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Disasters are moving to new places faster than we’re keeping up with them
The range of possible disasters is growing for communities across America.
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July 2023 was the hottest month on Earth since at least 1880 'by a longshot,' NASA says
"A year like this gives us a glimpse at how rising temperatures and heavier rains can impact our society and stress critical infrastructure over the next decade."
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‘Never seen that much rain’: Quebec farmers say climate change killing crops | Globalnews.ca
Quebec farmers are demanding more help from the provincial government in order to face the rise in extreme weather events, which they say are killing crops on a massive scale.
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The latest weapon against climate change is concrete
Carbon removal is a hot topic in sustainability, with many companies involved in direct air capture. But now, a Dublin company is turning surplus concrete into a low-cost, carbon removal tool via a process called 'enhanced weathering'. Silicate is the first enhanced weathering company to leverage the massive carbon removal potential of surplus concrete. This is the first time concrete has ever been used in this way.
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Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.
A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.
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Solar storm on Thursday expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states
A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere. Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most often seen in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, but an 11-year solar cycle that's expected to peak in 2024 is making the lights visible in places farther to the south. Three months ago, the light displays were visible in Arizona, marking the third severe geomagnetic storm since the current solar cycle began in 2019.
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The ground is deforming, and buildings aren’t ready
First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure
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Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row
For three days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments when the average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit, on Tuesday, as millions of Americans celebrated the Fourth of July, data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows.
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Last month was the planet's hottest June on record by a huge margin
June was the hottest such month on record for the planet by a “substantial margin,” the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Thursday.
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Yes, it’s hot. But this could be one of the coolest summers of the rest of your life.
Heat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better.
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El Niño has officially begun. UN says phenomenon likely to threaten lives, break temperature records
The warmest year ever recorded, 2016, started off with a powerful El Nino that helped to boost global temperatures.
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How We Scapegoat Climate Change Migrants
Why we are not more positive toward those displaced by climate change?
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Canada marks worst wildfire season on record
Smoke emitting from Canadian wildfires has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is now drifting across western Europe as Canada marks its worst wildfire season on record.
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Constitutional climate trial ends, verdict could take 'months'
The nation’s first youth-led constitutional climate trial ended Tuesday in Helena. Sixteen young people are suing Montana state leaders for allegedly violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by promoting fossil fuel policies and contributing to climate change.
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Positive environmental stories: A 2023 roundup
Eco-anxiety, climate doom, environmental existential dread - as green journalists, we see these terms used a lot - and often feel them ourselves. While there's a lot to be worried about when it comes to the climate and nature crises, we must not lose hope - because hopelessness breeds apathy.
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Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shifted Earth’s axis
Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to make Earth's poles drift by 80 centimetres
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Climate expert: ‘The harm will get worse’
Scientific testimony figures prominently in second day of Held v. Montana climate trial.
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'A war for water': Europe sounds the alarm on water stress ahead of another extreme summer
European lawmakers issued a stark warning about the region’s growing water crisis ahead of another extreme summer, saying there is a pressing need to tackle issues such as scarcity, food security and pollution.
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‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial
Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change at the young age of four, when his parents showed him the documentary Chasing Ice. “I understood it more than my parents thought I would,” he testified in a groundbreaking trial on Tuesday. “I just knew something bad was happening, but I didn’t know exactly what it was.”
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2 out of 3 North American bird species face extinction. Here's how we can save them
As the climate crisis worsens, so does pressure on wildlife. The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years.
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