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Richer countries must do more to help those already experiencing the climate crisis
Our research has brought us into contact with multiple communities whose lives are increasingly precarious thanks to climate change.
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Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on the sun
A prominent scientific journal has retracted a study claiming that climate change was due to solar cycles rather than human activity. Last year, Scientific Reports came under fire for publishing a paper that researchers said made elementary mistakes about how Earth moves around the sun.
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Voting for the Safe Choice Means Doom for Us All
The centrists’ Hail Mary worked: While Mike Bloomberg set hundreds of millions on fire to win American Samoa, it turns out former Vice President Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina was a far better investment. His rivals dropped out and endorsed him, and he surged on Super Tuesday.
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Youth activists appeal ruling that they can't sue government over climate change
Attorneys for 21 youth climate activists are filing an appeal after a judge ruled they cannot sue the federal government for failure to act on climate change. The activists sought a court order to force the government to phase out the use of fossil fuels, but a panel of three judges in January ruled such a decision was beyond the reach of the judicial branch.
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This 'Blood-Red' Snow Is Taking Over Parts of Antarctica
After a month of record-breaking temperatures, a kind of snow algae that turns ruby-hued in warm temperatures thrives.
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Moscow winter 'warmest since records began': weather service
Russia's capital Moscow, which for the past months has largely been deprived of its traditional seasonal covering of snow, has seen its warmest winter since records began, the state weather service said on Saturday. The head of Russia's forecasting centre Roman Vilfand told the TASS news agency that the average temperature in Russia from December to February has been some 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous record of minus 2.8 degrees seen in the winter of 1960-1961.
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In Moscow, people adjust to a winter without snow: 'It's like we're at a resort'
Russians have been adjusting to a winter almost without snow in Moscow amid record warm temperatures.
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Mark Reynolds: “Here Are Three Things We Can Do To Inspire The Next Generation About Sustainability”
Let your kids know that there’s still time, and there’s hope. It would be terrifying and demotivating for the next generation to think the climate is beyond repair — and the science simply doesn’t support that conclusion. So, educate them about the reality and the urgency of the problem, but educate them about the abundance of possible solutions, too. We had several hundred high school and college aged students attend our annual conference this past June, who were inspired and engaged at the prospect of an aggressive nationwide carbon price.
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Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on 60,000 more food seeds
A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural bounty in case of global catastrophe.
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Uber and Lyft generate 70 percent more pollution than trips they displace: study
It’s a tall order, but both companies have shown a willingness to reduce their carbon footprint
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A Billionaire Who Funds Climate Denial Is No Longer on American Museum of Natural History Board
Billionaire Rebekah Mercer, who with her father Robert Mercer has poured millions of dollars into climate-denying organizations, candidates, and media, is off the board of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
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Natural gas is a much ‘dirtier’ energy source than we thought
Coal, oil, and gas are responsible for much more atmospheric methane, the super-potent warming gas, than previously known.
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Arctic 'doomsday' food vault welcomes millionth seed variety
A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food
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Heat wave melts 20% of snow cover from Antarctic island in days
It's the third major melt event of the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer, NASA says.
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Climate change could be a 'catastrophic' national security threat, report warns
Climate change could turn into a "catastrophic" threat to national and global security in the coming decades, warns a new report released Monday. "Even at scenarios of low warming, each region of the world will face severe risks to national and global security in the next three decades," the report states. "Higher levels of warming will pose catastrophic, and likely irreversible, global security risks over the course of the 21st century."
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Climate change is drying up the Colorado River
Less snow means more evaporation in a critical water resource
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U.S. blocking G20 mention of climate change in draft communique, diplomats say
The United States is against mentioning climate change in the communique of the world’s financial leaders, G20 diplomats said, after a new draft of the joint statement showed the G20 are considering including it as a risk factor to growth.
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Voters Really Care About Climate Change
For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll.
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Climate change is drying up the Colorado River, putting millions at risk of 'severe water shortages'
A new study shows that the Colorado River -- the most important river in the American West -- has seen its flow shrink by 20 percent compared to the last century from warming temperatures due to climate change.
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I've seriously tried to believe capitalism and the planet can coexist, but I've lost faith
Some people might think it's a ridiculous conversation, but for the sake of the planet we need to talk about ending capitalism.
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