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Ice shelf the size of New York City collapses in previously stable East Antarctica
An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists said Friday.
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East Antarctica ice shelf size of New York City collapses amid accelerated melt
Scientists are concerned because an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area that had long been thought to be stable.
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2021 emissions surge leaves less than 10 years to avoid 1.5 degree warming: study
Although carbon emissions dropped sharply in 2020 amid the COVID pandemic, a subsequent surge wiped out any time the decrease may have bought, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. The first year of the pandemic saw emissions decline 11 percent as a number of activities ground to a halt. However, in 2021, as restrictions lifted, they surged 4.8 percent compared to 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide emissions, are the primary cause of climate change.
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Coal's a 'stupid investment' and we're 'sleepwalking to climate catastrophe,' says UN chief Guterres
The U.N. Secretary General issued a stark warning Monday, saying the planet had emerged from last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow with “a certain naïve optimism” and was “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” In remarks delivered to The Economist’s Sustainability Week via video link, Antonio Guterres sketched out a picture of where he felt the world stood when it came to tackling global warming.
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An ancient Himalayan village empties as glaciers vanish
At noon, it is difficult to see without squinting one’s eyes as the sun shines over the snowy landscape of Kumik, one of the oldest and most remote villages in northern India. Located in the Zanskar region of the newly-crafted Union Territory of Ladakh, the village sits on the hem of glaciers that are now gradually receding, revealing the bare dusky surface.
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Why is China appointing judges to combat climate change?
Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country's growing effort to use the power of the courts to address environmental problems -- a little-known story that indicates China could become a champion of legal action on climate.
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Gaping 'sinkholes' opening up on the Arctic seafloor
Melting permafrost is causing parts of the seafloor to collapse.
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Federal Court Rejects Exxon's Attempt to Halt Climate Change Investigations
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court denied ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts from investigating whether the company lied about its knowledge of climate change. The decision was handed down by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which said Exxon couldn’t sue Massachusetts’ Attorney General Maura Healey because it was already doing so in the state court system, as reported by Reuters.
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Cash for grass: Colorado bill would pay to abandon lawns
DENVER (AP) — Facing a historic megadrought all across the American West with no end in sight, Colorado lawmakers, looking for easy and effective ways to conserve water, set their sights on Kentucky Blue Grass.
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The cheapest climate solution? Return half of the planet to nature, this scientist says.
In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a gut-wrenching 68 percent of species since 1970.
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By 2500 earth could be alien to humans
There are many reports based on scientific research that talk about the long-term impacts of climate change — such as rising levels of greenhouse gases, temperatures and sea levels — by the year 2100. The Paris Agreement, for example, requires us to limit warming to under 2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
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Drought robs Amazon communities of 'life-giving' river
Low water levels mean riverside communities lose much of their income and their mode of transport.
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Shareholders asked oil giant Chevron to cut emissions. Now some want the chairman ousted.
A shareholder advocacy group filed papers Tuesday asking investors in the energy giant Chevron to oust the chairman and another board member because of the company’s failure to cut carbon emissions, setting off a campaign to alter significantly the strategy of the nation’s second-largest oil company.
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How badly will Russia's war torpedo hopes for global climate cooperation?
Russia was an international foot dragger on climate solutions before it invaded Ukraine, but it was cooperating on Arctic issues. Are those days over?
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SEC is considering climate disclosure rules for U.S. companies – and facing threats of lawsuits
Better information leads to better decisions – this is the idea behind a regulatory device known as “mandated disclosure.” Mandated disclosures are all around you, from calorie counts on fast food restaurant menus to conversations with doctors around informed consent.
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IPCC Report Reveals How Inequality Makes Climate Change Impacts Worse—And What We Can Do About It
"How vulnerable you are to the impacts of climate change depends on how poor you are, your status in society, and the legacies of colonialism."
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Americans want to be carbon neutral, don’t want to take needed steps
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center announced the results of polling that asked the US public its thoughts on how to address climate change. While the usual partisan split was apparent, the survey highlights an even larger challenge that policymakers will face: the US public supports contradictory things when it comes to climate policy.
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Record growth, record heat, record drought: how will Las Vegas weather the climate crisis?
‘One day this place will be uninhabitable. The question I pose when people say that is, “Who gets to leave?”’ asks a biologist. Away from the lights and fountains of the Las Vegas Strip, bulldozers are working overtime as the suburbs of Sin City are bursting out of their seams. Las Vegas is growing at a staggering rate. Clark county, where the city is located, is home to roughly 2.3 million people, but forecasts predict the population could go beyond 4 million by 2055.
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IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown
Climate breakdown is accelerating rapidly, many of the impacts will be more severe than predicted and there is only a narrow chance left of avoiding its worst ravages, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said.
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Moth that causes rash is spreading due to warming temperatures, scientists find
The browntail moth is a scourge in America's most forested state, where it defoliates trees and causes a rash in humans that resembles poison ivy.
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