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Report: Carbon dioxide in atmosphere has spiked to record-setting new level
The Hill: Carbon dioxide in atmosphere has spiked to record-setting new level. Observatory data confirms a returned trend of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
As travel returns worldwide, carbon dioxide levels are increasing.
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are key contributors to climate change.One of the U.S.’s premier observatories for measuring […]
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Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
Rolling Stone: Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis. With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error.
The Earth’s climate has always been a work […]
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Carbon Emissions Could Plummet. The Atmosphere Will Lag Behind
NPR: Carbon Emissions Could Plummet. The Atmosphere Will Lag Behind.
In the next several days, the Biden administration is expected to announce plans across the economy to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by 2030.
The Biden administration’s goal is to speed the process to avoid a climate tipping point that scientists […]
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Ecological impacts of solar geoengineering are highly uncertain
Ars Technica: Ecological impacts of solar geoengineering are highly uncertain. New research describes the unknowns in our knowledge of solar geoengineering.
Without condoning or condemning the poorly understood tactic, recent reports suggest we should try to understand one proposed strategy to cool the planet: altering the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. Called solar […]
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Report: Greenhouse gas levels surged in 2020, NOAA says – 2 articles
CBS News (Video): Greenhouse gas levels surged in 2020, NOAA says. A new report from the NOAA finds that despite global shutdowns, greenhouse gas levels in 2020 surged. In fact, levels of carbon dioxide are at the highest they’ve been in 3.6 million years. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff […]
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Study: Scientists warn sea grasses store twice as much carbon dioxide as forests, but we are destroying them quickly
The Hill: Scientists warn sea grasses store twice as much carbon dioxide as forests, but we are destroying them quickly. New research promotes seagrass as a natural way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Researchers sampled seawater factors from the U.S. West Coast to study ocean acidification levels.
They found […]
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Study: Earth’s most beloved creatures headed toward extinction under current emissions
CBS News: Earth’s most beloved creatures headed toward extinction under current emissions, study shows.
Snow leopards in the Himalayas, lemurs in Madagascar and elephants in central Africa: Some of Earth’s most beloved creatures are on a path to extinction, a new study shows, thanks to current
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Reforestation Is Great! But We’re Running Out of Seeds
Wired: Reforestation Is Great! But We’re Running Out of Seeds. Planting trees is a popular solution to carbon emissions. But where will all those seedlings come from?
DEAN SWIFT HAS gotten really good at spotting where squirrels hide their seeds. In the forests of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota, […]
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The Daily Climate, April 1,2021
Articles include: Climate change and financial markets; Report: O&G warning – diversify; Tackling climate change will create jobs; Biden and electric vehicles; Rainforests will become savannas – study and study. EU climate plan and Asia; greening the […]
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The Daily Climate, March 30,2021
Articles include: Eastern Kentucky and flooding; Biden offshore wind farms; Massachusetts law and gas ban; Japan’s cherry blossoms peak; Electric vehicles; investigating trump attacks on science; Russian oil leaks; DOE & carbon capture; Study: China and coal-based electricity (published by Ember, the London-based energy and climate research group – […]
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