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As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place
ABC.net: As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place. The Arctic is changing faster than any environment on Earth. The old order is being swept away, leaving scientists to ask: What’s coming in its place?
Where there was once ice, there is now open ocean.
Milky swirls of plankton, hundreds of […]
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Study: As the world’s deltas sink, rising seas are far from the only culprit.
Yale Environment 360: As World’s Deltas Sink, Rising Seas Are Far from Only Culprit. Although climate change is often blamed for coastal inundation in places like the Bay of Bengal, other factors such as dam building and urbanization play an important role. Scientists say that more sustainable development policies […]
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Greener air travel will depend on these emerging technologies
National Geographic: Greener air travel will depend on these emerging technologies. Electric engines, alternative fuels, and better navigation could reduce emissions—and mitigate the impacts of a global return to the skies.
Here’s a word you may have overlooked in 2020: flygskam, a Swedish term for the feeling of being ashamed to fly. In […]
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Study: Climate change worsens child malnutrition
France24: Climate change worsens child malnutrition: study. [No Study link provided.]
Climate change may contribute more to greater child malnutrition and poor diet than traditional causes such as poverty and poor sanitation, according to research published on Thursday.
Although childhood malnutrition has decreased globally over the past several decades, undernourishment has increased […]
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Study: Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
The Guardian: Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis. Weaker sharks are less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say authors of study into impacts of hotter oceans.
Baby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier […]
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How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council
Inside Climate News: How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council. Talk of global warming was out, and relations among the eight countries that make up the council, once a highly collaborative group and a steady force for climate action, became dysfunctional.
For decades, through political tumult […]
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The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations
Wired: The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations. A lot of thermal energy is trapped in the ocean. An ex-NASA researcher has figured out how it might generate unlimited clean power for aquatic robots.
EARLY LAST YEAR, just a few weeks before the pandemic brought life in […]
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Studies: Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists
The Guardian: Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists. ‘Frightening’ global decline is ‘tearing apart tapestry of life’, with climate crisis a critical concern.
The 12 new studies are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Nature is under siege [and] most biologists agree […]
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Report: The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America
Inside Climate News: The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America. The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double—and maybe even six times—the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees.
As a […]
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