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Many increasingly see environmental crises like the fires in the Amazon as global concerns. But how can remote actors like the EU make a difference, especially when regional players seem uninterested?
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The world’s northernmost town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard is struggling to cope with the effects of climate change.
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The state’s Republican-controlled legislature remains an obstacle to big changes, so the administration is looking for work-arounds and short-term wins.
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It’s called “wishcycling,” and pretty much all of us do it.
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More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers.
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The climate crisis is increasingly distressing. Fortunately, there are many things we can do to ensure our future is as prosperous as possible.
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It doesn’t mean the world can wait until 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, or that chaos will erupt in 2030. Here’s what the science shows.
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Wild fires burning in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves,100 year floods happening yearly are signs of our times, the worst of times.
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We’re mad,” says 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor. “We’re really mad.”
Fair enough. Along with the rest of her generation, Villaseñor is expected to face the brunt of human-caused climate change this century. It’s like her parents burned a box of pizza rolls and left her to clean up the mess — except instead of nuclearly hot tomato paste, the object of abuse is what remains of life on Earth.
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In most respects, climate change is a horror show. As the temperature rises, the conditions in which most of human civilization grew in fade away. The shorelines humans have almost always known are changing. Places we prefer to be wet are drying out, and some places we know to be dry are greening up a bit. Storms are getting more severe in some places, and they’re going away in others.
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Poor polar bear. The long-time poster child for a warming world, it’s dying despite scientists’ direst warnings — and, lately, it’s become a symbol of how bear-hugging big green groups for too long ignored the humans living on the frontlinesof climate change.
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The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
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California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.
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The 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.
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They generate heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.
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One year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20
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As climate change brings dangerous heat waves, too little is being done to better warn patients or physicians of the growing risk, medical experts say.
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If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.
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I want to talk about power — how much we have, and how we can use it meaningfully.
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He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.
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Land degradation represents “one of the biggest and most urgent challenges” that humanity faces.
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I’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”
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The changes also let the government consider economic interests and could open doors to oil and gas drilling and mining in sensitive areas, including the Arctic.
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New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from the deadliest disaster: heat.
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Climate change isn’t just about science. The migration spurred by extreme weather events is raising deep moral questions around access and equity for developed countries.
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Attempts to solve the climate crisis by cutting carbon emissions from only cars, factories and power plants are doomed to failure, scientists will warn this week.
read moreClimate Change Becomes an Issu...
The risk of a ratings downgrade can pressure cities and companies to take steps to mitigate climate risks, such as from sea level rise.
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Earth’s hottest June on record was followed by a sizzling July that either tied or exceeded another global extreme. People, trees and fish are feeling the heat.
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During the past few weeks, the top of the world has been burning. Vast swaths of the Arctic, from Alaska to Siberia, are on fire, with scientific agencies breaking out the term “unprecedented” to describe the situation.
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