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Climate psychologist says neither gloom-and-doom nor extreme solution-obsessed optimism is the best way to discuss climate change productively
Renée Lertzman, climate psychologist Communicating about climate change effectively is critical to get people to engage with it productively, according…
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Climate crisis: Tube could become ‘unbearably hot’ and stations left flooded
L ondon Mayor Sadiq Khan is warning that time is running out to act on the climate emergency, which will…
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Environmental Law Is Getting in the Way of Climate Action
The decades-long failure to act shows that many existing environmental laws “are made for very old problems,” Wood says. In…
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Turkey’s Erdogan: Refugee crisis from climate change coming
NEW YORK (AP) — Presaging “hundreds of millions” of climate change refugees, Turkey’s president said Tuesday at the U.N. General…
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Southern European banks set for climate hit, ECB study shows
FILE PHOTO: Firefighters and volunteers try to extinguish a wildfire burning in the village of Galatsona, on the island of…
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It’s Climate Week Again, but the Calendar Is Running Out
It’s Climate Week in New York City, an event that, as it has every autumn since 2009, features a series…
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What climate neutrality will cost Germany | DW | 21.09.2021
Record temperatures and forest fires in North America, Southern Europe and Siberia. Typhoons in Southeast Asia. Floods in Germany and…
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UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution
Opening pocketbooks wider to fight climate change? That’s looking slightly more doable. Closing more smokestacks for the same goal? Not…
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Floods Have Swamped the US. The Next Health Problem: Mold
There’s a long history of natural disasters making people sick. Reports range from cases of Valley fever after the Northridge…
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Bill Gates secures hundreds of millions from U.S. firms for climate fight
Bill Gates at Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2017 in Munich, Germany. Michael Gottschalk | Getty Bill Gates has…
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Climate strike: In the words of a hunger striker | DW | 17.09.2021
Jacob Heinze, 27, is risking it all to take a stand. He is one of seven young people who began…
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In areas hit hard by climate change, only the rich can afford to stay
The rain fell steadily at Curt Dyer’s Miami Beach, Florida, home on a mid-July day this summer. He opened the door…
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UN chief urges ‘rapid’ emission cuts to curb climate change
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the United Nations called Thursday for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas…
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Climate change, logging collide — and a forest shrinks
CUSTER CITY, S.D. (AP) — Looking down a hillside dotted with large stumps and nearly devoid of trees, a pair…
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Report: Most nations fall far short in plans to curb warming
Nearly every nation is coming up short — most of them far short — in their efforts to fight climate…
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Could feeding cows seaweed make climate-friendly steaks? | DW | 14.09.2021
Cattle for milk and meat production are responsible for about 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Methane — a gas…
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Methane: What’s the big deal? | DW | 14.09.2021
There’s a reason why carbon dioxide has become the bogeyman of the climate crisis, considering just how much of it…
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Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next…
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Out West, Biden points to wildfires to push for big rebuild
MATHER, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday used his first Western swing in office to hold out the…
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Oil-rich Norway goes to polls with climate on the agenda
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — North Sea oil and gas has helped make Norway one of the wealthiest countries in the…
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Climate Change Is Worsening Ozone Problems On The Front Range. Hispanic Communities Feel It The Most
“It’s relatively modest now, but it’s certainly expected to grow in the future as the climate continues to warm,” Crooks…
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As New York And Louisiana Recover From Ida, Here’s How You Can Help
NEW YORK CITY – SEPTEMBER 02: Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx … [+]…
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Madagascar: How Climate Change Contributed to Madagascar’s Food Crisis
The UN has announced that Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first “climate change famine”. Tens of…
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Report: Solar could power 40% of US electricity by 2035
WASHINGTON (AP) — Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation’s electricity within 15 years…
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Climate change pushes New Zealand to warmest recorded winter
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and…
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UN climate chief: No country is safe from global warming
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N.’s top climate official urged governments Monday to stop their “deferral and delay” tactics and…
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Greece creates climate crisis ministry after huge wildfires
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government has created a new ministry to address the impact of climate change and…
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Industry group backs global carbon price for large ships
BERLIN (AP) — A major maritime industry association on Monday backed plans for a global surcharge on carbon emissions from…
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COVID-19 and the Fight Against Climate Change: What Have We Learned?
As the world continues to battle the COVID crisis, we must not lose sight of the greatest long-term threat faced…
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Hurricane Ida Proves That We Need to Step Up the Political Fight on Climate Change
In October, 1999, Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published a paper in…
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Can This Sun-Reflecting Fabric Help Fight Climate Change?
The mechanisms underlying metafabric have been used in other applications such as reflective paints for buildings and space shuttles, but…
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German floods: Climate change made heavy rains in Europe more likely | DW | 23.08.2021
Scientists have shown that the deadly floods that devastated northern Europe in July would have been less likely in a…
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Nevada groups focus on climate impact on diverse communities
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Several organizations in Nevada led by women of color have banded together to shed light on…
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Grief and anxiety over climate change drove this 30-year-old to write a letter to his future child
Daniel Sherrell, photo by Giovana Schluter Nunes Credit Giovana Schluter Nunes. Last year, the American Psychiatric Association reported that about…
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Fires harming California’s efforts to curb climate change
POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (AP) — Record-setting blazes raging across Northern California are wiping out forests central to plans to reduce…
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Climate change will disrupt supply chains much more than Covid — here’s how businesses can prepare
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic caused unprecedented, worldwide supply-chain disruptions, but experts say that’s a drop in the bucket…
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Inside the race to scale up CO2 capture technology and hit net zero
“Negative emissions” technologies involve sucking CO₂ out of the atmosphere. They are essential to net-zero climate plans – but does…
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Texas regulators want to prepare the state’s electricity grid for extreme weather. But that’s a moving target in a warming world.
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EXPLAINER: Western states face first federal water cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials on Monday declared the first-ever water shortage from a river that serves 40 million people…
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Montana town looks at clean energy as climate changes
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — In an Aug. 9 report that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity,” the…
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The new IPCC report is dire. Does anyone care?
The 2021 report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) went well beyond the relatively sedate tones of…
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First water cuts in US West supply to hammer Arizona farmers
By FELICIA FONSECA August 12, 2021 GMT https://apnews.com/article/business-science-environment-and-nature-arizona-climate-change-7cf4c472fa64fe57be4b8823c5423fc0 CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) — A harvester rumbles through the fields in…
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Is carbon capture and utilization a lifeline for oil and gas? | DW | 12.08.2021
As the world gets serious about the 2050 climate neutrality target, technology deployment is speeding up. Amongst the emissions-reducing measures…
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Sicily hits 48.8°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe
By Michael Le Page A firefighter battles the flames after a wildfire broke out in Petralia Soprana, Italy, on 10…
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How the Japanese get through scorching summers | DW | 05.08.2021
Soaring temperatures and uncomfortably high humidity levels have been among the biggest complaints from athletes taking part in the Tokyo…
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US automakers pledge huge increase in electric vehicles
WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the U.S. must “move fast” to win the world’s carmaking future, President Joe Biden on Thursday…
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Plug Power Shows One Way to Survive Cleantech’s Booms and Busts
(Bloomberg Markets) — The momentum behind cleantech stocks may be fading—again. For about a year, companies pushing to decarbonize and…
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The Dirty Secret of Carbon Accounting That Underpins Climate Goals
There’s a dirty secret of carbon accounting, and it could soon be exposed. That’s because the assumptions most companies base…
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Why it’s so hard and expensive to plug an abandoned well
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ July 29, 2021 GMT https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-climate-change-7392636504b2763de07ff4b3fe78710e An estimated 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across the country,…
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The Weird, Sustainable Booze of the Future Tastes … Good?
When Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen founded the Denmark-based microdistillery Empirical Spirits four years ago, they weren’t actually sure…
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