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Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do
The only way to really address the climate crisis is through politics, policymakers and legislation.
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Big Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed
Climate-conscious individual choices are good–but not nearly enough to save the planet. Personal virtue is an eternally seductive goal in progressive movements, and the climate movement is no exception. People pop up all the time to boast of their domestic arrangements or chastise others for what they eat or how they get around.
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An incredibly resilient coral in the Great Barrier Reef offers hope for the future
A coral the size of a carousel is the widest known in the Great Barrier Reef. Found just off the coast of Goolboodi Island in Northeast Australia, this reef-building Porites measures 10.4 meters in diameter — earning it the nickname Muga dhambi, or “big coral,” from the Indigenous custodians of the island, the Manbarra people.
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China to pursue bigger ocean carbon sinks to help meet climate goals
China will explore ways to increase its ocean "carbon sink" and enhance climate resilience in its marine ecological system as part of its pledge to reduce greenhouse gases to net zero by 2060, officials said.
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Madagascar on the brink of climate change-induced famine
The country is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine", the UN says.
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Europe’s July floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study
One river basin might have seen a 1-in-15,000 year event.
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Greece plans to name heatwaves in the same way as storms
Spurred on by this summer’s record temperatures, Greek scientists have begun discussing the need to name and rank heatwaves, better known for their invisibility, before rampant wildfires made the realities of the climate crisis increasingly stark.
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The Colorado River is shrinking. Hard choices lie ahead, this scientist warns
On a spring morning in 1996, then–Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt stood at Glen Canyon Dam, a concrete bulwark in Arizona that holds back the Colorado River to form Lake Powell. During a live broadcast on the Today show, a popular national TV program, Babbitt opened valves to unleash an unprecedented experimental flood into the Grand Canyon just downstream.
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Top law firms taking on more fossil fuel work as planet warms - report
Despite mounting concerns over climate change, U.S. law firms are handling ever more deals and litigation for the fossil fuel industry, according to a law student group that aims to name and shame firms for their work on behalf of polluting companies.
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Opinion | Three Years After Greta Thunberg’s Strike, Adults Are Failing Children on a Global Scale
'We will not allow the world to look away.'
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Facebook pledges to restore more water than it uses by 2030 as part of effort to combat climate change
Facebook announced plans Thursday to restore more water than it consumes by the year 2030, the company’s latest initiative targeting climate change. The company mostly uses water for cooling the banks of computers that run in its data centers. In 2020, Facebook said, it withdrew 3.7 million cubic meters of water — a volume equivalent to nearly 1,500 Olympic-size swimming pools — or a total consumption of 2.2 million cubic meters.
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It Rained at the Summit of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time Ever Recorded
Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain.
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‘Green steel’: Swedish company ships first batch made without using coal
The world’s first customer delivery of “green steel” produced without using coal is taking place in Sweden, according to its manufacturer. The Swedish venture Hybrit said it was delivering the steel to truck-maker Volvo AB as a trial run before full commercial production in 2026. Volvo has said it will start production in 2021 of prototype vehicles and components from the green steel.
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A billion children at ‘extreme risk’ from climate impacts
Almost half the world’s 2.2 billion children are already at “extremely high risk” from the impacts of the climate crisis and pollution, according to a report from Unicef. The UN agency’s head called the situation “unimaginably dire”. Nearly every child around the world was at risk from at least one of these impacts today, including heatwaves, floods, cyclones, disease, drought, and air pollution, the report said. But 1 billion children live in 33 countries facing three or four impacts simultaneously. The countries include India, Nigeria and the Philippines, and much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Can going vegan save the world?
As concern about environmental catastrophe deepens, Harry Cockburn tries to digest exactly how our diets may be making things worse and what action must be taken.
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How solar power can become a small part of Big Oil's future
Oil and gas companies are working hard on their messaging in the climate change era. If it’s “code red for humanity” as the UN’s IPCC said last Monday in its latest dire climate report, it’s some sort of “code red” for the fossil fuels industry too, in terms of figuring out how to stay relevant, believable — and for the market, investable — in an era of carbon emissions reduction mandates from governments, regulators and shareholders.
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July 2021 was officially the hottest month ever
July 2021 was officially the hottest month in recorded history, according to new data released Friday (Aug. 13) by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Greta Thunberg says global warming's 'worst consequences' can be avoided
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says people can still avoid "the worst consequences" of climate change, but only if we treat it for what it is: "a crisis". Ms Thunberg, 18, made the comments after a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the world's most authoritative body on climate science made up of hundreds of scientists and governments — warned the Earth could be a decade away from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
As the world's top climate scientists released a report full of warnings this week, they kept insisting that the world still has a chance to avoid the worst effects of climate change. "It is still possible to forestall most of the dire impacts, but it really requires unprecedented, transformational change," said Ko Barrett, vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "The idea that there still is a pathway forward, I think, is a point that should give us some hope."
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July was Earth's hottest month on record
July 2021 was the planet’s hottest month ever recorded, according to data released Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA
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