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Potty Trained Cows Are No Joke for the Climate
Researchers are teaching cows to pee in designated places where the urine can be collected, sharply reducing methane emissions.
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Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters
Leaks are driving 30% of the climate crisis and MethaneSat will provide the first first near-comprehensive global view
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'Time to Make Them Pay': Internal Docs Further Expose Exxon Efforts to Spread Climate Lies
"Climate change isn't just a tragedy, it's a crime," said one climate campaigner in response to documents reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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NYC Marchers to Biden: Stop 'Cowering in a Corner' and Declare Climate Emergency
"It's time for Biden to declare a climate emergency and phase out the fossil fuels killing people and wildlife around the world."
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Rural brigades boss hoses down talk of national firefighting force
A key group representing Queensland's volunteer fire brigades pours water on the idea of a "semi-professional firefighting service" akin to the Army Reserve, saying it could alienate those already tackling this year's bushfire season.
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Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought – here’s why
Plants will absorb more carbon dioxide than predicted, meaning models could be overestimating the speed which the planet will heat up
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Dalio: It will cost 'between $5 and $10 trillion a year' to limit climate change or pay for the consequences | CNN Politics
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio joins CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss making clean energy profitable long-term and the likelihood of spending on adaptation rather than mitigation of climate change.
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Saving the African penguin from climate change and overfishing
A hatchery and protected sanctuary in South Africa is boosting penguin numbers.
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The Global Warming "Pause" Never Actually Happened
There’s been much debate these past few years over the cause of the so-called global warming “hiatus”—a pause in the overall uptick up of Earth’s temperature due to cooling at the surface of the Pacific Ocean since the early 2000s. Did climate warming stop? Nope, we just weren’t looking deep enough.
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Climate Change Seen as Top Global Threat
In advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December, many publics around the world name global climate change as a top threat, according to a new Pew Research Center survey measuring perceptions of international challenges. This is particularly true in Latin America and Africa, where majorities in most countries say they are very concerned about this issue.
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Science Confirms 2014 Was Hottest Yet Recorded, On Land And Sea
For the past quarter-century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been gathering data from more than 400 scientists around the world on climate trends. The report on 2014 from these international researchers? On average, it was the hottest year ever — in the ocean, as well as on land. Icebergs float in Iceland's Jökulsárlón glacial lake, where the Vatnajökull glacier is retreating quickly due to global warming.
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Polar bears are in more trouble than we thought
Polar bears have been a face of climate change for years. We’ve long understood that the melting sea ice is drastically reducing their means of foraging for seals, their main food source. We even know that pollution puts their penile bone density at risk. But now, scientists have identified another threat to polar bears: Summer ice melt. Researchers from the University of Wyoming found (paywall) that polar bears aren’t able to adapt to...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: climate change is not science fiction
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been chosen by the French government to join Nobel prizewinners, philosophers, UN secretary generals, spiritual leaders and theologians to make the moral case for the world to act urgently on climate change. Talking at the world’s first summit of conscience for the climate on Tuesday – ahead of the crucial UN climate change meeting in the city in December – the Terminator star and former California governor...
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NOAA: Hottest First Half Of Year In Northern Hemisphere By Stunning 0.36°F
The latest monthly report confirms 2015 will crush previous global temperature records, with the hottest first half of any year since records started being kept 135 years ago.
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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels. The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the...
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Coffee in crisis: the bitter end of our favourite drink?
Drought, flooding, disease - climate change is already threatening the source of our caffeine fix. Are we facing the end of coffee as we know it, asks David Robson.
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The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory. London reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit during the hottest July day ever recorded in the U.K.
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Climate change already rearing its ugly head in Northwest
Unless emissions are cut, there sea levels could rise at a drastically higher rate than originally predicted.
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Animated map illustrates 'striking' retreat of Arctic ice sheet
National Geographic has produced an animated gif showing the "striking" retreat of Arctic ice that has occured over the last few years.
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UK butterfly species at risk of extinction due to climate change, says study
Severe droughts caused by global warming could have a far greater impact on some UK species of butterfly than previously thought
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