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Climate disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020
Intense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced worldwide hit the highest level on record.
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Climate change: Ban all gas boilers from 2025 to reach net-zero
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that no new fossil fuel boilers should be sold from 2025 if the world is to achieve net-zero emissions by the middle of this century. It's one of 400 steps on the road to net-zero proposed by the agency in a special report. The sale of new petrol and diesel cars around the world would end by 2035.
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Britain to treble tree planting by 2024 to fight climate change
Britain said it planned to treble tree planting rates over the next three years to help reach its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of efforts to fight climate change.
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Is Beef the new coal? Climate-friendly eating is on the rise
Eleven Madison Park, a top Manhattan restaurant, is going meatless. The Epicurious cooking site stopped posting new beef recipes. The Culinary Institute of America is promoting "plant-forward" menus. Dozens of colleges, including Harvard and Stanford, are shifting toward "climate-friendly" meals.
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Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis
A third of global food production will be at risk by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at their current rate, new research suggests. Many of the world’s most important food-growing areas will see temperatures increase and rainfall patterns alter drastically if temperatures rise by about 3.7C, the forecast increase if emissions stay high.
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ExxonMobil Wants You to Take Responsibility for Climate Change, Study Says
ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies. It wants you to take responsibility for climate change.
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New research finds native forest logging did not worsen the Black Summer bushfires
Our research is deeply concerning because it signals there are no quick fixes to the ongoing fire crisis afflicting Australia, which is being driven by relentless climate change.
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How melting glaciers have accelerated a shift in Earth’s axis
The axis of the Earth has shifted and moved the locations of the north and south poles. The poles have always wandered very gradually on the globe but in 1995 the north pole turned away from Canada towards Russia and accelerated over the next 15 years, 17 times faster than the previous 15 years.
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America's new climate 'normal' is hotter, wetter, and more extreme
National data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supports what scientists have been shouting for years: The ongoing climate crisis has created a wet, hot, American climate.
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The 1.5℃ global warming limit is not impossible – but without political action it soon will be
Humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5°C this century. But political action will determine whether it actually does. Conflating the two questions amounts to dangerous, misplaced punditry.
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Watching a coral reef die in a warming ocean
The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from any continent. Just below the waves, coral reefs stretch for miles along an underwater mountain chain.
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Opinion: Africans contribute the least to the climate crisis but suffer the most
The UK creates clean energy systems at home, while shackling poorer nations with dirty fossil fuels – now is the time for rich countries to support Africa’s clean energy transition, writes Mohamed Adow.
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'Alarming': World's glaciers are melting faster than ever because of global warming, study says
Most of Earth's glaciers are melting faster than ever because of human-caused climate change, dumping about 328 billion tons of melted ice into the world's oceans each year, according to a new study.
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How This CO2 ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Is Fighting Climate Change
While much of the world took a pause in 2020, climate change did not. And as countries figure out how to reach the goals set in the Paris Agreement, it’s clear that dramatic action—and outside-the-box solutions—are needed to cut emissions. Swiss company Climeworks is working to provide some of those to help reverse climate change with its direct-air-capture technology.
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Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic.
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Earth's axis has been shifted by climate change, study says
Scientists behind the study, said that melting glaciers have contributed to the shift observed in the 1990s.
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Going vegan: can switching to a plant-based diet really save the planet?
The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, is considering a “full vegan diet” to help tackle climate change, saying people will need to make lifestyle changes if the government is to meet its new emissions target of a 78% reduction on 1990 levels by 2035.
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A68 iceberg that was once world’s largest melts away
The iceberg that was once the largest in the world has melted into several small fragments that are no longer worth tracking. A68 weighed billions of tons and was bigger than the size of Norfolk when it broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in the Weddell Sea on the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula in mid-2017.
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John Kerry: Failing to tackle climate change would be ‘beyond catastrophic’
The consequences of not taking further action on climate change would be “beyond catastrophic” for the planet, US climate envoy John Kerry has warned. The former secretary of state said the need to tackle the issue is “extremely urgent” for the whole world.
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China ‘must shut 600 coal-fired plants’ to hit climate target
China must shut down nearly 600 of its coal-fired power plants in the next 10 years, replacing them with renewable electricity generation, to meet its goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, a report has said.
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