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China is on track to meet its climate change goals nine years early
China appears on track to reach its carbon goals up to nine years earlier than planned under the Paris agreement, in a potential huge boost for efforts to tackle climate change.
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Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis
About 350m trees have been planted in a single day in Ethiopia, according to a government minister. The planting is part of a national “green legacy” initiative to grow 4bn trees in the country this summer by encouraging every citizen to plant at least 40 seedlings. Public offices have reportedly been shut down in order for civil servants to take part.
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More Than 200 Reindeer Found Dead in Norway, Starved by Climate Change
Researchers recently found more than 200 dead reindeer on the island of Svalbard in Norway; the animals starved to death due to climate change, which is disrupting their access to the plants that they typically eat. Every year, ecologists with the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) survey reindeer populations in Svalbard, an archipelago of glaciers and frozen tundra that lies between Norway and the North Pole.
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We can't expand airports after declaring a climate emergency – let's shift to low-carbon transport instead
The world may finally be waking to the reality of the climate and ecological crisis, after 30 years of inaction. But while the UK government has declared a climate and ecological emergency, ongoing plans for airport expansions suggest we’re flying full-speed towards crisis rather than away from it.
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Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits
Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.
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Charred forests not growing back as expected in Pacific Northwest, researchers say
Certain tree species not growing back in low elevation areas; seedlings struggling to survive in Rocky Mountains due to warming temperatures.
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Europe’s Brutal Heat Wave Could Cause Record Melting of Greenland’s Ice Sheet
If the ice sheet melts entirely it would raise global sea levels by almost 23 feet.
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Most YouTube climate change videos 'oppose the consensus view'
The majority of YouTube videos about the climate crisis oppose the scientific consensus and “hijack” technical terms to make them appear credible, a new study has found. Researchers have warned that users searching the video site to learn about climate science may be exposed to content that goes against mainstream scientific belief.
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Interior whistleblowers say agency has sidelined scientists under Trump
Former Interior Department employees who say they experienced retaliation at the agency for their work on scientific endeavors appeared before lawmakers Thursday, sparking political wrangling over the role of scientists in the Trump administration.
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Europe’s Cities Weren’t Built for This Kind of Heat
A record-breaking heat wave across London, Paris, and Amsterdam is signaling an urgent need for design and cultural changes to combat climate change.
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BHP boss announces $US400m plan to combat 'indisputable' climate crisis
The chief executive of the world’s largest mining company has endorsed drastic action to combat global warming, which he calls “indisputable”, and an emerging crisis. “The planet will survive. Many species may not,” the BHP chief executive officer, Andrew Mackenzie, told a business breakfast in London on Tuesday. “This is a confronting conclusion but as a veteran geologist once said, ‘you can’t argue with a rock’.”
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Climate Change Requires Big Solutions. But Baby Steps Are the Only Way to Go.
Dramatic projects to mitigate climate change often don’t work. Slow, quiet, incremental policies are the planet’s best hope.
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Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland's First Glacier Lost to Climate Change
That may sound like an Onion headline, but alas, it is not. We’ve reached the point in our wild planetary experiment where humans are memorializing the things we’re knowingly wiping out.
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Running the numbers on an insane scheme to save Antarctic ice
It would take a lot. Like a real lot.
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'It never stops': US farmers now face extreme heat wave after floods and trade war
After a year of flooding, Midwest farmers face a stifling heat wave that's spreading across the U.S.
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New York passes its Green New Deal, announces massive offshore wind push
A Green New Deal with an emphasis on the green part.
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Trump invents fake emergencies. Congress should declare a real one on climate
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer say Congress should mobilize all available resources to tackle this crisis now. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently warned that we have eleven years to bring this planet together to stop the worst impacts of climate change. And we are seeing the effects of this emergency today.
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Joshua Trees Are Being Wiped Out by Climate Change
Climate change is set to kill off most of our nation’s Joshua trees by the end of the century, according to a recent study. While some Joshua trees will hang on if humans rapidly lower their carbon emissions, if no action is taken to stop climate change we’ll lose nearly all of these iconic spiky trees, which only live in the area near southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park.
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Chimpanzee Culture Is Disappearing Thanks to Climate Change, Study Finds
Common chimpanzee behaviours, like stripping the leaves from a twig and using it to fish for termites, are becoming more rare according to new research that suggests that human activity is wearing down chimpanzee culture. Culture, in the animal sense, being the diversity of behaviour and the sharing of knowledge between individuals.
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A flood forced this town to move. It could be a model for others hit by the climate crisis
The floodwaters dismantled homes, businesses, the school and churches. As the swollen Mississippi River spilled over the levee, the town of Valmeyer, Illinois, was buried beneath 16 feet of water that stuck around for months. That was 25 years ago, during the Great Flood of 1993.
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