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“Extinction rebellion” protests against climate change
Around the world, over 1000 people were arrested. Washington Post story.
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A moving depiction of the consequences of glacial melting on the natural world
NYT interactive story.
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Kids’ lawsuit alleges government has known of climate change risk for 50 years
The TV show Sixty Minutes ran a segment this weekend on a lawsuit making its way through the courts in the Pacific Northwest. Titled "Juliana vs. United States," the suit seeks to have the government stop supporting fossil fuel use. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 by Oregon lawyer Julia Olson on behalf of 21…
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Interactive map shows what your city will feel like in 60 years
Mostly, it will feel a lot warmer. Here's the map, courtesy of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
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Oceans are heating 40% faster than scientists estimated just five years ago
From a new report in Science magazine, via The New York Times.
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Impact of climate change: more extreme weather events
NY Times article summarizing just-published research study.
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Climate experts concluding that carbon capture and storage will be a necessity
As experts gather at the U.N. climate talks in Poland, they are considering measures that had been previously dismissed. Carbon capture and storage is one of them. Story in the Washington Post.
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NOAA issues dismal 2018 Arctic Report Card
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency, just issued its 2018 Arctic Report Card, showing persistent warming in the region.
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Past global warming led to mass extinction
NYT article about how global warming caused the wipeout of most life on Earth, 252 million years ago
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World carbon emissions rising again, with China main culprit
From the Washington Post. And the New York Times.
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Global climate talks begin in Poland
Scientists from around the world are meeting to try to work out details for the fossil fuel emissions goals agreed to in 2015 Paris climate agreement. New York Times story.
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Changes in Yellowstone will be seen within (some of) our lifetimes
The New York Times has an interactive video story about climate change's palpable effects on Yellowstone National Park.
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The big meltdown: How climate change is unraveling the Antarctic ecosystem
A sobering National Geographic story about the effects of climate change in Antarctica. The warming is yanking apart the gears of a complex ecological machine, changing what animals eat, where they rest, how they raise their young, even how they interact. At the same time, the shrimplike krill upon which almost all animals here depend…
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Climate change causing huge loss in tropical insect invertebrate population
The Washington Post reports on a "hyperalarming" study showing dramatic loss of insects in pristine American tropical forest. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Post story notes that 35% of the world's plant crops require pollination by bees, wasps and other animals, so that if pollinators go…
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Sobering U.N. Report on Climate Change
A couple of days ago, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, representing 91 top climate change researchers from 40 countries, released their long-awaited report on global climate change and the possibilities for topping rising temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. This was a report that some vulnerable nations had requested after a…
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