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Terrified of Climate Change? You Might Have Eco-Anxiety
Under the bright white lights of a central London exhibition space, a few dozen people are sorting themselves into groups. An instructor tells those that feel extremely worried about climate change to go to the far end of the room. Those that are less worried should stay closer to her. Moments later, she is mostly alone. Thirty feet away, strangers awkwardly cram together, signaling that they suffer “eco-anxiety.”
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The Australian government tackles climate change threats
Approximately 75 Victoria Police and 150 ADF personnel, including elements of the Army Reserve’s 4th Brigade, participated in the exercise held at the AGL Loy Yang Power Station facility in the La Trobe Valley.
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Voters want more climate-change debate, but the Democratic event gave less than 10 minutes to the issue
That’s how the numbers stacked up during last night’s 2020 presidential debate for the disappointed founders at Our Daily Planet, a National Geographic and Walton Family Foundation-backed environmental policy crib sheet circulated every morning.
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The climate science is clear: it's now or never to avert catastrophe
The one thing never to forget about global warming is that it’s a timed test. It’s ignoble and dangerous to delay progress on any important issue, of course – if, in 2020, America continues to ignore the healthcare needs of many of its citizens, those people will sicken, die, go bankrupt. The damage will be very real. But that damage won’t make it harder, come 2021 or 2025 or 2030, to do the right thing about healthcare.
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Companies that fail to tackle climate change will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange, Labour announces
Companies that fail to act on the climate change they cause will be axed from the stock exchange, under radical Labour plans. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, pledged his government would ensure firms are “pulling their weight” to tackle the “existential threat” to the planet.
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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.
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Deadly virus spreads among marine mammals as Arctic ice melts
When sea otters in Alaska were diagnosed with phocine distemper virus (PDV) in 2004, scientists were confused. The pathogen in the Morbillivirus genus that contains viruses like measles had then only…
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'Shocking': Scientists — including Venetians — sound alarm as Venice floods
For Venetians, water is a way of life. It surrounds the city, ebbing and flowing, and at certain times of the year — usually in the fall — the tide swells, spilling water into the narrow streets and swamping the grand piazzas. But Alberto Canestrelli, who was born and raised in Venice and spent two years working on flood forecasts for it, said the intense flooding this week in the lagoon city was unlike anything he has seen in his life.
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Climate activists block Geneva airport's private-jet terminal
Climate-change activists blocked Geneva airport’s private jet terminal on Saturday in protest against what they said is an absurd form of transport. Geneva is a hub for the private jets of the rich and powerful who either live nearby or travel to the lakeside city for its private banks, auction houses, hospitals and United Nations offices.
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Pope Francis considers introducing new 'ecological sin'
Pope Francis is considering introducing 'ecological sins' in a new bid to battle climate change. Speaking in Rome on Friday, Pope Francis said it's 'a duty' to introduce the new sin to the Catholic Church's teachings as a way to protect 'our common home'.
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Climate change's future of pain and disease isn't imminent, it's already here
We often talk about climate change in terms of melting icebergs, rising seawater, and elevated temperatures, but what about the impact of climate change on our health…today? A new report from The Lancet Countdown shows that climate change is already harming human health worldwide, especially young children and the elderly. The report also presents the lifelong health consequences that a child born today will face if the world continues on its current climate path.
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One Thing We Can Do: Balance Our Energy Demand
Also this week, the carbon footprint of the very, very wealthy
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Greta Thunberg leaves US with simple climate crisis message: vote
As Greta Thunberg departs the US to sail across the Atlantic for the second time in a few months, she is leaving behind a simple message for those who care about the climate crisis: you must vote.
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The most destructive hurricanes are hitting US more often
Big, destructive hurricanes are hitting the U.S. three times more frequently than they did a century ago, according to a new study. Experts generally measure a hurricane’s destruction by adding up how much damage it did to people and cities. That can overlook storms that are powerful, but that hit only sparsely populated areas.
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If the US military is facing up to the climate crisis, shouldn't we all?
We have heard from the scientists on climate change, with their meticulous data on ecosystem degradation and species loss. We have heard from the climate deniers, with their desperate attempts to deploy countervailing arguments. Both groups have mobilized substantial blocs of voters in pivotal countries, producing gridlock in global efforts to slow the pace of global warming.
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Even the defiant Taku Glacier, long resistant to warming, has started shrinking
Even the mighty fall.
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Why We Need to Protect Government Scientists from Political Retaliation
Though it seems like an eternity ago, it was only last month that President Trump presented a doctored hurricane forecast to back up his previous tweets that Alabama would likely be hit by Hurricane Dorian — a claim that National Weather Service’s (NWS) Birmingham office pointed out was inaccurate — an incident later labeled “Sharpiegate.” Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney reportedly asked Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publicly disavow forecasters’ position that Alabama was not at risk.
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Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked
‘Pernicious’ campaign is unfair on well-meaning people who want to help – expert
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'Greta Thunberg effect' driving growth in carbon offsetting
Growing concern about the climate crisis and the “Greta Thunberg effect” are driving huge increases in individuals and businesses choosing to offset their emissions by investing in carbon-reducing projects in developing countries. NGOs and organisations involved in carbon offsetting have seen as much as a fourfold increase in investment from people who want to try to mitigate their carbon footprints.
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A deadly virus is spreading in marine mammals. Scientists say climate change is to blame.
The study adds to growing research that global warming is having some unexpected impacts on animal and human health.
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