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Hospitals Take Aim At ‘The Greatest Health Threat Of The 21st Century’ – GHGs
This article discusses how health systems, comprising more than 17,000 facilities worldwide, are pledging to slash their carbon emissions.
One of the larger themes at this week’s massive Global Climate Action Summit taking place in San Francisco is the relationship between climate change and human health.
“Health is the best way […]
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Potential Insurance Bill From Hurricane Florence Could Take Toll on Wallets Far From North Carolina’s Coast
This article discusses the financial impact from hurricane Florence. Insurance companies retreated from some communities amid stronger storms, leaving a “last-resort” plan to fill the growing gap.
For years, North Carolina has bet against a storm like Hurricane Florence.
Even as nationally known insurance companies pulled out of the state’s coastal communities, […]
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Study: Paris global warming targets could be exceeded sooner than expected because of melting permafrost
This article discusses study findings that the Paris global warming targets could be exceeded sooner than expected because of melting permafrost. The planet is on brink of ‘tipping point’ as thawing soil and sediment releases large volumes of carbon dioxide and methane into atmosphere.
The world is on course to […]
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Climate change is making storms like Hurricane Florence worse
This article discusses how climate change is making storms like Hurricane Florence worse.
Extreme weather events are often pointed to as harbingers of what is to come, thanks to manmade climate change. Unfortunately, Hurricane Florence, like Hurricane Harvey last year, is an example of what climate change is […]
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What Is Coal Ash and Why Is It Dangerous? And a Dam break in NC
The first article discusses what coal ash is and why it is so dangerous. The phrase “coal ash” made headlines this week after a dam on a lake at the site of a power plant in Wilmington, N.C., was breached, allowing the hazardous ash into a river that […]
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100% Renewable Energy: Cleveland Sets a Big Goal as It Sheds Its Fossil Fuel Past
This article discusses how Cleveland is attempting to move away from fossil fuels to 100% Renewable Energy. Cleveland Sets a Big Goal as It Sheds Its Fossil Fuel Past, joining more than 80 U.S. cities that have committed to get all their electricity from renewable sources. But in […]
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Study: New study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen
This article discusses a new study reconciles a dispute about how fast global warming will happen. Unfortunately, mainstream climate scientists are still right, and we’re running out of time to avoid dangerous global warming.
We’re currently on pace to double the carbon dioxide-equivalent (including other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere […]
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Study: National parks are getting hotter and drier. What’s the outlook for 2100?
This article discusses how US National Parks are in danger.
America’s national parks are warming up and drying out faster than other U.S. landscapes, threatening iconic ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Joshua Tree in California to Denali in Alaska.
That’s the conclusion of a new climate change […]
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Antarctica’s Rapidly Changing Plants Reveal New Frontier of Climate Change
Despite what we think we know about Antarctica, it’s not all snow and ice. The largely frozen continent has a very short summer, which brings ice melts that […]
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Study: Researchers mapping climate change through tree rings
This article discusses how researchers are mapping climate change through tree rings.
Scientists are studying tree rings to learn about changes in climate over hundreds of years. Researchers showed BBC News how the width of the rings can give clues to rainfall, temperature fluctuations and even tsunamis and earthquakes.
In […]
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