Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health
With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health.
With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health.
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Dec 3, 2023
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Nearly 120 nations pledged to triple the world's renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to crank up nuclear capacity and slash methane emissions.
Environment
Dec 3, 2023
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More than 20 nations including the United States called for a tripling of nuclear energy to drive down emissions on Saturday as world leaders assembled for a second day at UN climate talks in Dubai.
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Dec 2, 2023
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Climate modeling based upon Earth's current greenhouse gas emissions trajectory predicts a worst-case scenario of 4.3°C warming of the planet by 2100 if sufficient measures are not implemented. While the Paris Climate Agreement ...
The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extreme weather events fueled by human-caused climate change, according ...
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Nov 23, 2023
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Lightning is the dominant cause of wildfire ignition in boreal forests—areas of global importance for carbon storage—and will increase in frequency with climate change, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
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A new study by RMIT has found carbon emissions from Australian alpine peatlands to be much higher in areas disturbed by feral horses. The paper, "Carbon emissions from Australian Sphagnum peatlands increase with feral horse ...
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Nov 8, 2023
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A survey of more than a million social media posts suggests that people feel more positive about nature's ability to solve climate change than human technology, according to new research published in the journal Global Environmental ...
Environment
Nov 4, 2023
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According to a new paper in Oxford Open Climate Change, the strategies humanity must pursue to reduce climate change will have to include more than reducing greenhouse gases. This comes from an analysis of climate data led ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2023
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If humanity wants to have a 50/50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatons (billion metric tons) of CO2. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2023
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