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Our Response to Climate Change Is Missing Something Big, Scientists Say
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Yes, planting new trees can help. But intact wild areas are much better. The world needs to treat warming and biodiversity loss as two parts of the same problem, a new report warns.
New York City Greenery Absorbing All Traffic Emissions on Many Summer Days
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On many summer days, trees, shrubs, and grasses across the New York metro area soak up as much carbon dioxide as is generated by all cars, buses, and trucks, according to new research.
Draft Report Offers Starkest View Yet of U.S. Climate Threats
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“The things Americans value most are at risk,” says a draft of the National Climate Assessment, a major federal scientific report slated for release next year.
A ‘climate solution’ that spies worry could trigger war
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Solar geoengineering holds promise for reducing global temperatures. Absent international agreements, it could also spark conflict.
Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds
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FH;P Climate show
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The Climate Show presented the results of the Climate Semester - Utopias for the Present in the form of a digital exhibition and as an online event on 17.07.2020. Together at the FH Potsdam, in the summer semester 2020, the climate semester, the challenges of the climate crisis were put into perspective and transdisciplinary approaches and viable options for action for the here and now were developed.
Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows
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You May Miss These Parasites When They’re Gone
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Warming temperatures in one part of the world seem to have driven down the parasite population, suggesting another unexpected way that climate change harms ecosystems.
How people access and think about climate change news
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Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability draws on a deep understanding of Earth, climate, and society to create solutions at a global scale, in collaboration with partners worldwide. Together, we strive to create a future where humans and nature thrive in concert and in perpetuity.
Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says.
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A new report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
Global ‘Stilling’: Is Climate Change Slowing Down the Wind?
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‘Top 1%’ of emitters caused almost a quarter of growth in global emissions since 1990
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The study, published in Nature Sustainability, highlights the inequality in peoples’ greenhouse gas footprints – a cornerstone of the climate justice movement.
The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly
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The Arctic Is Becoming Wetter and Stormier, Scientists Warn
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In their annual assessment of the region and its climate, researchers highlighted new signs of a huge transformation underway.
International Energy Agency
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The IEA is at the heart of the global dialogue on energy, providing authoritative analysis, data, policy recommendations, and real-world solutions
Climate Change Is Launching a Mutant Seed Space Race
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Nuclear watchdog is exposing sorghum and cress to orbital radiation in experiment to trigger resistance against global warming.
How consumers are embracing sustainability
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Adoption of sustainable lifestyles is on the rise, but consumers need more help
How Do We Know Climate Change Is Real?
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change
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Can microplastics pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration?
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Global climate change has attracted worldwide attention. The ocean is the largest active carbon pool on the planet and plays an important role in global climate change. However, marine plastic pollution is getting increasingly serious due to the large consumption and mismanagement of global plastics. The impact of marine plastics on ecosystem responsible for the gas exchange and circulation of marine CO2 may cause more greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, in this paper, threats of marine microplastics to ocean carbon sequestration are discussed. Marine microplastics can 1) affect phytoplankton photosynthesis and growth; 2) have toxic effects on zooplankton and affect their development and reproduction; 3) affect marine biological pump; and 4) affect ocean carbon stock. Phytoplankton and zooplankton are the most important producer and consumer of the ocean. As such, clearly, further research should be needed to explore the potential scale and scope of this impact, and its underlying mechanisms.
Climate killer artificial intelligence?
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With ChatGPT or Midjourney, AI has reached the average user. What hardly anyone is interested in is the ecological footprint. Golem.de did the math and asked three researchers.
Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board
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In his Nobel speech in 2018, Dr. Nordhaus pegged the “optimal” carbon price — that is, the shared economic burden caused by each ton of emissions — at $43 in 2020. Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, called it a “woeful underestimate of the true cost” — noting that the prize committee’s home country already taxed carbon at $120 per ton.
Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years
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Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, report says
Study: IPCC asks emerging countries to drop coal faster than rich nations did
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A new study has found that most energy transition models ask nations like China, India and South Africa to cut coal use twice as fast as developed countries ever did.
Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity
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The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study
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Inside Climate News
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Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
Carbon Brief
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Clear on Climate
Environmental Kuznets Curve
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The standard EKC regression model is then:(3)lnEit=αi+γt+β1lnYit+β2lnYit2+εitwhere E is either ambient environmental quality or emissions per person, Y is per capita gross domestic product, ε is a random error term, and ln indicates natural logarithms.
The Poignant Music of Melting Ice: Have a Listen
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Scientists and musicians are recording the sounds of unfreezing water to document and predict the effects of climate change. Can their work help slow it, too?
Global Registry of Fossil Fuel Emissions and Reserves
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The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is constantly collecting new data. It contains data from 139 fossil fuel producing countries, which amounts to 99% of fossil fuel production aggregated to the national level.
In a First Study of Pakistan’s Floods, Scientists See Climate Change at Work
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NFT, AI and Co: What progress costs us
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What is the size of the carbon footprint of AI, blockchains and smart home applications?
CLIMATE TRACE
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INDEPENDENT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRACKING
Stockholm Environment Institute
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We are an international non-profit research and policy organization that tackles environment and development challenges.
Will global warming make temperature less deadly?
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The scientific paper published in the June 2021 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change was alarming. Between 1991 and 2018, the peer-reviewed study reported, more than one-third of deaths from heat exposure were linked to global warming. Hundreds of news outlets covered the findings. The message was clear: climate change is here, and it’s already killing people. But that wasn’t all that was happening. A month later, the same research group, which is based out of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but includes scientists from dozens of countries, released another peer-reviewed study that told a fuller, more complex story about the link between climate change, temperature and human mortality. The two papers’ authors were mostly the same, and they used similar data and statistical methods.
Who’s Driving Climate Change? New Data Catalogs 72,000 Polluters and Counting
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A nonprofit backed by Al Gore and other big environmental donors says it can track emissions down to individual power plants, oil fields and cargo ships.
We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope.
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Beaming Clean Energy From Space
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Once considered science fiction, technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy is moving closer to reality. Through the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), a team of Caltech researchers is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed—including to places that currently have no access to reliable power.
World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies
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Key UN reports published in last two days warn urgent and collective action needed – as oil firms report astronomical profits
UNEP Food Waste Index Report 2021
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The fact that substantial amounts of food are produced but not eaten by humans has substantial negative impacts: environmentally, socially and economically. Estimates suggest that 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are associated with food that is not consumed.
Climate Central | Researching and communicating climate change impacts and solutions
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We use science and technology to generate thousands of local storylines and compelling visuals that make climate change personal and show what can be done about it.
NASA tool detects methane hotspots from space
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Scientists have identified over 50 places around the world that are emitting vast amounts of methane. The greenhouse gas is about 80 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
The Roads to Decoupling: 21 Countries Are Reducing Carbon Emissions While Growing GDP
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Half of Earth’s glaciers could melt even if key warming goal is met, study says
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New research suggests that even at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels, the Earth will lose nearly half of its glaciers
Banning super short-haul flights: Environmental evidence or political turbulence?
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How Can We Measure Droughts and Deluges? Weigh the Planet.
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Scientists have long cautioned that warming temperatures would lead to wetter and drier global extremes — increasingly severe rainfall, more intense droughts. A new study shows where that may already be happening.
Carbon Tracker Initiative
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Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
Big Oil’s green PR disproportionate to its investment, finds research
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EcoWatch
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Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point’?
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Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna — with profound effects on the climate worldwide.
Oil and gas firms production plans spell 'catastrophic' warming: report
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An analysis by the financial think tank Carbon Tracker found that fossil fuel firms approved $166bn of investment in new oil and gas fields between January 2021 and March this year.
We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope.
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TILclimate Podcast
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Climate change is confusing. TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) is an award-winning MIT podcast that breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and what we can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on climate change — from real scientists and experts — to help us make informed decisions for our future.
‘Carbon timebomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands
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Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows
Scientists Get a Close-Up Look Beneath a Troubling Ice Shelf in Antarctica
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A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting, which will help forecast its effect on global sea level.
ArcticRisk Platform
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The Arctic early-warning system is flashing red. Extreme Arctic warming is triggering a cascade of risks across the rest of the planet. Explore the Arctic Risk Platform to find out what the Arctic climate crisis means for you.
Just Plane Wrong: Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions
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The environmental impact of today’s transport types
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Ranking all major urban transport modes based on their carbon-emission output.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology: The Future Of Sustainable Aviation
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Science offers basis for national climate damage claims -study
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