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Samsung pumps trillions into green initiatives
Samsung Electronics refreshed its environmental strategy, earmarking more than KRW7 trillion ($5 billion) for green initiatives by 2030, targeting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and joining RE100, a global renewable energy initiative. The company stated the investment will go to researching new technologies to develop energy-efficient products, increase water reuse and foster carbon capture techniques.
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Report shows devastating economic impact of rising sea levels along American coast
For years, scientists have warned about the dangerous consequences of climate change, and many dire outcomes are more urgent than most people realize.
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Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.
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Europe has had the ‘hottest summer on record’
Europe has experienced its hottest summer on record, according to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average temperature from June to August this summer was 0.4C hotter than last year’s summer, according to the service which is funded by the European Union.
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Intense heat waves and flooding are battering electricity and water systems, as America's aging infrastructure sags under the pressure of climate change
The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespread construction of new water treatment, wastewater and flood control systems reflecting national priorities in public health and national defense. But infrastructure requires maintenance, and, eventually, it has to be replaced.
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How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes
Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold.
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The decline of oil has already begun
We live in the era of peak oil, but just as the modern oil industry attempts to deny the effects of carbon emissions, the industry has also found it convenient to deny that oil is a finite resource that will peak and decline.
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Greta Thunberg says Swedish politicians ignoring climate crisis as election nears
Sweden's politicians are ignoring the climate crisis in the run-up to the election on Sept. 11 and treating it as if it were just a problem rather than a life-or-death threat, activist Greta Thunberg said.
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'Doomsday' glacier,' which could raise sea level by several feet, is holding on 'by its fingernails,' scientists say
The Thwaites "doomsday" glacier is eroding along its underwater base. Scientists now say it has the capability of retreating much faster than it has in the past decade.
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Rich nations owe reparations to countries facing climate disaster, says Pakistan minister
Sherry Rehman, the country’s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is deluded by devastating floods.
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The US agency in charge of developing fossil fuels has a new job: cleaning them up
The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has a new name, new leaders, and a new mandate to meet Joe Biden’s climate goals.
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U.S. is seriously underestimating the consequences of CO2 - study
The U.S. government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate policies, a study suggested on Thursday.
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Brutal heatwave headed for US west, raising health fears
A brutal, potentially record-breaking heatwave is setting over the US west, the latest in a string of extreme temperature events that’s putting communities on high alert for heat-related illness and death. The National Weather Service expects highs of 115F (46C) in parts of southern California, Sacramento and the San Joaquin Valley over Labor Day weekend.
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Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
Environmentalists say replacing natural forests with wood plantations to realise shift in construction practices is ‘bonkers’
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‘Zombie ice’ from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday. Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
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Americans are convinced climate action is unpopular. They're very, very wrong.
It can be hard to guess what others are thinking. Especially when it comes to climate change. People imagine that a minority of Americans want action, when it’s actually an overwhelming majority, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications. When asked to estimate public support for measures such as a carbon tax or a Green New Deal, most respondents put the number between 37 and 43 percent. In fact, polling suggests that the real number is almost double that, ranging from 66 to 80 percent.
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Canada has a quarter of world's soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News
Canada stores about a quarter of all the soil carbon in the world, a new study has found, putting a spotlight on the country's role in preventing that carbon from being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.
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Nothing In History Compares To China's Brutal Heat Wave, Weather Historian Says
The two-month-long stretch of hot weather baking large swaths of China is, all things considered, the world’s most extreme heat wave on record, one climatologist argues.
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This Startup's Modified Trees Grow Faster, Store More Carbon
It doesn't take a scientist to understand why trees are so crucial in the fight to curb climate change. They can absorb and store carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas. But a Bay Area startup thinks trees can do better. Living Carbon has developed a technique to genetically modify trees that can grow faster, and store more carbon.
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Why the carbon capture subsidies in the climate bill are good news for emissions
Critics fear carbon capture will extend the life of fossil-fuel plants. But it can drive huge emissions declines in steel, cement, fertilizer, bioenergy, and beyond.
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