Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:59:22 +0000
The nation’s worst fire season since 2015 spurred one Twitter user to say, “This is Earth, not the planet Mars.”
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Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:18:51 +0000
A new study links an asteroid collision to a cooling period and a burst of biodiversity 466 million years ago, and suggests that asteroid dust could help the climate crisis today.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:39:36 +0000
Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
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Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:04:30 +0000
Cycads used to grow in the UK during the age of the dinosaurs. Warming temperatures are helping them return.
Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 02:45:42 +0000
REYKJAVIC, Iceland — Iceland on Sunday honors the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warn that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. A bronze plaque will be unveiled in a ceremony starting around 1400 GMT to mark Okjokull — which translates to “Ok glacier” — in […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:40:53 +0000
PARIS—Climate deniers have garnered far more media attention than prominent climate scientists over the years, fueling public confusion and slowing the response to global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. From 2000 through 2016, hundreds of academics, business people and politicians who doubted global warming or attributed rising temperatures to “natural” causes got 50 percent more […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 22:43:49 +0000
ISSAQUAH, Wash. – Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:35:15 +0000
Nuclear power advocates suggest there are many benefits associated with nuclear energy. They point to high-paying jobs; billions of dollars in economic activity for plant-hosting communities; and secure, reliable, baseload electricity. But the most-important benefit of nuclear power may be that it emits no greenhouse gases, and therefore, does not contribute to climate change. According […]
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Credit to Author: Shayla Love| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:29:07 +0000
Rising sea levels could be an opportunity for social change—or a dystopian hellscape.
Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:47:10 +0000
According to the Energy Impact Center, a Washington, D.C.-based research institute focused on deep decarbonization, CO2 emissions “must go net-negative by 2040, globally across all energy sectors” to begin countering climate change. The only way it sees to accomplish this is to “produce energy inexpensive enough to make carbon negative fuels that compete with fossil […]
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