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'This Is Not Over': Alaska Supreme Court Rejects Youth Climate Case
Young Alaskans—and their attorneys—vowed to keep fighting Friday after the Alaska Supreme Court's split decision denying their right to bring a constitutional case challenging the state's fossil fuels policy. "Despite today's decision, we will keep fighting for Alaska's climate future."
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Great Barrier Reef on verge of another mass bleaching after highest temperatures on record
Temperatures over the Great Barrier Reef in December were the highest on record with “alarming” levels of heat that have put the ocean jewel on the verge of another mass bleaching of corals, according to analysis from US government scientists seen by Guardian Australia.
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Rising temperatures threaten future of Winter Olympics, say experts
Only one of 21 previous locations would be able to reliably host Games in future if emissions remain on current path, study shows
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The climate change solution no one wants to talk about
In October 2021, with just weeks to go until COP26, the UK government published more than 20 research documents to accompany its long-awaited net zero strategy. Buried among these was research outlining a controversial proposition: achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will require a “significant reduction” in public demand for high-carbon activities such as “flying and eating ruminant meat and dairy”.
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Enormous 'twilight zone' coral reef discovered off the coast of Tahiti
Scientists made an incredible discovery in November: acres of giant, pristine, rose-shaped corals blossoming from the sea floor in what's known as the ocean's "twilight zone."
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The environmental case for buying a coal mine
Why would those who care about climate change choose to buy up coal mines or oil drilling rights? There's one surprisingly good reason, writes Richard Fisher.
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Dimming Sun's rays should be off-limits, say experts
Planetary-scale engineering schemes designed to cool Earth's surface and lessen the impact of global heating are potentially dangerous and should be blocked by governments, more than 60 policy experts and scientists said on Monday.
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1 in 3 Americans now 'alarmed' by climate change. Why aren't our leaders?
New results from a long-running public opinion survey show that about 1 in 3 Americans is now "alarmed" by global warming. Is it any wonder, given the horrific onslaught of fires, floods, heat waves and other climate disasters we've experienced in the last year alone?
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Tiger sharks move up north as ocean temperatures climb
Tiger sharks normally like to swim around the warm waters of Florida and the Caribbean. However, as the Earth’s ocean temperatures climb to new levels, they can begin to be seen as far north as New England. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports for TODAY.
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Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On
Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself.
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'Off the charts': Weather disasters have cost the US $750 billion over past 5 years
A historic deep freeze that crippled Texas. A deadly hurricane that wreaked havoc from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. A record-shattering heat wave and historic drought in the West. And a devastating, out-of-season tornado outbreak that tore through towns in the Central and Southern US.
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New Study Shows Protecting Ecosystems Takes Priority Over Planting Trees For Carbon Storage
Planting trees is a necessity to help remove carbon from the atmosphere. However, it’s not enough. Yes, there has been a lot of awareness around planting trees. Even Elon Musk has been advocating for planting trees. However, a new study has found that protecting ecosystems should be the first priority.
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Billionaires should focus on climate not space travel, public says
As more and more billionaires jet off into space, public opinion is shifting on where their vast sums of money should be spent.
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Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Ecologists thought these trees had long been torn down in New England. Then Bob Leverett proved them wrong. I meet Bob Leverett in a small gravel parking lot at the end of a quiet residential road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are at the Ice Glen trailhead, half a mile from a Mobil station, and Leverett, along with his wife, Monica Jakuc Leverett, is going to show me one of New England’s rare pockets of old-growth forest.
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Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic
A PERFECT STORM is ravaging the Arctic—literally. As the world warms, more lightning systems are igniting more peat fires. They burn through ancient buried plant material and release great plumes of greenhouse gases, which further warm the planet. At the same time, as plant species march north thanks to a more hospitable climate, the Arctic is greening.
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Dam it: beavers head north to the Arctic as tundra continues to heat up
Dammed rivers could accelerate climate crisis as creatures move into previously inhospitable areas
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Hell on Earth, small town-style: Climate change transformed my life in 2021
Half a mile south of what's left of the old Gold Rush-era town of Greenville, California, Highway 89 climbs steeply in a series of S-turns as familiar to me as my own backyard. From the top of that grade, I've sometimes seen bald eagles soaring over the valley that stretches to the base of Keddie Peak, the northernmost mountain in California's Sierra Nevada range.
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Are People in Denial?
The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.…
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Warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers, say scientists
Warmer winters are happening across the globe, and can be drivers of catastrophic weather events and profound changes
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Devastating Colorado wildfires "climate enabled and weather-driven"
The Boulder, Colorado-area wildfires — the most destructive in state history — were likely made worse by the effects of climate change, including extremely dry conditions and long stretches of record warm weather in recent months.
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