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Guardian and Observer appeal raises £1m for tree charities
The Guardian and Observer 2019 charity appeal has raised more than £1m for its climate emergency campaign in support of projects which aim to plant and protect trees, woodlands and rainforest. More than 13,000 readers donated an average of £75 each to the appeal, which totalled £1,015,000 on Thursday night. The money will be shared between four charities: Woodland Trust, Trees for Life, Trees for Cities and Global Greengrants Fund UK.
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German officials agree plan to exit coal-fired power by 2038
Germany will pay utility companies billions of euros to speed up the shutdown of their coal-fired power plants as part of the country’s efforts to fight climate change, the government said Thursday. The agreement reached after late-night deliberations between federal ministers and representatives of four coal-mining states removes a key hurdle in Germany’s plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades.
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YouTube ads of 100 top brands fund climate misinformation – study
Some of the biggest companies in the world are funding climate misinformation by advertising on YouTube, according to a study from activist group Avaaz. The group found that more than 100 brands had adverts running on YouTube videos on the site that were actively promoting climate misinformation. The brands, including Samsung, L’Oreal and Decathlon, were unaware that their adverts were being played before and during the videos.
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The World's Oceans Are the Hottest They've Ever Been in Recorded History
A new study reveals that the change in oceanic temperature is equivalent to the detonation of five atomic bombs every second for 25 years.
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Humans Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet — Capitalism Is
One of the biggest ironies of the right-wing trope accusing socialists of wanting “free stuff” is that in reality, the entire capitalist economy would immediately collapse if it couldn’t continue to rely on free stuff. Without free or artificially cheap access to things like natural resources, care work, labor and a whole array of other elements, capitalism could not stay afloat. In fact, the only way that capitalism was ever able to even emerge was through a process of “primitive accumulation” — where things like slavery and colonialism were utilized to extract free labor and resources.
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How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to advance digital technology and automation in the oilfield,” according to the Houston Chronicle. Yet the partnership has ramifications far beyond Houston’s energy corridor: It’s part of a growing trend that sees major tech companies teaming with oil giants to use automation, AI, and big data services to enhance oil exploration, extraction, and production.
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The Amazon is a key buffer against climate change. A new study warns wildfires could decimate it
When healthy, the Amazon rainforest is one of the planet's most critical defenses against further climate change. But a new study warns that this key barrier is in danger due to increasing wildfires, and that the forest could begin contributing more heat-trapping carbon to the atmosphere than it absorbs in the coming decades.
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Grass found growing around Mount Everest as warming climate melts ice
Grasses and shrubs have been found growing in increased numbers around Mount Everest and across the Himalayas as ice in the area continues to melt. Scientists used satellite data to study the proliferation of subnival vegetation – plants which grow between the treeline and snowline – in the vast region.
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Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago
Fires in the country have burned more than 8 million hectares and killed at least 24 people.
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How to build a circular economy that recycles carbon
The right way to think about and support carbon capture and utilization.
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How Long Will Australia Be Livable?
Facing a future of fire, drought, and rising oceans, Australians will have to weigh the choice between getting out early or staying to fight.
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What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring?
2019 has been called the year we woke up to climate change. Australia’s wildfires are yet more evidence that it’s time we started acting like it.
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Global Warming destroys Safe places for a polar bear to give birth
In May 2000, the United States added the polar bear to the list of threatened species protected under the US. Endangered Species Act. Activists had supported the listing for a number of years, recognizing that polar ice cap was melting at even a greater rate than predicted
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Get ready for tens of millions of climate refugees
Researchers are creating models of where people will move when climate shocks hit, but so far we’re just making educated guesses.
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Australia Won’t Stop Burning
Australia is caught in a climate spiral. For the past few decades, the arid and affluent country of 25 million has padded out its economy—otherwise dominated by sandy beaches and a bustling service sector—by selling coal to the world. As the East Asian economies have grown, Australia has been all too happy to keep their lights on. Exporting food, fiber, and minerals to Asia has helped Australia achieve three decades of nearly relentless growth: Oz has not had a technical recession, defined as two successive quarters of economic contraction, since July 1991.
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The Amazon Rainforest Is About To Cross An Irreversible Threshold, Top Scientists Say
That's because humans have been cutting and burning the forest, which allows moisture to escape the ecosystem.
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Even Trump's handpicked scientists balk at his approach to science
It wasn't long after Donald Trump and his team took office that they looked for ways to make things easier for polluters. Among the first steps was overhauling the EPA's Scientific Advisory Board: many scholars with academic backgrounds were out, scientists with industry ties were in.
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Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen.
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A warning from ancient tree rings: The Americas are prone to catastrophic, simultaneous droughts
Strong La Niña conditions drove medieval droughts
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The Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs -- study
If we want to avoid the possibly catastrophic effects of climate change, we’re going to have to transition to renewable energy as soon as possible. That will mean jobs will be lost in the fossil fuel industry, but a new study out of Stanford University shows a lot of jobs would be created. The study was recently published in the journal One Earth.
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