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Satellite reveals Australian coal mines emit much more methane than expected based on national reporting
A group of Dutch scientists has used space instrument TROPOMI to calculate methane emissions from six Australian coal mines. Together, these account for 7 percent of the national coal production, but turn out to emit around 55 percent of what Australia reports for their total coal mining methane emissions.
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What exactly is the problem with sustainability, and where are we going wrong?
We hear the word ‘sustainability‘ a lot these days, but what does it actually mean? Sustainability was an incredibly important concept, yet in the 21st century, it has become a slogan thrown around by businesses in an attempt to appear as if they care while doing the bare minimum to be quote on quote “sustainable”.
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The Arctic Ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought, new research shows
The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research.
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The climate crisis is messing with birds' body shapes
Researchers studying 15,000 birds in the Amazon rainforest found that nearly all of the birds' bodies have become lighter since the 1980s, losing on average about 2% of their body weight every decade.
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The fashion, aviation and agricultural workers quitting over climate change
Millions of people go to work in high-polluting industries every day. But at what point does consciousness about climate change collide with your role in driving it? These workers share why they quit their jobs over the crisis.
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World should shut nearly 3,000 coal plants to keep on climate track -study
The world will need to shut down nearly 3,000 coal-fired power plants before 2030 if it is to have a chance of keeping temperature rises within 1.5 Celsius, according to research by climate think tank TransitionZero.
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Dead Sea evaporates as global warming ramps up
As much as some deny the existence of global warming, the Dead Sea, like Lake Tuz in Turkey, begs to differ.
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COP26 finally framed climate change as a public health issue, experts say
That message that global warming contributes to public health risks resonated at COP26 more than it has at previous United Nations climate summits, according to experts who have been attending the talks for years.
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Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US
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Big Gas says it's a "cancel culture" victim. The satire writes itself.
The persecution complex runs deep. And the satire just writes itself.
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Greenpeace sues Volkswagen for fuelling the climate crisis and violating future freedom and property rights - Greenpeace International
Braunschweig, Germany – Greenpeace Germany today filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen (VW), the world’s second largest car manufacturer, for failing to decarbonise the company in line with the 1.5°C goal agreed in Paris. At the end of October, VW rejected Greenpeace’s legal demand to reduce its CO2 emissions faster and to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2030 at the latest.
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Giant desert solar farms might have unintended climate consequences
The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon — the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In fact, the 10 largest solar plants around the world are all in deserts or dry regions.
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What Would It Look Like If We Treated Climate Change as an Actual Emergency?
If we accept the facts of climate change, we also have to accept the radical changes necessary to address it.
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13 million tonnes mined a day show why China and India won't quit coal
There's a reason India and China defended coal's future at the Glasgow climate summit: No nations have added more coal-fired power-plant capacity in the past decade than these two major emitters. China and India are currently mining a combined 13 million tonnes a day of the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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COP26 climate deal: 'It won't save us from drowning'
Young activists on the frontline of climate change explain what the deal struck at COP26 means to them.
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Should I have children? Weighing parenthood amid the climate crisis
One evening last summer, I was running through a damp field on my farm in Vermont with my 10-year-old and a passel of dogs. We were barefoot and laughing. Suddenly, my daughter turned to me with a serious look in her eyes. “I didn’t realize things were going to get so bad so soon,” she said. “What things?” I asked. Was she thinking about the heatwave in Vermont, forest fires in California or the pandemic?
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Meet the ‘inactivists’, tangling up the climate crisis in culture wars
The long read: As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent
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‘World designed by men has destroyed many things,’ Cop26 warned
“The world as designed by men has destroyed many things,” Cop26 delegates have been told, as leaders and campaigners warned that the climate crisis could not be ended without the empowerment of women. Women and girls around the world suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate breakdown, as they are on average poorer, less educated and more dependent on subsistence farming. A UN report found 80% of those displaced by the climate emergency are women.
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The new Global Methane Pledge can buy time while the world drastically reduces fossil fuel use
There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. Of those four, the global methane pledge could have the most immediate impact on Earth’s climate – provided countries follow through on their pledges and satellite monitoring works as effectively as advertised.
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Rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihood of those on a fragile U.S. coast
Climate change's impact on a South Carolina community can be told through the stories of a dying forest, a fisherman with no bait and a queen fighting to protect a way of life on ancestral land.
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