Photo: Global Warming Can Be Stopped, World Climate Experts Say

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Pollution rises from the smokestacks of the coal-fired Navajo Power Plant near Page, Arizona. A new report from an international team of scientists and policymakers says that global warming can be stopped if the use of fossil fuels like coal and oil is curbed considerably in the next few decades.

Photograph by J.C. Willett/U.S. Geological Survey

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