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Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)
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Africa’s drylands are getting more support. How to make the most of…
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The Unexpectedly Exciting World of Refrigerants
Guest blog written by Tilden Chao. Tilden is an undergraduate at Yale University who worked on…
Map tracks 30 years of extreme snowmelt across US
A new map of extreme snowmelt events over the last 30 years clarifies the processes that drive…
Earth’s frozen areas are shrinking 33K square miles a year
The Earth’s cryosphere is shrinking by 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) per year. -
Model predicts 10-year burst of wildfire, then gradual decline
A look at the long-term future of wildfires predicts an initial roughly decade-long burst of…
Once common weasels are doing a vanishing act
Three species of weasels, once common in North America, are likely in decline, including a species…
Flood risk will rise as climate heat intensifies
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234 scientists read 14,000+ research papers to write the upcoming…
This week, hundreds of scientists from around the world are finalizing a report that assesses the…
Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on…
When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate…
Court Takes Industry Bait, Caves to Fossil Fuels
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Four Green Hydrogen Opportunities for the Midwest
To avert a climate crisis, the Midwest, like the rest of the country, will need to fully…
Major Barrier to Demand Response Needs to End
If federal regulators do the right thing, electricity customers across the Midwest may soon be able…
Plant These Trees To Improve City Life
A new study establishes live oaks and American sycamores as champions among 17 “super trees” that…
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3 wildfire lessons for forest towns as Dixie Fire destroys historic…
A wildfire burning in hot, dry mountain forest swept through the Gold Rush town of Greenville,…How urban gardens can boost biodiversity and make cities more…
In building cities, we have created some of the harshest habitats on Earth — and then chosen to…Africa’s drylands are getting more support. How to make the most of…
The United Nations (UN) recently launched the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration to prevent, halt and… -
The Unexpectedly Exciting World of Refrigerants
Guest blog written by Tilden Chao. Tilden is an undergraduate at Yale University who worked on…Map tracks 30 years of extreme snowmelt across US
A new map of extreme snowmelt events over the last 30 years clarifies the processes that drive…Earth’s frozen areas are shrinking 33K square miles a year
The Earth’s cryosphere is shrinking by 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) per year. -
Model predicts 10-year burst of wildfire, then gradual decline
A look at the long-term future of wildfires predicts an initial roughly decade-long burst of…Once common weasels are doing a vanishing act
Three species of weasels, once common in North America, are likely in decline, including a species…Flood risk will rise as climate heat intensifies
A warmer world will be a wetter one. Ever more people will face a higher flood risk as rivers rise… -
234 scientists read 14,000+ research papers to write the upcoming…
This week, hundreds of scientists from around the world are finalizing a report that assesses the…Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on…
When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate…Court Takes Industry Bait, Caves to Fossil Fuels
In a disappointing decision, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western… -
Four Green Hydrogen Opportunities for the Midwest
To avert a climate crisis, the Midwest, like the rest of the country, will need to fully…Major Barrier to Demand Response Needs to End
If federal regulators do the right thing, electricity customers across the Midwest may soon be able…Plant These Trees To Improve City Life
A new study establishes live oaks and American sycamores as champions among 17 “super trees” that…
- CNN
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Climate change is already having a negative impact on our food supply. CNN's Sanjay Gupta reports. #CNN #News
- Joshua Conrad Jackson and Michele Gelfand
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Two trends have defined the past decade and both have been on display at this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Liz Hanna
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Global warming is accelerating, driven by the continuing rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Australia’s climate has warmed by just over 1°C since 1910, with global temperatures on course for a 3-5°C rise this century.
- Nivedita Khandekar
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Unless nations act now to halt the spread of deserts, they may face wars over food shortages and starvation by mid-century, the UN says.
- Rachael Sharman and Patrick D. Nunn
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Thousands of school students across Australia joined in the global protest calling for action on climate change.
- BBC News
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Parts of the Middle East could become uninhabitable by 2050 because of climate change.
- NBC News
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President Trump has cut foreign aid to Guatemala and demanded the country do more to stem migration to the United States. However, in an internal report obtained exclusively by NBC News, U.S. Customs
- PBS NewsHour
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The world's oceans and seas have already absorbed an enormous amount of excess heat in our climate system, according to a new UN report. And the risks of dire consequences for marine and coastal life
- Rachel Warren and Sally Brown
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Many numbers are bandied around in climate emergency discussions. Of them, 1.5°C is perhaps the most important. At the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to aim for 1.5°C.
- Nick Longrich
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In the past half-billion years, Earth has been hit again and again by mass extinctions, wiping out most species on the planet. And every time, life recovered and ultimately went on to increase in diversity.
- Tim Radford
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You need energy to develop. You also need water. So coal-burning generators that need water for cooling invite trouble.
- PBS NewsHour
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The Gulf of Maine is known for lobsters, which form the foundation of an industry critical to the state’s economy.
- InnerSelf Staff
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The increased growth rate of plants seen worldwide in response to rising CO2 levels – a phenomenon known as “global greening” – could be stalled by growing water stress, a study finds.
- Caroline Hickman
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Eco-anxiety is likely to affect more and more people as the climate destabilises. Already, studies have found that 45% of children suffer lasting depression after surviving extreme weather and natural disasters.
- NBC News
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While climate change has contributed to rising sea levels and an increase in severe storms, many areas around the world not have enough water.
- Zeke Hausfather
- Read Time: 24 mins
A sizeable portion of recent studies on future climate impacts have focused on a warming scenario called “RCP8.5”.
- Robert McSweeney
- Read Time: 30 mins
Desertification has been described as “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse.
- Democracy Now!
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Despite its abundance of natural resources, the Bahamas has been unable to turn to renewable forms of energy due to multinational companies’ control over the islands' electrical grid.
- Atlas Pro
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Under the Antarctic treaty, mining is technically prohibited on Antarctic, but that expires in around 30 years
- Tony Matthews
- Read Time: 5 mins
Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant.
- Sandra Harding
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More than 2000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle declared that there were three zones of the world – the Frigid Zone, the Temperate Zone and the Torrid Zone – and only one of these, the Temperate Zone, was a place where civilised human beings could live.
- Todd Bates
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Climate change may reduce the ability of soil to absorb water in many parts of the world, researchers warn.
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