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New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted
About 30 massive, intricate computer networks serve the scientists who stand at the forefront of climate change research. Each network runs a software program comprised of millions of lines of code. These programs are computational models that combine the myriads of physical, chemical and biological phenomena that together form the climate of our planet.
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Vanguard refuses to end new fossil fuel investments
The world’s second-largest asset manager Vanguard has refused to stop new investments in fossil fuel projects and end its support for coal, oil and gas production. Chief executive Tim Buckley said the group, which manages $8.1tn for more than 30mn investors and is the largest investor in coal companies globally, was determined to safeguard its clients from climate risks but this would not require it to end new commitments to fossil fuel industries.
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Reversing climate change with net-zero farming
Regrow is a technology start-up which aims to reverse climate change with agriculture. The tech start-up wants to achieve net-zero emissions in farming using technology and data. Regrow tries to transform agriculture to a net-zero carbon system.
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The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same
For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.
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Reducing harmful air pollution has led to a surprising effect — more hurricanes in the North Atlantic
As the US and Europe worked for decades to reduce air pollution for the sake of public health and the planet, scientists found an unintended and challenging consequence: an increase in tropical storms in some regions.
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The extraordinary heat wave in India and Pakistan, explained
What makes South Asia’s recent severe temperatures so surprising. Nearly one in eight people on Earth are enduring a relentless, lethal heat wave that is stretching into its third week.
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Fighting climate change: We must do obvious, dramatic things to give young people hope
If you are a young person and you know that your whole planet is being destroyed and is collapsing all around you, how can you go on in any sense of normalcy? These feelings of despair can be both A) absolutely unhealthy, and B) completely demotivating. Here's how the world can fight to change this oncoming climate change disaster.
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Climate change to make droughts longer, more common, says UN
The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.
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Why our continued use of fossil fuels is creating a financial time bomb
The numbers are startling. We know roughly how much more carbon dioxide we can put into the atmosphere before we exceed our climate goals—limiting warming to 1.5° to 2° C above preindustrial temperatures. From that, we can figure out how much more fossil fuel we can burn before we emit that much carbon dioxide. But when you compare those numbers with our known fossil fuel reserves, things get jaw-dropping.
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Australia says most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached
More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said. Bleaching is caused by global warming, but this is the reef's first bleaching event during a La Niña weather pattern, which is associated with cooler Pacific Ocean temperatures, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority said in its an annual report released late Tuesday that found 91% of the areas surveyed were affected.
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‘It’s a 50-50 call’: The Earth is close to crossing a key temperature threshold within 5 years
There’s a 50-50 chance of surpassing the critical global heating threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next five years, according to a new study. Climate prediction centers, led by the U.K. Met Office, said in an annual update that the chance of the planet temporarily exceeding the key global temperature limit has significantly increased.
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6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Analysts concluded that the new promises, including phasing out coal, would bend the global warming trajectory, though still fall short of the Paris climate agreement.
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Scientists discover a giant groundwater system under the ice sheet in Antarctica
Have you ever stared at the long ice sheets in the Antarctic and wondered what lies beneath? Now, Columbia University researchers have explored this question and found an answer that may surprise you, according to a study published in Science on Thursday.
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Earth’s CO2 hits highest recorded level in human history
Monthly average carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached above 420 parts per million (ppm) for the first time on record. The new data, from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, were released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Atmospheric CO2, driven higher in large part by burning fossil fuels around the world, is one of the major causes of the climate crisis.
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Vast underground water system helps drive Antarctica’s glaciers
Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to just shy of 0° Celsius, thanks to a combination of geothermal warmth, intense friction from ice scraping rock, and that thick glacial blanket protecting it from the polar air. Given the immense pressure down there, that’s just balmy enough to keep the lake’s water watery.
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Machine Learning Helped Scientists Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic at Warp Speed
Earth has a plastics problem, and not many great options to solve it. Plastic is everywhere: food, toiletries, and cleaning products come encased in it; our toothbrushes and children’s toys and disposable coffee lids are made of it; and we carry groceries and dispose of trash in bags of it. It’s impossible to avoid. Yet we don’t often think about the fact that these items will still be around hundreds of years from now.
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How to Be a Climate-Change Activist without Becoming an Alarmist
Climate-change deniers have strategies, conscious or unconscious, that attempt to undermine the science by casting doubt on its findings. These serve to reduce what psychologists call “cognitive dissonance” – the clash between our image of the kind of people we think we are and how we actually live. Denialism avoids reality by sowing doubts about facts and consequences, undermining people’s sense of agency, or encouraging the ascription of responsibility away from ourselves as consumers by, for example, blaming “too many Indians and Chinese.”
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Marine Animals May Face Mass Extinction Event Within 300 Years Unless Climate Change Is Reversed, Study Finds
Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events in the planet’s history over the next 300 years, a new study published Thursday estimates, but the risk to marine life will plummet if greenhouse gas emissions are controlled.
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Climate anxiety: 75% of young people worldwide find the future 'scary'
A global study conducted in ten countries around the world reveals that 45% of young people suffer from eco-anxiety.
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Sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in New Zealand
Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in some parts of Aotearoa, massively reducing the amount of time authorities have to respond.
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