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How many trees are there in the world?
It’s a simple question: how many trees are there on Earth? The answer required 421,529 measurements from fifty countries on six continents. Now this new data has been combined to produce a stunning visualization of our planet as you’ve never seen it before.
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World's Leading Polluters Have Racked Up a $10 Trillion Carbon Debt
The countries most responsible for global warming owe the rest of the world a tremendous debt, with the author of a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change putting the figure at $10 trillion.
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The refugee crisis is a portent
The real story about national and international security is climate change. The 2006 Stern Review, which was the most comprehensive study ever undertaken to assess the economic consequences of climate change, estimated there would be some 200 million climate refugees by the middle of this century. That number now looks conservative.
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LOUISIANA: With a master plan and the money, can a state unite to restore its protective wetlands?
For the first time in history, Louisiana may have a significant pot of money for coastal restoration. The state has established a unified agency that could balance clashing priorities among environmentalists, residents, fishermen and energy companies. And with the not-so-distant memory of the deadly Hurricane Katrina and the threat of more damaging storms looming large, the promise of healthier protective wetlands could be within reach.
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Leap Manifesto calls for energy transformation with social justice
Climate action urgently needed in Canada
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Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago | InsideClimate News
At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.
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Browse our interactive table ranking corporations and influencers (trade associations etc.) on their influence on climate change policy.
Progressive organizations supporting climate policy are at the top of the table with obstructive ones at the bottom in the F band. Click and drag the columns you wish to sort on, with the first sort column on the left. Click on the organization name to see its full scoring details. Use our filters to narrow down your search. For example with the first filter you can either display a list of corporations or a list of influencers (e.g. trade associations).
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The world just keeps breaking heat records
2015 is on track to be the hottest year on record.
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Grand Canyon from the Stratosphere! A Space Balloon Story
In June 2013, a group of friends launched a weather balloon a few miles from Tuba City, Arizona. The amazing footage was found two years later by an Arizona hiker. Enjoy the video of our launch preparations, video footage, and some data analysis of the flight.
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Devastating photos of the world's deforestation
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Excellent infographic shows why we must say no to plastic
With our plastic dependency growing and rate of recycling decreasing, it's crucial to make the tough but necessary switch to reusables.
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The Arctic Mosquito Swarms Large Enough to Kill a Baby Caribou
A parable of planetary change and unintended consequences
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Exxon knew about climate change decades ago, spent $30M to discredit it
The results of an eight-month investigation by InsideClimate News, published Wednesday, show that Exxon scientist warned company executives decades ago about human-caused global warming. But despite its own 40-year-old research that showed that burning fossil fuels released carbon dioxide that was warming the planet to harmful levels, Exxon – the United States' largest oil company – has spent $30 million to discredit climate science to protect its carbon-based business.
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FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT PLEDGES SURPASS $2.6 TRILLION
Global Coalition Announces Major Commitments as World Leaders Gather at UN; Thousands of new commitments represent a 50-fold increase in one year NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2015 — The movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy and climate solutions has exploded,...
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Ignoring science isn't a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
Dan Rather: Science can't be a Republican issue. It can't be a Democratic issue. The future security of our nation -- and Earth itself -- depends on it.
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What Climate Change Looks Like From the Arctic's Edge
For decades, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre has been on the front lines of climate-related science and public education in Canada’s north.
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Bill Gates: ‘We Need an Energy Miracle’
In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide could stimulate ingenuity to combat climate change by dramatically increasing spending on research and development. “The push is the R&D,” he said, before indicating the arrow on the right.
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New insights into the dynamics of past climate change
A new study finds that changing climate in the polar regions can affect conditions in the rest of the world far quicker than previously thought. A new study of the relationship between ocean currents and climate change has found that they are tightly linked, and that changes in the polar regions can affect the ocean and climate on the opposite side of the world within one to two hundred years, far quicker than previously thought.
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More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna
In 2011, an influx of remote sensing data from satellites scanning the African savannas revealed a mystery: these rolling grasslands, with their heavy rainfalls and spells of drought, were home to significantly fewer trees than researchers had previously expected given the biome's high annual precipitation. In fact, the 2011 study found that the more instances of heavy rainfall a savanna received, the fewer trees it had.
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New crystal captures carbon from the air, even in the presence of water
A new material with micropores might be a way to fight climate change. Scientists have created crystals that capture carbon dioxide much more efficiently than previously known materials, even in the presence of water.
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