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End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health
StatNews: End fracking exemptions, a threat to maternal and public health.
The adoption of safe, clean, renewable energy is an essential element for sustaining the U.S. economy and maintaining the health of its citizens. There are many paths to these goals. Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is not one […]
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Study: NASA measures direct evidence humans are causing climate change
CBS News: NASA measures direct evidence humans are causing climate change. It may come as a surprise, given the extensive body of evidence connecting humans to climate change, that directly-observed proof of the human impact on the climate had still eluded science. That is, until now.
In a […]
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Study: New way to measure Antarctic snowfall helps predict the ice sheet’s survival
National Geographic: New way to measure Antarctic snowfall helps predict the ice sheet’s survival. A new satellite finds a surprise: Atmospheric rivers of moisture can dump huge amounts of snow over Antarctica, and now we can track it incredibly closely.
A new way of studying Antarctica’s weather, not from Earth’s surface but […]
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Biden Moves to Dial Down America’s Soaring Methane Emissions
The Revelator: Biden Moves to Dial Down America’s Soaring Methane Emissions. Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.
On his first day in office, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order that stops the Keystone […]
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Studies: Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse
Washington Post: Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it’s going to get worse. Ice is melting faster worldwide, with greater sea-level rise anticipated, studies show.
Global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, and scientists […]
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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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Climate scientists on Earth’s two futures.
CBS News discusses Climate scientists on Earth’s two futures. The worst effects of climate change don’t have to happen, scientists say. But humans’ actions in the near future will determine if they do. For more than three decades, climate scientists have accurately forecast how carbon emissions would cause a global rise […]
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Study: Hurricanes near U.S. coast forecast to worsen and multiply due to global warming
The Washington Post discusses Hurricanes near U.S. coast forecast to worsen and multiply due to global warming. The 2020 hurricane season may be best remembered as the one that spawned so many storms that forecasters ran out of names and had to resort to Greek letters. But it is notable […]
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Study: Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
ProPublica discusses how Climate Change will force a new American migration. Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
August besieged California with […]
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