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Antarctica's weird green snow set to spread due to climate change, scientists predict
It's not grass growing along the Antarctic Peninsula. The culprits are a lot smaller.
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Young climate activists call for EU to radically reform farming sector
The EU’s farming sector needs radical reform, and the common agricultural policy (CAP) must be rewritten if the climate crisis is to be tackled, a group of young climate activists will urge. Fridays for Future, founded by teenagers in the wake of Greta Thunberg’s school strikes, will confront the European commission’s vice-president, Frans Timmermans, online to call for new plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, and replace subsidies based on the amount of land farmed with payments for farmers supplying public goods, such as clean water, clean air and lower carbon emissions.
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The Arctic Is Unraveling as a Massive Heat Wave Grips the Region
It wouldn’t be spring in the climate change era without a massive heat wave in the Arctic.
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Dust bowl conditions of 1930s US now more than twice as likely to reoccur
Climate breakdown means conditions that wrought devastation across Great Plains could return to region
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It was 29C near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history
Saturday’s steamy reading was posted in Arkhangelsk, Russia, where the average high temperature is around 12 Celsius this time of year.
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Bill Gates Thinks That The 1% Should Foot The Bill To Combat Climate Change
Bill Gates believes that private investors should foot the bill for increased spending on technologies to fight global climate change . He has pledged to commit $2 billion himself. Bill Gates is on a worldwide lobbying campaign to press humanity to innovate their solution of global climate change , making the transition to new types of energy.
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Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say
Oceans rising faster than previously thought, according to survey of 100 specialists
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The Netherlands is slashing emissions by as much as 12 megatons this year—because of a lawsuit
As the Trump administration continues to roll back climate policy in the U.S., including changes to clean car rules that will allow cars to emit nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide than they otherwise would have, the Netherlands is moving in the other direction, rolling out a set of new policies that will drastically cut emissions this year and put the country well on the path to its goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050.
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How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?
Denial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant. Long after their last, desperate claims had collapsed, when they had traction only on “alt-right” conspiracy sites, a hero of the left turns up and gives them more than they could have dreamed of.
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3 times Michael Moore's film Planet of the Humans gets the facts wrong (and 3 times it gets them right)
Environmentalists say the new film has caused untold damage at a time when change has never been more urgent. So why is it so controversial?
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50 Years From Now, Many Densely Populated Parts of the World Could be Too Hot for Humans
By 2070, the world's habitable climate zone will shift so much that billions of people will be pushed past human comfort levels. A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows a "surprisingly narrow" human climate niche—between 52 degrees Fahrenheit to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. And it will shift geographically more in the next 50 years than any time during the past 6,000 years. As a result, up to 3 billion people are "likely to live under climate conditions that are warmer than conditions deemed suitable for human life to flourish," the international team of researchers wrote.
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.
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A Third of the World's Population Could Be Blanketed in Sahara-Like Heat by 2070
Brain geniuses like Elon Musk may want to colonize Mars, which sure. But for simpletons like me, keeping Earth mostly habitable seems like a better use of time and resources.
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Investors urge governments to go green for coronavirus recovery
Major investors, Australian superannuation funds and the International Energy Agency are urging governments to seize the green opportunity to drive economic growth after the coronavirus pandemic and avoid the risks they see in high carbon emitting projects.
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What We Learn from the Coronavirus, We Can Apply to Sustainability
It’s Earth Day. Together, we can heal the planet. Here’s a silver lining in our current global crisis.
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“Believe Science” Is a Bad Response to Denialism
Scientists saw it coming well in advance: a crisis that, left unaddressed, could kill hundreds of thousands of people. The White House ignored it, telling the public the problem was already contained. Maybe, senior officials speculated, it wasn’t a problem at all but another hoax cooked up by the president’s enemies in Congress, or by the Chinese government.
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Why We'll Never Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As The Coronavirus
The delayed COVID-19 response was met with swift condemnation. But outrage about the decades-long delay on climate change continues to be waved away as alarmism.
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Oil prices have fallen below $0 a barrel. What does it mean for the climate?
As the pandemic has shut down much of the global economy—at the same time as a price war on oil—oil prices have cratered. In the U.S., crude oil prices went negative for the first time in history on Monday. Whiting Petroleum, a large shale oil company, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, and hundreds of other oil companies are also now at risk of bankruptcy. Natural gas prices are also falling. At a time when the world needs to transition from fossil fuels to avoid the even bigger catastrophe of climate change, what does the state of the industry mean for the climate?
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An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment
As Earth Day turns fifty, virtually all celebrations and protests are forced online or cancelled, and the Trump Administration is busy gutting the nation’s environmental regulations.
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It's time to let the fossil fuel industry die | Ilana Cohen, Connor Chung and Joseph Winters
On the inaugural Earth Day, Americans flooded streets and college campuses to channel their fears, desire, hopes and longings into their vision for a better future. All these years later, we have failed to heed their call.
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