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One man’s lonely quest to save the world’s corals draws a following
After working in obscurity for decades, Anuar Abdullah is emerging as an increasingly influential, somewhat unlikely expert on how to revive the world's coral reefs.
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Oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, analysis shows
Seas dominate global weather patterns and the climate crisis is causing profound and damaging changes
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Study: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s
DENVER — Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists’ conclusions, a new study
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Extreme weather caused 18 disasters in US last year, costing $165bn
Disasters costing at least $1bn killed 474 people last year, government figures show
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Climate enforcers need hard evidence, and Friederike Otto has it
World Weather Attribution provides crucial leverage for legal and policy battles.
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How our perception of time shapes our approach to climate change
Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you should use an electric car. Living by the beach is a lot more fun than figuring out when your house will be underwater because of sea level rise.
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Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange and cloudy and in some cases, acidic
This otherwise undeveloped landscape now looks as if an industrial mine has been in operation for decades, and scientists want to know why.
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Here's how many times you need to reuse your reusable grocery bags
The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the world. And in many cases, these efforts have been successful at eliminating new sales of thin, wispy plastic bags that float up into trees, clog waterways, leech microplastics into soil and water and harm marine life. (Of course, these restrictions don’t address the plastic bags already out there that will take centuries to decompose.)
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Skiing in the Alps faces a bleak future thanks to climate change
Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, but the world climate was still largely pre-industrial. With no reason to worry about the weather, tourism took off.
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How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy, and what to watch for in 2023
The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is looking bleak. Russia’s war on Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain and fertilizer feedstock suppliers, tightened global food and energy supplies, which in turn helped spur inflation.
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This Year Was the Beginning of a Green Transition
Switching off fossil fuels is going to be a bumpy ride — an energy disruption.
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El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
Global heating will set the stage for extreme weather everywhere in 2023. The consequences are likely to be cataclysmic.
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Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards ‘popsicle-like’ grasses
As the Arctic warms, concern for the plight of Santa’s favourite sleigh pullers is mounting. But in one small corner of the far flung north – Svalbard – Rudolph and his friends are thriving. Warmer temperatures are boosting plant growth and giving Svalbard reindeer more time to build up fat reserves; they also appear to be shifting their diets towards “popsicle-like” grasses that poke up through the ice and snow, data suggests.
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Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its industry-wide carbon capture proposal
ExxonMobil has been the prime target of activists and politicians angered by the oil industry’s efforts to block action on climate change. Now, newly disclosed documents confirm that the oil company’s reputational woes have extended into the industry itself and threatened to derail Exxon’s biggest climate proposal to date.
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AP photos of climate change around the world in 2022
AP Climate Photos
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Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse
New research finds nearly 30% of land animals could disappear form their local area by 2100 due to climate change and habitat destruction. This is more than double previous predictions.
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Fossil Fuel Villain of the Year: Shell CEO Ben van Beurden
Natural gas causes methane emissions. Ben can’t handle hearing that, apparently.
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Bill Gates: 'Our grandchildren will grow up in a world that is dramatically worse off' if we don't fix climate change
In a letter published Tuesday on his personal blog, Bill Gates addresses areas he has been focusing on in the past year and what lies ahead.
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Earth's next mass extinction 'will happen by 2100 killing quarter of species'
More than a quarter of the world’s animals and plants will go extinct by the end of the century, warns a new study. The terrifying conclusion comes after scientists consulted one of Europe’s most advanced supercomputers.
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European Union reaches agreement on pivotal carbon market deal
European Union negotiators reached agreement early on Sunday on overhauling the bloc’s carbon market, the bloc’s main policy tool for fighting global warming, the Czech EU presidency and the European Council said.
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