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Joshua Trees Will Be All-But-Extinct by 2070 Without Climate Action, Study Warns
More than 80% of California's iconic Joshua trees are likely to die at the hands of drought and fire over the next 50 years — but there's still time to save them from extinction.
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Climate Change Is Scaring Kids. Here’s How to Talk to Them.
Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” In “Geostorm,” released in 2017, the weather goes haywire after satellites malfunction.
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California’s Wildfires Are 500 Percent Larger Due to Climate Change
“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”
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Climate change will expose millions of people in U.S. to "off-the-charts" extreme heat
Global warming will lead to a significant increase in the frequency and severity of extreme heat across the contiguous states, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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These Pictures Of Activists Begging You To Take Climate Change Seriously Are Intense
Extinction Rebellion has made a name for themselves with their disruptive protests in Europe. As they ramp up in the US, here's what Americans can look forward to seeing.
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US Can't Ignore That Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty
Mainstream discussions of the global emergency, writes a top U.N. official, are remarkably out of touch with the scale of the crisis and the economic and social upheaval it will bring.. Climate change is making headlines this summer with record temperatures, devastating floods, and climate-related migration. But in the U.S., mainstream discussions about climate change are remarkably out of touch with the scale of the crisis and the economic and social upheaval it will bring. Political leaders have failed to put forward a vision for avoiding catastrophic consequences or protecting those most affected.
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Unprecedented fires burn the Arctic
A rare fire even ignited in Greenland.
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High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world – here’s how we mapped them - questbuzz.com
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. Since 1990, Indonesia has lost 50% of its original forest, the Amazon 30% and Central Africa 14%. Fires, logging, hunting, road building and fragmentation have heavily damaged more than 30% of those that remain.
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Rising seas are turning Miami's high ground into hot property
Resident of Miami's Little Haiti didn't realize the secret of their neighborhood until the developers starting calling. As some of the area's highest ground, it's become more attractive in the climate crisis. But that may still hurt the locals, activists say.
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Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Plants to Fight Climate Change
Scientists have figured out how to genetically engineer plants to grow deeper roots, potentially improving carbon storage, drought resistance, and flood protection. This research comes as part of the Salk Institute’s Harnessing Plants Initiative, which seeks to use plants to capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the ground.
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As Climate Changes, Hurricanes Get Wetter
The Gulf Coast is being inundated with rain and preparing for possible landfall of a tropical storm. A study of recent hurricanes found that climate change increased rainfall by up to 9 percent.
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Plastic Has A Big Carbon Footprint — But That Isn't The Whole Story
Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. Largely overlooked is how making plastic affects the environment. Plastic is a big contributor to global warming. So are its alternatives.
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Report: US Officials Are Actively Censoring Press Statements on Climate Change
The ramifications were and are terrifying. A study published in March found the threat of rising seas in California has been vastly underestimated.
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The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.
California’s coastline is eroding with every tide and storm, but everything built before we knew better is fixed in place with nowhere to go.
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Treat climate change like the crisis it is, says journalism professor
There have been growing calls from climate scientists and environmental activists for the media to cover the climate crisis with the severity and urgency they say it demands. Some news organizations have begun to make changes. The British newspaper The Guardian recently updated its policies to replace the term "climate change" with "climate emergency, crisis or breakdown." It also now favours "global heating" over "global warming."
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Study: Climate change can be reversed by planting a forest nearly double the size of the U.S.
A new study suggests that human beings could save themselves from the worst ravages of climate change by planting a forest nearly double the size of the area of the United States.
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Adding 1 billion hectares of forest could help check global warming
Global temperatures could rise 1.5° C above industrial levels by as early as 2030 if current trends continue, but trees could help stem this climate crisis. A new analysis finds that adding nearly 1 billion additional hectares of forest could remove two-thirds of the roughly 300 gigatons of carbon humans have added to the atmosphere since the 1800s.
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More than a dozen seabird species in decline off south-east Australia, study finds
The findings are ‘worrying’, researchers say, and are likely to be partly because of warming ocean temperatures
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The Barrage of Bad News About Climate Change Is Triggering 'Eco-Anxiety,' Psychologists Say
According to psychologists, anxiety, grief, and despair about the state of the environment is nothing new. It even has a name: eco-anxiety.
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India is battling intense heatwaves that have killed more than 100 people, and experts warn some areas could soon be too hot for humans to survive
India is dealing with intense heatwaves have killed more than 100 people, and experts warn that parts of the country could become too hot for people to survive. Parts of India exceeded 50 C (122 F) in June — three degrees higher than what the Indian Meteorological Department classifies as a "severe" heat wave.
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