Irma and Harvey lay the costs of climate change denial at Trump’s door Climate change cannot be blamed for the hurricane count in any single season, nor for the occurrence of any single storm, but there are three ways in which it is making the consequences worse. First, although the…
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Canada wildfire could double in size as mass evacuations continue “Unseasonably hot temperatures, extremely dry conditions and winds of up to 70km/h (44 mph) helped fuel the fire’s spectacular growth to 101,000 hectares – an area more than 10 times the size of Manhattan, and up from just 10,000…
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The Danger of a Runaway Antarctica “Now comes another scary prediction: If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels continue unabated, the vast West Antarctic ice sheet could begin to disintegrate, causing the sea to rise by five to six feet by the end of the century, destroying coastal cities and…
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Committee on Climate Change questions ministers’ claims of increased investment and urges more spending on defences “Having accepted that climate change is happening, there’s a curious unwillingness to recognise that this is not something about our children’s future, it is something about our present. “We’re going to have more frequent…
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Polar bears eat dolphins as Arctic warms A polar bear eats a white-beaked dolphin in the Raudfjorden fjord, on the northwestern coast of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, on July 2, 2014. Dolphins had become trapped too far north possibly due to the almost absence of ice in the…
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California’s Water Disaster Is Confusing, So We Drew Pictures About 80 percent of California’s water goes to agriculture. 50 percent of the average Californian’s water footprint comes from meat and dairy consumption alone. You need 7.7 cubic meters of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That’s like 77 baths.…
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Are walrus at risk from climate change? A mass haul out of 35,000 animals on an Alaska beach doesn’t bode well for the future of wildlife dependent on the Arctic ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap6kSV_U45o (13)
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Large crater appears at the ‘end of the world’, Siberian Times “The striking puncture in the earth is believed to be up to 80 metres wide but its depth is not estimated yet. A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the…
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