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More than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy
This Yale Climate Connections audio discusses how more than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy. People across the country – from coast to coast, and from small towns to big cities – are urging their communities to switch to one hundred percent renewable energy.
Kassie Rohrbach: […]
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Rising global temperatures are creating bubbling, methane lakes you can light on fire
This article and video discusses just how bad climate change is affecting permafrost.
Thousands of flammable lakes are popping up all over Alaska and Siberia.
Rising global temperatures are thawing and melting permafrost in the Arctic, which creates these thermokarst lakes that bubble with methane.
The methane is flammable, but also getting into the […]
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Video: The Role of Shale Gas Development in the Methane Cycle
This Youtube video by Dr. Robert Howath should be seen by all. In a talk titled, “The Role of Shale Gas Development in the Methane Cycle: New Insights from 13C and 14C Data,” Robert Howarth, PhD, concludes that the global increase in methane over the last 10 years is largely […]
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16-year-old Greta Thunberg makes compelling plea for climate action
This article discusses the efforts of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg to plea for climate action. It contains a video of her speech.
This is one of those climate videos you’re likely to remember, have a hard time putting out of your thoughts.
That applies in particular to 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, who virtually […]
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Gone in a Generation – Across America, climate change is already disrupting lives
This article/video discusses how climate change is disrupting lives across America.
The continental United States is 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago. Seas at the coasts are nine inches higher. The damage is mounting from these fundamental changes, and Americans are living it. These are their […]
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Connecting Latino communities to climate change action: One woman’s story
This article/video discusses connecting Latino communities to climate change action: One woman’s story. Linda Escalante is linking lawmakers to people on the front lines of environmental problems.
As a child, Linda Escalante moved from Bogota, Colombia to Burbank, California. There, she and her mom lived in a neighborhood stuck between a […]
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New Research: Accurate Arctic Ice Loss Measurement
This video discusses new research measuring Arctic ice loss.
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Video: Pumped storage could help put more wind and solar on the grid
This article discusses how pumped storage could help put more wind and solar on the grid. The sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow. These energy-storage technologies could help get around those limitations.
Managing climate change in part involves rapidly scaling-up wind and solar energy.
But as independent videographer […]
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A conversation with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, environmental policy expert Adil Najam, and social and political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary
This video, called Hothouse Earth, is a conversation with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, environmental policy expert Adil Najam, and social and political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary.
We’re closer than we knew to falling off the cliff into climate hell – not just in the Florida Panhandle and our Deep South this week. The UN […]
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Sea Level Rise – It could be 15-20 feet
This article discusses a the leading climate scientist of our time is warning of the horrifying possibility of 15-to-20 feet of sea-level rise.
Hurricane Michael, the third most intense storm on record to make landfall in the U.S., has caused widespread destruction, turning places like Mexico Beach, Florida, into […]
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