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Multiple articles from Yale Climate Connection
These Yale Climate Connection articles discuss:
Why it’s not good to ignore people’s emotions about climate change. Many people feel helplessness, hopelessness, anger, and fear when they hear about the topic.
How to talk about climate change at social gatherings. A guide to bringing up the topic without turning into Debbie Downer.
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Solar-powered pollinators for less than a penny a watt
This article discusses a company that help solar farms become environmentally better. Solar-powered pollinators for less than a penny a watt. Ernst Pollinator and Prairie Restorations offer the services, as required by various state scorecards for solar siting, to bring your solar site up to the “pollinator standard”, while also […]
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Study: Where Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes Will Go In The Future
This NPR article discusses just how far north mosquitoes could migrate because of climate change.
Based on estimates of future temperatures across the world, the authors of a study published this week in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases mapped where the mosquitoes that transmit diseases like dengue and Zika might travel if […]
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Study: Climate change threatens Great Basin waterbirds, a ‘canary in the mine’ for healthy lakes, wetlands
This article discusses how climate change is threatening Great Basin waterbirds, a ‘canary in the mine’ for healthy lakes, wetlands.
Since the early 1900s, diversions for cities, farms and ranches have changed the amount of water that makes it into these lakes, which form part of the Pacific Flyway, a […]
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Clean energy facts belie misconceptions and offer optimism
This Yale Climate Connections article discusses how clean energy facts can overcome misconceptions and offer optimism. With rise of clean energy success stories comes surge of myths, misconceptions. Here’s how to counter them.
The article addresses whether clean energy is price competitive without subsidies (yes); whether clean energy is “dirty energy” […]
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Study: Spinach, strawberries and kale – the most pesticide-tainted produce
This Environmental Health News article discusses the need to eliminate pesticides. Spinach, strawberries and kale top annual report on the most pesticide-tainted produce. Annual analysis finds almost 70 percent of U.S. fruits and vegetables have pesticide residues. If you’re going to buy organic, strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines and apples might be […]
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Pesticides: Roundup and Monsanto and the links to cancer
These articles discuss the link between roundup (glyphosphate) and cancer:
Scientists Found Worrisome New Evidence About Roundup and Cancer. Major regulatory agencies in the United States and Canada have concluded that glyphosate is not carcinogenic. But the chemical remains under scrutiny. Just weeks before the start of the Hardeman trial, several […]
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Study: climate change impacts wind energy industry
This article discusses a study that shows climate change impacts the wind energy industry. Published in the journal, Science Advances, in December last year, the study calculates the wind power potential in India over the past four decades and finds that trends in wind power are tied to the strength of […]
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Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking Phase
This article discusses ticks and how they kill wildlife. As winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move. A scientist, wielding his ruler, called out square-centimeter tick counts: nine ticks in the first square centimeter, seven engorged; eight in the second, none engorged; 28, four engorged; […]
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Studies: Migratory birds face multiple threats from climate change
This article discusses some new studies that show that migratory birds face multiple threats from climate change. Some two billion birds migrate over the Gulf Coast each spring. The highest traffic occurs in Texas, with as many as 26,000 birds per kilometer of airspace each night, 5.4 times the number […]
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