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May was warmest on record for USA, breaking mark set during Dust Bowl
May shattered heat records across the U.S. as sizzling warmth was reported nationwide, federal scientists announced Wednesday. In addition, not only was it the warmest May on record across the country, but almost 8,600 local heat records were also broken or tied during the month.
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When The Fossil Fuel Industry Pops, It Will Be Way Bigger Than The 2008 Financial Crisis
The fossil fuel industry brings in a staggering amount of money to countries all around the world, but that doesn't mean it will last forever.
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Hurricane Season 2018: Experts Warn of Super Storms, Call For New Category 6
As the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season begins, scientists are worried that U.S. coastal communities could face more super storms with winds, storm surges and rainfall so intense that current warning categories don't fully capture the threat. This year's forecast is about average and much more subdued than last summer's hyperactive season turned out to be, partly due to cooler ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, as well as a nascent El Niño pattern. But that doesn't mean an individual storm won't blow up to exceptional strength, as Andrew did before striking Florida in 1992, an otherwise relatively quiet year.
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Investors with $26 trillion in assets urge G7 leaders to act on climate change
Several huge investment firms, including Germany's Allianz Global Investors, have urged G7 leaders to increase their fight against climate change. The pleas will likely fall on deaf ears in the Trump administration.
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The World Is Dangerously Lowballing The Economic Cost Of Climate Change, Study Finds
Leading global forecasts widely underestimate the future costs of climate change, a new paper warns. The findings, to be released Monday in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, say projections used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rely on outdated models and fail to account for “tipping points” ― key moments when global warming rapidly speeds up and becomes irreversible.
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Geoengineering: 'The Voldemort of climate change'
Geoengineering solutions to climate change sound like magic, but a leading proponent says most people working on climate change dare not speak its name.
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A US startup has lit the first fire in its zero-emissions fossil-fuel power plant
The radical new power plant has passed a major milestone in the step towards commercializing a climate-friendly technology.
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Climate Change Made Zombie Ants Even More Cunning
The parasitic fungus that drives ants to sabotage their own colonies has adapted to zombify their quarry better in different climates.
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Global warming linked with rising antibiotic resistance
New research suggests rising temperatures are encouraging antibiotic resistance in cities across the United States. Until now, health researchers assumed antibiotic resistance was primarily the result of overprescription and overuse. But a new study suggests climate change is also to blame. "The effects of climate are increasingly being recognized in a variety of infectious diseases, but so far as we know this is the first time it has been implicated in the distribution of antibiotic resistance over geographies," Derek MacFadden, an infectious disease specialist and...
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8 African cities are aiming to be carbon free by 2050
The continent is highly vulnerable to climate change - but it's starting to fight back.
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Earth Shatters Climate Record, Sending Planet Toward 'Worst Case Scenario'
pril 2018 was the 400th “consecutive month with above-average temperatures” on Earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To clarify, that means December 1984 was the last month the planet had below-average temperatures. It also means we’re headed towards a climate change of 2 degrees Celsius, a number that will have devastating effects on the Earth’s biodiversity.
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Shell faces shareholder challenge over climate change approach
Royal Dutch Shell faces a shareholder challenge over climate change this week, as investors insist oil and gas firms should offer more transparency and action on carbon emissions. A growing number of pension funds have backed a resolution at Shell’s AGM on Tuesday that calls on the company to set tougher carbon targets that are in line with the goals of the Paris climate deal.
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The EU’s plan to set a goal of zero-emissions by 2050 could be a big deal for climate action
When the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, it was a milestone in taking action against climate change. It set a clear goal—to keep global average temperatures from rising above 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels—and got every country on board (including the US, which can’t leave the accord till 2020).
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Big Oil Investors Say More Needed to Tackle Climate Change
Some of the world’s biggest fund managers are ratcheting up the pressure on oil and gas companies, expressing fear that a lack of action over tackling climate change could risk their investments. The comments come days before Big Oil kicks off annual shareholder meetings, where they are already facing calls from smaller investors to set clear targets on climate change and even cut their investments in fossil fuels. That could now gain momentum with the nudge from large investors who manage trillions of dollars of funds.
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Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming
It was December 1984, and President Reagan had just been elected to his second term, Dynasty was the top show on TV and Madonna's Like a Virgin topped the musical charts. It was also the last time the Earth had a cooler-than-average month.
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NASA’s Jim Bridenstine Agrees Humans Are Responsible for Climate Change
It's no secret that the Trump administration has filled cabinet positions and other senior staff jobs with people who reject or ignore established climate science. On Monday, for example, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington that he’s “not going to get into the climate debate.” He also said he could not endorse climate research by one of his own agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose satellites...
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Can Bringing Back Mammoths Help Stop Climate Change?
If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash-landed in some desolate part of the African savannah. But the chilly temperatures and the presence of six-ton shaggy beasts with extremely long tusks would confirm you really were in the Pleistocene epoch, otherwise known as the Ice Age. You’d be visiting the mammoth steppe, an environment that stretched from Spain across Eurasia and the Bering Strait to Canada.
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Linguistic analysis shows oil companies are giving up on climate change
Oil companies don’t like talking about climate change. As the prime movers of fossil fuels, they’d probably prefer not to mention it at all. But sometimes outside pressure forces companies to do things they don’t like. That’s where “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) reports come in. Issued annually by many large companies, these reports assess performance on measures that go beyond the bottom line, like environmental protection or human rights.
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Carbon impact of tourism 'eye-opening'
A new study says global tourism accounts for 8% of carbon emissions, around three times greater than previous estimates. The new assessment is bigger because it includes emissions from travel, plus the full life-cycle of carbon in tourists' food, hotels and shopping. Driving the increase are visitors from affluent countries who travel to other wealthy destinations.
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New study finds climate change threatens Marine Protected Areas
New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and collaborators found that most marine life in Marine Protected Areas will not be able to tolerate warming ocean temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The study found that with continued 'business-as-usual' emissions, the protections currently in place won't matter, because by 2100, warming and reduced oxygen concentration will make Marine Protected Areas uninhabitable by most species currently residing in those areas.
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