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Are New Zealand’s marine heatwaves a warning to the world?
As seas around Aotearoa heat at an unparalleled rate, scientists are starting to understand what it might mean for marine ecosystems
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We’re About to See a Rare and Record-Setting May Heat Wave
A potentially record-setting heat wave is headed for the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, a sign of the shift to hotter—and earlier—summers
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US Has Already Seen 7 Different Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters This Year: NOAA
Seven different billion-dollar or more extreme weather events struck the U.S. during the first four months of 2023. That's one of the "notable" findings from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) April State of the Climate report, released Monday.
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Energy of '25 billion atomic bombs' trapped on Earth in just 50 years, all because of global warming
Global warming has trapped an explosive amount of energy in Earth's atmosphere in the past half century — the equivalent of about 25 billion atomic bombs, a new study finds. In the paper, published April 17 in the journal Earth System Science Data(opens in new tab), an international group of researchers estimated that, between 1971 and 2020, around 380 zettajoules — that is, 380,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules — of energy has been trapped by global warming.
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Environmentalists sue California over reduced solar incentives
The fate of California’s wildly successful rooftop solar incentives will be decided in court. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday — and shared exclusively with The Times — three environmental groups argue that the California Public Utilities Commission acted illegally when it slashed compensation payments for power generated by solar panels.
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Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study
Region is suffering its worst drought in 40 years after five consecutive years of below-average rainfall
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E.P.A. to Propose First Controls on Greenhouse Gases From Power Plants
If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
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The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study
Human beings have massively changed the Earth system. Greenhouse-gas emissions produced by human activities have caused the global mean temperature to rise by more than 1.1°C compared to the preindustrial era. And every year, there are additional emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases, currently amounting to more than 55 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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World’s first carbon import tax gets green light
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved the world’s first “carbon tax” for imported goods, imposing tariffs based on the amount of emissions generated in their production.
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Up in smoke: Human activities are fuelling wildfires that burn essential carbon-sequestering peatlands
For centuries, society has scorned bogs, fens and swamps — collectively known as peatlands — treating them as wastelands available to be drained and developed without realizing they’re important buffers against climate-changing carbon emissions.
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3 Environmentalists Fighting Climate Change With Bitcoin
There are hundreds of environmentalists around the world who believe the bitcoin ecosystem could actually help reduce carbon emissions and increase reliance on renewable energy. Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, provide inconsistent power to the grids in places like Texas. Bitcoin mining is a flexible load, allowing miners to ramp up and down with the sometimes-unpredictable production schedules of wind and solar.
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US coal capital seeks greener future
The US government wants to turn domestic coalfields into green energy centers in an effort to combine climate protection with job creation. But those affected have little trust in the policy, reports Sabrina Kessler.
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Airlines want you to buy carbon offsets. Experts say they’re a ‘scam.’
“Book more sustainably” — that was the message German airline Lufthansa marketed to travelers when it launched its new “Green Fares” in February. Lufthansa’s new program gives passengers the option to spend a little more money to purportedly reduce the climate impacts of their flights. But climate advocates were quick to criticize the program as another case of greenwashing in aviation.
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'Big sponge': new CO2 tech taps oceans to tackle global warming
Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been working for two years on SeaChange—an ambitious project that could one day boost the amount of CO2, a major greenhouse gas, that can be absorbed by our seas.
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Climate change: How can Paris adapt to 50°C heat waves?
A fact-finding mission makes 85 recommendations to prevent the French capital from becoming uninhabitable for part of the year.
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Wealthy Countries Have Blown Through Their Carbon Budgets
More than a century of burning fossil fuels has unleashed fiercer heat waves and droughts, heavier downpours that cause massive floods and other extreme climate disruptions. If we want to avoid even worse effects of climate change in the future, humans need to keep the rise in global temperatures as far below two degrees Celsius as possible.
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Emissions From Banned Ozone-Destroying Chemicals Are Mysteriously Rising
Thirty years after countries agreed to ease up on the use of chemicals damaging the ozone layer, there are promising signs that the ozone will be fully recovered by the 2060s. But we’re not out of the woods yet. A study published this month in Nature Geoscience shows that emissions from dangerous gases banned in the 1980s are actually on the rise today—with implications not only for the ozone layer but for climate change as well.
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Do We Need Armageddon to Create Sustainable Societies?
There’s a narrative that the climate crisis will lead us down one of two pathways. The road towards sustainability, where a radical social transformation is triggered so that each person’s needs are met within environmental limits. Or, the road towards armageddon — where we continue full steam ahead with business of usual, which leads to some apocalyptic end-of-the-world scenario where everyone dies. It’s a crude narrative that wouldn’t be out of place in a budget sci-fi film.
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Baseball home runs could increase by 10% in the next 80 years. Here's why
Home runs are becoming more frequent in Major League Baseball (MLB) due to climate change, a new study finds. "There's a very clear physical mechanism at play in which warmer temperatures reduce the density of air," study co-author Justin Mankin(opens in new tab), an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire, said in the statement. "Baseball is a game of ballistics, and a batted ball is going to fly farther on a warm day."
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Will flying ever be green?
On 16 December 2021, a group of men dressed in the sober, branded casual wear of the Silicon Valley startup gathered on the asphalt at an airstrip outside Salinas, California. In front of them stood a black shiny capsule on three spindly legs, which resembled the offspring of a suppository and a golf trolley, with a V-tail like a humpback whale. Its single cross-span wing had four banks of three rotor blades – six at the front and six at the back – which made the sound of a loud hairdryer.
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