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 ...
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Sep 5, 2022
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Much of the world's efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change hinge on the success of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement. A new Nature Climate Change study is the first to provide scientific evidence assessing how ...
Environment
Sep 1, 2022
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Tens of millions of migratory insects cross at least 100 km of open sea to reach Cyprus on the way to mainland Europe, new research shows.
Ecology
Aug 19, 2022
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South Africa is a dominantly urban country, with almost 70% of the population living in cities and towns. But urban services and infrastructures are coming under increasing strain from the collapse of infrastructure in many ...
Economics & Business
Aug 15, 2022
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of "Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security" and specializes in international relations. ...
Political science
Aug 9, 2022
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Artificial intelligence and text mining techniques can be used to detect paranoia among social media users. Specifically, work published in the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, has examined ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2022
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Avid fishers from the shoreline at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) near Thuwal, Saudi Arabia know well the three common species of Red Sea sea bream: the goldsilk, or picnic sea bream (Acanthopagrus ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2022
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Major economies such as India, Brazil and Russia face "cascading" crises driven by climate change such as food insecurity, energy shortages and civil unrest, an industry analysis warned Thursday.
Environment
Jul 21, 2022
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For decades, environmental activists along with some government officials and scientists have argued that rich countries should pay the most to address climate change, and even pay poor countries reparations, because industrialized ...
Environment
Jul 12, 2022
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A study in the Global Business and Economics Review looks at the economic and psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nations of the GCC (the Gulf Cooperation Council).
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2022
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