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Study: climate change is deleteriously impacting marine life
This article discusses how radical Arctic change is bringing spawning cod into new northern waters. A research paper was published last summer that showed how the northern Barents Sea is about to shift from an Arctic to an Atlantic climate.
This article discusses Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. People living near […]
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Yale Climate Connections, Week of 5/18/19
This website has weekly emails that discuss multiple topics, including:
Planetary health and ’12 years’ to act
Beleaguered journalism interests seek to aid ailing planet
CJR’s covering climate change event proposes better journalism for a better climate
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Study: Sea level rise threatens bird habitats along Atlantic Coast
This article discusses a study that shows that sea level rise threatens bird habitats along Atlantic Coast.
Sea level rise is hitting coastal habitats along the south Atlantic Coast faster than scientists previously thought, threatening entire species of birds and whole ecosystems if action isn’t taken soon, according to a […]
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A New Generation of Activists Confronts the Extinction Crisis
This New Yorker article discusses how a new generation of activists is confronting the extinction crisis.
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U.N. modernizes guidance for greenhouse emission estimates
This article discusses the UN’s new guidance for greenhouse emission estimates. A United Nations climate change panel updated on Monday guidelines for governments to estimate greenhouse gas emissions so the most up-to-date scientific research is included.
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Clean Energy Generated More Than $28B Statewide Since 2007
This article discusses how clean energy has generated more than $28B since 2007 in North Carolina. A new report shows the economic impact of more than a decade of clean energy investment in the state. The study from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association finds clean energy development projects […]
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DeSmog Blog – May 16, 2019
This blog discusses multiple environmental issues, including the puzzling deaths of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico; Oregon’s refusing to allow a LNG terminal to be built over water quality concerns; carcinogens and other pollution at a Boston gas compressor station; attempts by the fossil fuel industry to eliminate the […]
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Study: Plastics – Six articles/reports on how damaging plastics are
This article discusses the impact on sea anemones from global warming and microplastics – it’s not good. Sea anemones affected by bleaching retain microplastics longer than healthy ones. Climate change and plastic pollution are major threats to all marine life, from minuscule crustaceans to gigantic whales. Although many experiments […]
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CO2 in the atmosphere – 2 articles
This National Geographic article discusses how carbon dioxide levels are at a record high. Carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas that drives global climate change, continues to rise every month. Find out the dangerous role it and other gases play.
BY TRAPPING HEAT from the sun, greenhouse gases have kept Earth’s […]
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Two different approaches to renewable energy
This article discusses how Dominion Energy did not include solar and storage in their resource plan. By excluding storage from its resource plan, the Virginia utility also excluded solar + storage, proposing up to 3.2 GW of gas-fired peaking units instead. Separately, a solar association and the utility agreed […]
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