A carbon bomb is a fossil fuel extraction project, such as a coal mine, that can cause over a metric gigaton of CO₂ emissions during its lifetime. That's a billion tons—more than twice the UK's annual emissions from a ...
Environment
Sep 5, 2022
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Elke Weber became a research psychologist with cross-training in business so that she could investigate how individuals approach financial risks. But a chance opportunity at her first faculty job, at the University of Illinois ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2022
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Brook trout are disappearing from American streams. Amphibian habitats are changing. Coral species are dying.
Ecology
Aug 31, 2022
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Carbon dioxide emissions from passenger travel to and from New Zealand rose by 60% from 2007 to 2017, a University of Otago study has revealed.
Environment
Aug 25, 2022
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Introducing the New Zealand government's first Emissions Reduction Plan in June, climate change minister James Shaw observed: "The climate crisis is no longer something happening elsewhere, to someone else, in the future—it ...
Economics & Business
Aug 23, 2022
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A 2021 study in the journal Nature found that in order to avert the worst impacts of climate change, most of the world's known fossil fuel reserves must remain untapped. According to the study, 90 percent of coal and nearly ...
Environment
Aug 20, 2022
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As the Ontario housing market enters a potentially volatile phase, new research from the University of Waterloo shows how tax policy has proven ineffective in controlling prices.
Economics & Business
Aug 18, 2022
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What does media coverage of climate change have in common with coverage of COVID-19? Each has been an example of the media practice of "bothsidesism," whereby journalists strive to present both sides of an issue, even in ...
Social Sciences
Jul 22, 2022
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Since the beginning of the summer in 2022, China has been sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades. A number of people in Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangsu, and Sichuan provinces were diagnosed with thermoplegia, the most severe ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2022
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Increasing temperatures induced by climate change will have consequences on the labor market. Especially in industries with high exposure to heat, high temperatures may result in a reduction in labor supply (due to fewer ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2022
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