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Study: How Melting Arctic Ice Could Cook the Tropics
This article discusses how the loss of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean will alter wind patterns and ocean currents, causing changes across the planet.
Every good horror movie needs a sequel, and the follow-up to the real-life 2015 disaster the Blob is coming soon. But this time, the deadly warming in […]
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Unusually Hot Spring Threw Plants, Pollinators Out of Sync in Europe
This article discusses how flowers and pollinators are increasingly getting out of sync because of climate change. Butterflies hatched early with the heat, but their flowers hadn’t opened yet. Bees are under pressure, too. ‘You can see the climate change.’
In a patch of scruffy prairie near Vienna, marbled […]
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How climate change is hurting monarch butterflies
This article discusses the plight of monarch butterflies. Saving them will require a massive effort on two fronts.
Most monarch butterflies spend the winter in Mexico. But the rest of the year they can be found throughout much of the continental U.S. – as long as there’s milkweed. This tall plant […]
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Study: Coral decline in Great Barrier Reef ‘unprecedented’
This article discusses the damage being done to Australia’s Great Barrie Reef. Reef monitoring program shows northern section has lost half of its coral cover.
A steep decline in coral cover right across the Great Barrier Reef is a phenomenon that “has not been observed in the historical […]
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Nearly all of Florida’s loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings are now female
This article discusses how Florida’s loggerhead turtles are female, caused by rising temperatures. This will impact the turtle’s ability to survive.
Every year in Florida, millions of baby sea turtles scramble across the sand from their nests to the ocean. Recently, almost all of these baby turtles have been […]
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Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023
This article discusses the imact on humanity if we don’t do something about climate change. It is not good.
A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
In a recent speech at the […]
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Honeybees May Be Dying in Larger Numbers Due to Climate Change
This article describes the problems facing honeybees because of climate change.
Beekeepers in the U.S. reported an increase in honeybee deaths over the last year, possibly the result of erratic weather patterns brought on by a changing climate, according to the scientist leading an annual survey on the insects.
U.S. beekeepers […]
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Sea-level rise is threatening Everglades restoration
This article discusses the impact sea level rise is having on Florida’s Everglades – it is not good. A scientist warns that salt water is impairing the ecosystem more than originally thought.
The Florida Everglades are not just home to gators, snowy egrets, and panthers. The Everglades provide South Florida with […]
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Study: Urgent Climate Action Required to Protect Tens of Thousands of Species Worldwide
This article discusses how limiting global warming to 2 degrees and not the more ambitious 1.5 degrees would put far more species at risk of extinction. Insects are especially vulnerable.
Humanity can powerfully improve the survival odds of tens of thousands of species, but only if nations dramatically […]
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Study: Climate change on track to cause major insect wipeout, scientists warn
This article discusses how climate change will impact insect life. Insects are vital to ecosystems but will lose almost half their habitat under current climate projections. Take bees, for example, along with mosquitoes and ticks.
Global warming is on track to cause a major wipeout of insects, compounding already severe […]
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