindeer starved to death in 2006 and another 61,000 in 2013, according to a recent study.Climate change threatens reindeerNEWS.com.au all…

The Seattle Times How Capt. James Cook’s intricate 1778 records reveal global warming today in ArcticThe Seattle TimesThis etching shows Capt. James Cook’s ships searching in vain for the Northwest Passage in 1778. The title: “The Resolution beating through the ice, with the Discovery in the most eminent danger in the… (John Webber/National Library of…

Mother Jones Trump’s Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren’t Bad for YouMother JonesTo lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump settled on notorious climate change denier Myron Ebell. The decision rattled climate activists—see Julia Lurie’s interview with Bill McKibbon and David Roberts …Trump poses a threat to the environmentDaily IlliniSlashed Budgets…