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Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner
When Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall, allowing consumers to see the individual emissions created by each flight they were browsing, it received widespread attention and praise from industry leaders and climate scientists alike.
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After '1,000-year' storm in Dallas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott chooses not to mention 'climate change'
A day after a “1-in-1,000-year” storm dumped up to 15 inches of rain in Dallas, triggering flash floods that submerged vehicles along a highway and left at least one person dead, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday said that the state is prepared to handle “extreme weather.”
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Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why?
Precipitation extremes are now more feast or famine because of climate change.
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The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China's 70-day streak
The event has affected well over 100 million people, and further disrupted global supply chains.
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Climate Joy: Not All Is Bad With the Environment
In our attempt to spread the word and get more people on board with the fight against climate change, many of us are guilty of spreading only the bad news. And I cannot deny the fact that things are bad. I myself recently wrote the article “We Are In The Midst Of A Climate Emergency” to bring attention to the gravity of the situation. Once carbon sinks, forests are emitting more carbon than they absorb. Ocean temperatures and acidity are rising to never-seen-before levels. Worst of all, we are running out of time and ways to adapt to this situation.
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Want to see how climate change is stressing bees? Look at their wings.
British researchers found that all four bee species they studied appeared to have become increasingly stressed by climate change over the past century.
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Risk of catastrophic California 'megaflood' has doubled due to global warming, researchers say
Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according to a UCLA study released Friday. In that inundation 160 years ago, 30 consecutive days of rain triggered monster flooding that roared across much of the state and changed the course of the Los Angeles River, relocating its mouth from Venice to Long Beach.
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Lakes are drying up everywhere. Israel will pump water from the Med as a solution
Despite its name, the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is actually a freshwater lake, and it’s one that has sustained life for millennia. Even today, the lake irrigates vineyards and local farms that grow everything from green vegetables to wheat and tangerines. Its archeology, hot springs and hiking trails bring tourism and livelihoods for local communities.
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Climate change: 'Staggering' rate of global tree losses from fires
Around 16 football pitches of trees per minute were lost to forest fires in 2021, a new report says. Data from Global Forest Watch suggests that across the globe, the amount of tree cover being burned has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. Climate change is a key factor in the increase as it leads to higher temperatures and drier conditions.
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Scientists say new climate law is likely to reduce warming
Massive incentives for clean energy in the U.S. law signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden should reduce future global warming “not a lot, but not insignificantly either"
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A disastrous megaflood could bring more than 8 feet of water to parts of California, scientists say
Climate change has already doubled the likelihood of catastrophic flooding in the state, researchers found, and without a limit on greenhouse gas emissions, it'll only get worse.
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Climate change could lead to larger algal blooms
Griffith-led research has revealed that both the decreases in wind and the higher temperatures predicted with climate change can cause bigger algal blooms in the future. Published in Water Research, the study found that a 20% decrease in wind speed will result in algal blooms of the freshwater cyanobacteria Microcystis that are almost one and a half times the current size.
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Climate Catastrophe Is Coming. But It’s Not the End of the Story.
Evidence that the world is warming is growing harder to ignore: The hottest temperatures ever were recorded in parts of Europe this summer. Wildfires are incinerating parts of the Western United States. Floods in Australia recently forced thousands to flee Sydney. And just last week in my home state of Kentucky, flash flooding washed away hundreds of homes and filled my Facebook feed with pleas like this one — “Please if anyone has seen my cousin and her family. All we know is their house is gone.”
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Climate change is making hundreds of diseases much worse
Climate change has exacerbated more than 200 infectious diseases and dozens of non-transmissible conditions, such as poisonous-snake bites, according to an analysis1. Climate hazards bring people and disease-causing organisms closer together, leading to a rise in cases. Global warming can also make some conditions more severe and affect how well people fight off infections.
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Vanuatu, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, launches ambitious climate plan
The Pacific country has committed to 100% renewable energy in electricity generation by 2030
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How the historic climate bill will dramatically reduce U.S. emissions
The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to cut roughly a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year by 2030, save thousands of lives a year, and prompt a transformation of the U.S. energy and transportation landscape.
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Can Biden’s climate bill undo the fossil fuel industry’s decades of harm?
The scientists’ warning to the US president on climate crisis was stark: the world’s countries were conducting a vast, dangerous experiment through their enormous release of planet-heating emissions, which threaten to be “deleterious from the point of view of human beings”. Some sort of remedial action was needed, they urged.
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Dead bodies keep emerging from the ice after years locked away in glaciers
Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are melting due to climate change, revealing previously preserved dead bodies.
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The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action
Individual choices and habits help the climate. Understanding how people think can make it happen.
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'We're back, baby': New bill boosts US climate credibility
After a moment when hopes dimmed that the United States could become an international leader on climate change, legislation that Congress is poised to approve could rejuvenate the country’s reputation and bolster its efforts to push other nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly.
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