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Bumblebees' decline points to mass extinction – study
Bumblebees are in drastic decline across Europe and North America owing to hotter and more frequent extremes in temperatures, scientists say. A study suggests the likelihood of a bumblebee population surviving in any given place has declined by 30% in the course of a single human generation. The researchers say the rates of decline appear to be “consistent with a mass extinction”.
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Climate change could lead to increase in dangerous firestorms that were once 'rare'
Scientists fear climate change will cause a once "rare and unique" weather event to become more common, as they race to develop predictive modelling and tools to help them better understand pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCB), commonly referred to as firestorms.
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Early climate models successfully predicted global warming
An evaluation of past climate-model forecasts.
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Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous
Given the summer we have had, media acquiescence in climate change denial, and failure to follow the weight of scientific evidence, looks like culpability.
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Germany: Environmental activists occupy coal plant
Protesters have broken into a German coal plant, saying plans to open it this summer were "a nail in the coffin for our future." The government's coal commission has advised against opening the plant.
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In the ground and off the page: why we’re banning ads from fossil fuels extractors
The Guardian has become the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels. Here, we hear from readers on their reaction, and our interim chief executive explains the policy change
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'They're Done': CNBC's Jim Cramer Says Fossil Fuel Industry 'In the Death Knell Phase'
Climate campaigners drew attention to CNBC's Jim Cramer's comments on Friday, January 31 that he's “done with fossil fuels” because they're “in the death knell phase.” Cramer added that “the world's turned on” the industry as they did with tobacco.
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Global heating may lead to wine shortage
Rise of 2C would cause 56% loss of vineyard land, while 4C would wipe out 85%
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Climate change could damage thousands of U.S. bridges, engineers say
Bridges built after World War II are susceptible to temperature variations, making them more likely to fail because of climate change, two civil engineers have found. Drastic fluctuations in climate, often blamed on humans, could cause significant deterioration to tens of thousands of steel-girder bridges across the United States, a study from Colorado State University civil engineers Susan Palu and Hussam N. Mahmoud concluded.
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Why bamboo is a super plant which can help combat climate change (6 amazing benefits and more)
Since I was a child I always felt a very close connection to nature and bamboo always had a very close place to my heart. At that time it was only in the form of decorative shrubs in my aunties garden which captivated me and since then I was a fan.
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Make big polluters pay for mass tree planting, officials say
Oil companies and airlines could fund 100m trees a year, says Committee on Climate Change
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Climate experts agree: "Steve Mnuchin should go back to college" — not Greta Thunberg
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was criticized by scientists after he claimed that teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg should not criticize American fossil fuel investments until she studies economics in college.
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Ancient Viruses Trapped in Glaciers for Thousands of Years Could Be Released By Climate Crisis: Study
"We've opened up a Pandora's box with climate change."
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Planet Just Had Costliest Decade for Global Natural Disasters: Insurance Industry Report
The Mississippi Basin floods were among the disasters with a massive price tag.
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Greta Thunberg Addresses Global Elite at Davos: Our House Is Still on Fire
The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech Tuesday to the world leaders and global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, one year after she first condemned the forum for its inaction on climate change. “We don’t need a 'low-carbon economy.' We don’t need to 'lower emissions.' Our emissions have to stop,” Thunberg said. “And until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus, then we must forget about net zero. We need real zero.”
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For the Economy, Climate Risks Are No Longer Theoretical
Last year Australia’s central bank hoped that several interest-rate cuts would mark a turning point for its slowing economy. That was before the worst bushfires in Australia’s history hit tourism, consumer confidence and growth forecasts for this year. There is now a good chance the bank will cut interest rates again soon.
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World needs to prepare for 'millions' of climate refugees: U.N.
The world needs to prepare for a surge in refugees with potentially millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday.
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Hambach Forest: Germany's sluggish coal phaseout sparks anger
Germany plans to phase out coal power by 2038. The embattled Hambach Forest is now protected, but some villages will still have to make way for the last open-pit mines. Activists and local residents are appalled.
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Dr Peter Carter: summarising the lack of "climate emergency" at #COP25
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Trump has savaged the environment. The planet cannot afford a second term
What are the consequences of a second term of Donald Trump? To even consider the question sends the left-leaning mind into a paroxysm. Everything from nuclear war to the utter collapse of American democracy looms large in the imaginations of otherwise sober-minded people.
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