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Obama has expanded protections for California's sea life. -

The Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank marine sanctuaries, off the state's northern coast, will more than double in size. The area has been called "the blue Serengeti" for the diverse marine life drawn to its nutrient-rich waters. Washington Post

Californians are drinking 20,000-year-old water. -

The current drought has depleted groundwater supplies so severely that the state is tapping into deep reserves of prehistoric water. No one knows when that, too, might run dry. Mother Jones

The World Bank president says managing natural disasters is the key to ending poverty. -

Speaking ahead of a U.N. conference on disaster risk reduction, Jim Yong Kim said extreme weather events like typhoons can destroy economic growth—and warned that climate change will make such occurrences more frequent and severe. Reuters

This is no time for complacency—and certainly not the time to use this positive news as an excuse to stall further action.

Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency, after news broke that global growth in carbon emissions stalled in 2014 for the first time in 40 years, perhaps due to China's reduced coal use

The coldest year in the future is going to be the hottest year of the past.

—Environmental researcher Camilo Mora on his new study's projection that by 2050, U.S. cities will break their previous heat records every year

Wind farms could provide a third of the country's power by 2050. -

Wind currently supplies just 4.5 percent of the nation's electricity, but a new White House report says ramping up production would cut carbon, provide jobs, and improve public health—all at a cost of just 1 percent more than our current energy budget. The Hill