Climate Impacts & Adaptation
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CanadaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
Study Projects Warming Trends, Rain and Drought for 540 North American Cities in 2080
Average winters in 2080 will be 9.5°C warmer in Montreal, 7.3°C warmer in Quebec City, 6.1°C warmer in Ottawa, and 5.6°C warmer in St. ... -
Climate Change Imperils Centuries-Old Speed Skating Race in Netherlands
When a thousand Dutch speed skaters gathered in January’s pre-dawn darkness to race on an enormous ice-bound lake in a small town in Austria, ... -
Tropical Staple Trees Would Save 20.19 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Tropical staple trees rank #14 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. This option could eliminate 20.19 gigatons of atmospheric carbon dioxide at a cost ... -
Batteries/StorageCitiesCoalDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationOceansOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSolarUnited States
Los Angeles Shifts Billions of Dollars from Gas Plants to Storage, Efficiency, and Solar
Los Angeles is walking away from a plan to spend billions of dollars rebuilding three natural gas power plants along the coast, in what ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityInternational Agencies & Studies
Insect Collapse Over Next Century Could Trigger ‘Catastrophic Ecosystem Collapse’
The world’s insect populations could disappear in the next century, triggering a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to a first-ever global scientific review ... -
CanadaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetySub-National Governments
Health Professionals Point to Cumulative Impacts of Wildfire Smoke
Experts who attended a wildfire workshop hosted by the British Columbia Lung Association last week in Vancouver are sounding the alarm about the health ... -
Green New Deal Comes to Life in Portland Affordable Housing Project
Affordable, green, and employing immigrant Americans, a new housing project in a low-income neighborhood in Portland, Oregon is being cast as an early glimpse ... -
Russian Town Overrun by Polar Bears as Sea Ice Declines
Starving polar bears have overrun a small town in Russia’s eastern Arctic, and while the immediate problem traces back to the delectable snacks someone ...
