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UN secretary general urges India to swiftly turn away from coal
India must swiftly and permanently turn away from coal despite its need for cheap energy, the UN secretary general has urged, aiming to revive global action on the climate crisis as the world begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. António Guterres told a virtual audience on Friday morning that coal use must be phased out in India, with no new coal-fired power stations after this year, and that fossil fuel subsidies must be ended.
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Everything Is Unprecedented. Welcome To Your Hotter Earth
The upshot of climate change is that everyone alive is destined to experience unprecedented disasters. The most powerful hurricanes, the most intense wildfires, the most prolonged heat waves and the most frequent outbreaks of new diseases are all in our future. Records will be broken, again and again.
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Omission of climate crisis at RNC risks losing voters, some conservatives warn
The Republican national convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed some conservatives who warn the party risks being left behind by voters.
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On Climate Change, We’ve Run Out of Presidential Terms to Waste
The working definition of the ongoing brain seizure that is 2020 is either that Coloradans are being told by state authorities to install smoke-resistant “safe rooms” in their houses, or that Californians now must weigh what kind of mask to wear. An N95 mask helps to filter out harmful particulates from the wildfire smoke that is overwhelming the Golden State, but many come with an exhalation valve to keep the wearer from overheating—and that valve can spread the coronavirus.
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The Observer view on the climate catastrophe facing Earth
Thirty years ago we were warned. Now is our last chance to listen
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The climate crisis has already arrived. Just look to California’s abnormal wildfires
In the last decade, amid drought and searing heat, California has entered the ‘era of megafires’ and has become the ‘examplar for climate change extreme events today’
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Fight to protect Joshua trees faces stiff local opposition in California
Campaigners who say the striking desert plant is endangered hope the state will act but officials complain of ‘red tape’
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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Has Reached ‘Point of No Return’
Greenland's ice sheet has reached the "point of no return" and would continue to melt even if the climate crisis were halted, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment Thursday, used more than 30 years of satellite data to determine that the ice sheet would continue to shrink even if surface melting decreased.
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Extreme weather just devastated 10m acres in the midwest. Expect more of this
I know a stiff wind. They call this place Storm Lake, after all. But until recently most Iowans had never heard of a “derecho”. They have now. Last Monday, a derecho tore 770 miles from Nebraska to Indiana and left a path of destruction up to 50 miles wide over 10m acres of prime cropland. It blew 113 miles per hour at the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River.
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Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, potentially Earth’s highest temperature since at least 1931
If confirmed, it's the planet's highest temperature ever measured in August and third highest any time.
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New Climate Model Predicts the Arctic Would be Sea-Ice Free by 2035
An international team of researchers, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has used a cutting-edge climate modeling system, developed by U.K. Met Office's Hadley Centre to project that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.
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Science has a new tool in the fight against climate change: good data
Founded in 2008 and given European Research Infrastructure Consortium status by the EU Commission in 2015, the Integrated Carbon Observation Systems (ICOS) is a network of 130 carbon-measuring stations (along with expertise centres and laboratories) set up to measure greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, as well as how carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, Earth and oceans.
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Last decade was Earth's hottest on record, exposing grim reality of climate change
A new report released Wednesday details how 2019 was another year of extremes for Earth's climate, adding to a litany of evidence exposing the grim reality of our warming world.
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Melting glaciers will bring instability to more than 1 million Albertans' water supply
A first of its kind study from the University of British Columbia has found that melting glaciers will bring water shortages to one in four people living in Alberta.
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Canada's last intact Arctic ice shelf has collapsed
A 4,000-year-old chunk of ice larger than the size of Manhattan has collapsed into the Arctic Ocean.
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Emissions dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The climate impact won’t last
To curb the spread of COVID-19, much of the globe hunkered down. That inactivity helped slow the spread of the virus and, as a side effect, kept some climate-warming gases out of the air.
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Lockdown has 'negligible' impact on temperatures
The dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants seen during the global lockdown will have little impact on our warming planet say scientists. Their new analysis suggests that by 2030, global temperatures will only be 0.01C lower than expected. But the authors stress that the nature of the recovery could significantly alter the longer term outlook.
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Massachusetts set to pass landmark clean energy law to reach net-zero by 2050
Massachusetts is expected to pass clean energy and climate legislation in the coming months that would require the state to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, dividing conservative groups and environmentalists in atypical ways.
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Bill Gates issued a stark warning for the world: 'As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse'
Gates said to understand the impact climate change will have, we need to "look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time."
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Don't Try to Change the Minds of Climate-Denying Politicians. Vote Them Out
The right to vote is our most powerful tool to tackle climate change
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