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“Alarm bells ringing” as report finds greenhouse gas emissions growing faster than ever

Oct 31, 2024 |

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin earlier this week, reporting that humans are emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a faster rate than ever before, contributing significantly to climate change. By burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas for transportation, agriculture, manufacturing and other commercial activities, humans add a molecule to the atmosphere that traps heat and unnaturally warms the planet....

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The world is “miles short” of its target to limit climate change, UN reports

Oct 30, 2024 |

For the world to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the 200 countries who signed the Paris climate agreement must hit a target of 43% reduction by 2030. Yet according to a recent report by the United Nations agency tasked with tackling global warming, the planet is currently on track to just hit a measly 2.6% reduction in carbon emissions....

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Volcanoes don’t cause climate change — but it could be the other way around

Oct 28, 2024 |

A recent report from the Icelandic Meteorological Office suggests that magma is building up underground near a volcano known as Askja, a mountain about the size of Mount St. Helens in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands. Although volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict accurately, this indicates a high likelihood that Askja may erupt in the near future

Such events are nothing new in Iceland, an island nation of just 400,000 people that has numerous active volcanoes....

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Why climate experts say this election could be our last chance for meaningful action

Oct 28, 2024 |

Climate change isn’t the number one issue on most people’s minds as they head to the polls for the 2024 election on Nov. 5. Instead, abortion, immigration and the economy are generally the major issues people put first for why they’re choosing a particular candidate, whether it’s former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris or a third-party runner....

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Russia helped spread right wing misinformation during recent US hurricanes

Oct 25, 2024 |

Russia has helped spread false and misleading information on the internet about Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, two climate change-fueled natural disasters that recently struck the American southeast.

According to the recent report, which was published by the London-based think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), social media accounts linked to Russian state-affiliated media spread content focusing on right -wing themes....

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82 Nobel Prize winners “strongly” endorse Harris

Oct 24, 2024 |

More than eighty Nobel Prize laureates published an open letter on Thursday declaring that the scientific policies of Vice President Kamala Harris are “vastly superior” to the ones proposed by her opponent, former President Donald Trump.

Representing scientists from fields including chemistry, economics, medicine and physics, the 82 scholars said Trump’s opposition to federal funding for the sciences, independent universities, immigration rights and international collaboration “would undermine future U.S....

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“Universal suicide”: An imprisoned climate activist on why the fight for the planet still matters

Oct 24, 2024 |

Many people don’t need something as dramatic as Hurricane Milton to tell them our climate is spiraling out of control. It’s evident everywhere, from the U.K. recently reporting its second worst harvest on record to Antarctica turning green to the U.S. spending $150 billion a year on climate change-related extreme weather events....

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Climate change despair has never been higher — but experts say hope is still possible

Oct 22, 2024 |

Julie France is a 34-year-old Millennial in Denver, a high-altitude Colorado city theoretically safer than other places from one of the most conspicuous ravages of climate change: hurricanes, such as Helene and Milton, the pair of hurricanes responsible for recently battering the Southeastern United States. Aware of climate change from a very young age, France has spent her life making choices about driving, meat consumption, buying locally and other carbon-sensitive issues with the global crisis in mind....

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Frog habitats are drying up due to climate change, study finds

Oct 22, 2024 |

A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across the globe. In fact, unless humans significantly reduce burning fossil fuels, the international team of scientists found that by 2080 to 2100, anywhere from 7 percent to more than one-third of frog habitats will become too arid for survival....

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