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'It makes me angry': is this the end for America's Joshua trees?
Even with major efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, 80% of the trees’ habitat will be whittled away by the end of the century. Joshua trees have dotted the Mojave desert for 2.5m years, but even if humans take urgent action to combat the climate crisis, their decimation is all but ensured by the end of this century, a study has found. Only .02% of the tree’s current habitat in Joshua Tree national park would remain viable amid unmitigated climate change, according to research published in the journal Ecosphere. Even in a best-case scenario, with major efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, 80% of the trees’ habitat will be whittled away.
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What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing.
As warming temperatures dramatically reshape Iceland’s landscape, businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit.
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Here's What Will Happen to Our Cities When They Hit 120 Degrees
Someday in the not-too-distant future, the effective temperatures in New York City will hit 120 degrees. If you were in the five boroughs during the three-day mid-July heat wave where it felt like 110 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service, you got a taste of what extreme heat can do to a city. 50,000 people lost power, the New York Triathlon and other events were canceled, and officials advised people to head to "cooling centers" like libraries and senior centers where they could avoid the heat.
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IPCC report encourages a move to plant-based diets, so how sustainable is Australian meat?
The world's appetite for meat hurts the climate. Here's why Australian steak isn't so bad.
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Climate change could trigger a global food crisis, new U.N. report says
If average global temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius, the risk of food supply instabilities “are projected to be very high,” according to the report.
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Plant-based diet can fight climate change
A major report says the West's high consumption of meat is fuelling global warming.
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Calcium levels in freshwater lakes declining in Europe and North America
A new global study of how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world has revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern North America, calcium levels are declining towards levels that can be critically low for the reproduction and survival of many aquatic organisms.
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Climate change is finally on the agenda for 2020. But is it too late for debating?
Climate change got a brief moment in the spotlight—25 minutes worth of long-overdue conversation on a national political stage at the Democratic debates last week in Detriot. Yours truly was busy live-tweeting the affair for the better part of six hours.
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July Was the Hottest Month in Recorded History
In what may be the week’s most unsurprising news, scientists have officially announced that this past July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. According to data released yesterday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a program of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, last month edged out July 2016, the previous record-holder, for the title.
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Wales at heart of global warming project to plant 1 trillion trees
The face of Wales' countryside would change under an international plan to plant 1 trillion new trees across the world to soak up the carbon dioxide produced since the Industrial Revolution began. Our national parks would become covered in forestry under the Swiss plan, which would see two thirds of the CO2 released since the 18th Century stored in woodland.
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The terrible truth of climate change
In June, I delivered a keynote presentation on Australia’s vulnerability to climate change and our policy challenges at the annual meeting of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the main conference for those working in the climate science community. I saw it as an opportunity to summarise the post-election political and scientific reality we now face.
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Cows genetically modified to burp and fart less could cut methane emissions by half
Scientists have identified genetically inherited gut microbes that regulate how much methane a cow produces.
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Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing
Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
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Siberian Wildfires and Heatwaves in Alaska: How the Arctic Is Nearing a Point of No Return
As the Arctic faces fire caused by climate change, it could have ripple effects that accelerate temperature increases across the world.
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Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter
The extreme heatwave that caused record temperatures last week across Western Europe was made more likely — and severe — by human-induced climate change. In France and the Netherlands, where temperatures rose above 40 °C, climate change made such a heat spell at least 10 times — and possibly 100 times — more likely to occur than a century or so ago. The findings come from a rapid analysis by scientists with the World Weather Attribution group that combined information from models and observations.
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Scientists link Europe heat wave to human-caused global warming | CBC News
The heat wave that smashed temperature records in western Europe last month was made more intense by human-caused climate change, according to a study published Friday. The rapid study by a respected team of European scientists points to an array of evidence that man-made global warming was behind the continent's most recent heat wave. "The July 2019 heat wave was so extreme over continental Western Europe that the observed magnitudes would have been extremely unlikely without climate change," the study concluded.
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Greenland lost 11 billion tons of surface ice in one day
Greenland lost 11 billion tons of surface ice on Thursday, scientists say. The melt is Greenland's biggest of the summer and is equal to about 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools, CNN reported Friday.
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White House ‘undercutting evidence' of climate crisis, says analyst who resigned
A former senior government analyst has accused the Trump administration of “undercutting evidence” of the threat to national security from the climate crisis after his report on the issue was blocked by the White House.
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71% of people in the UK say the “Climate Emergency” is more important than Brexit
The climate emergency is a bigger issue than Brexit for the nearly three-quarters of people in the UK, according to a new poll.
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200 reindeer died on an Arctic Island -- and researchers think climate change is to blame
More than 200 reindeer have been found dead this summer in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard -- and climate change appears to be the killer, researchers say.
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