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The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained
What makes South Asia’s recent severe temperatures so surprising. Nearly one in eight people on Earth are enduring a relentless, lethal heat wave that is stretching into its third week.
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Shut down fossil fuel production sites early to avoid climate chaos, says study
Nearly half of existing fossil fuel production sites need to be shut down early if global heating is to be limited to 1.5C, the internationally agreed goal for avoiding climate catastrophe, according to a new scientific study. The assessment goes beyond the call by the International Energy Agency in 2021 to stop all new fossil fuel development to avoid the worst impacts of global heating, a statement seen as radical at the time.
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Fighting climate change: We must do obvious, dramatic things to give young people hope
If you are a young person and you know that your whole planet is being destroyed and is collapsing all around you, how can you go on in any sense of normalcy? These feelings of despair can be both A) absolutely unhealthy, and B) completely demotivating. Here's how the world can fight to change this oncoming climate change disaster.
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How it feels to suddenly wake up to the climate emergency
For Brenda Gabriel, 39, from London, the tipping point in her climate consciousness was the devastating bushfires that ravaged large swathes of Australia from September 2019 to March 2020. By the time the last fire was extinguished, an estimated 18.6 million hectares (186,000 square kilometres) of land had been razed, with more than 5,900 buildings and homes destroyed, three billion animals harmed, and 34 people dead.
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Climate change to make droughts longer, more common, says UN
The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.
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Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown
Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
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‘It’s a 50-50 call’: The Earth is close to crossing a key temperature threshold within 5 years
There’s a 50-50 chance of surpassing the critical global heating threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next five years, according to a new study. Climate prediction centers, led by the U.K. Met Office, said in an annual update that the chance of the planet temporarily exceeding the key global temperature limit has significantly increased.
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6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Analysts concluded that the new promises, including phasing out coal, would bend the global warming trajectory, though still fall short of the Paris climate agreement.
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How companies blame you for climate change
Businesses shape how we talk about climate change, and sometimes this can stop us from paying attention to their actions.
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Earth’s CO2 hits highest recorded level in human history
Monthly average carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached above 420 parts per million (ppm) for the first time on record. The new data, from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, were released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Atmospheric CO2, driven higher in large part by burning fossil fuels around the world, is one of the major causes of the climate crisis.
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A drought so bad it exposed a long-ago homicide. Getting the water back will be harder than ever
The added heat from global warming has made drought-stricken lands extra-dry. It will take more precipitation than usual to end it.
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Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation
Model suggests that switching to microbial ‘meat’ can cut carbon emissions.
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How to Be a Climate-Change Activist without Becoming an Alarmist
Climate-change deniers have strategies, conscious or unconscious, that attempt to undermine the science by casting doubt on its findings. These serve to reduce what psychologists call “cognitive dissonance” – the clash between our image of the kind of people we think we are and how we actually live. Denialism avoids reality by sowing doubts about facts and consequences, undermining people’s sense of agency, or encouraging the ascription of responsibility away from ourselves as consumers by, for example, blaming “too many Indians and Chinese.”
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Climate change is why New Mexico’s wildfire season started early this year
The smoke emerges, like a white veil draped across the sky, on the drive up from Albuquerque to this picturesque city of 84,000. Historically, New Mexico’s wildfire season begins in May or June, but this year, wildfires sprung up in the drought-parched New Mexican desert in April.
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Marine Animals May Face Mass Extinction Event Within 300 Years Unless Climate Change Is Reversed, Study Finds
Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events in the planet’s history over the next 300 years, a new study published Thursday estimates, but the risk to marine life will plummet if greenhouse gas emissions are controlled.
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Climate anxiety: 75% of young people worldwide find the future 'scary'
A global study conducted in ten countries around the world reveals that 45% of young people suffer from eco-anxiety.
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Sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in New Zealand
Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in some parts of Aotearoa, massively reducing the amount of time authorities have to respond.
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Why climate change could cause the next pandemic
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spreading among animal species by 2070 and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study.
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Weary of many disasters? U.N. says worse to come
A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued Monday says. If current trends continue, the world will go from around 400 disasters per year in 2015 to an onslaught of about 560 catastrophes a year by 2030, the scientific report by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said. By comparison, from 1970 to 2000, the world suffered just 90 to 100 medium- to large-scale disasters a year, the report said.
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More than 11,000 scientists are calling on humanity for a sustainable diet
More than 11,000 scientists signed the November climate warning in the scientific journal BioScience (Ripple et al., 2019). 12 scientific signatories are from Slovenia.
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