Climate Impacts & Adaptation
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Canada’s Fatal Fission Attraction
Seventy-five years ago, Canadian scientists began a reckless romance with nuclear fission. Lessons from a tragic death, and a meltdown that destroyed a reactor, ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationHealth & SafetyJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
‘We’re All Scared’, Worker Says, as Tar Sands/Oil Sands Mine Becomes Alberta’s Biggest COVID Outbreak
Tar sands/oil sands workers in the midst of Alberta’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s Horizon bitumen mine say their living and ... -
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Colonial Pipeline Pays Ransomware Demand as Panic Buying Grips Eastern U.S. Gasoline Users
Drivers across the southeastern United States have been getting a new sense of the vulnerability of their fuel supplies over the last week, and ... -
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Coronavirus Creates Opportunity for Zero-Carbon Transportation
When discussing low-carbon transportation and the question of why cars play such a dominant role in our society, it is often tempting to fall ... -
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U.S. Tribes Work to Advance Water Equity as Colorado Basin Drought Worsens
As a megadrought deepens across the Colorado River Basin, the Indigenous nations of the region are seeing hope for real change after decades of ... -
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Biden Administration Mulls Controversial Climate Deal with Bolsonaro
Defenders of the rainforest are watching with trepidation—and, for some, horror—as the Biden administration contemplates a climate deal with Brazilian president and “climate-scoffing populist” ... -
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Campaigners Plan ‘Eviction’ Events, Ottawa Backs Enbridge as Line 5 Closure Deadline Arrives
Campaigners in Michigan planned two days of “eviction” events today and tomorrow, Governor Gretchen Whitmer threatened to seize Enbridge Inc.’s profits if the Calgary-based ... -
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COVID Cases Sweep Tar Sands/Oil Sands as Thousands Arrive for Spring Maintenance Work
Tar sands/oil sands companies are stepping up protective measures as a spate of COVID-19 cases sweeps through the region at the same time that ... -
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More Than One Billion Lack Access to Cooling, Risk Illness and Heat Stress
As the pandemic drives up poverty rates, a lack of access to cooling technology has now put more than a billion people at increased ... -
Climate Crisis Produces Widespread Mental Health Risks, UK Survey Finds
Some 84% of UK citizens believe that the effects of the climate crisis will be as damaging to mental health by 2030 as unemployment ... -
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Arizona Politics Flips from Climate Denial to Ecofascism
From lawsuits in Arizona to promises by French politician Marine Le Pen to make her country “the world’s first ecological civilization,” the far right ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsSoil & Natural SequestrationUnited States
Deciduous Trees May Act as ‘Brakes’ on Boreal Fire Feedback Loops
The deciduous trees that are replacing conifers in the northern boreal forest may help slow the dangerous feedback loop that is now fuelling intense ... -
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UK Grocery Chains Prepare Brazil Boycott as Amazon Becomes Net Carbon Emitter
The Jair Bolsonaro government in Brazil is once again risking international boycotts in response to a rainforest-imperilling law, as a new study confirms that ... -
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Michigan Calls Line 5 a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ with Closure Deadline Two Days Away
With Michigan’s deadline to shut down the Line 5 pipeline just two days away, the state and Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. are telling different stories ... -
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UN Urges 45% Methane Cut This Decade to Reduce Warming, Protect Health
Countries can and must reduce methane emissions 45% this decade to avoid nearly 0.3°C of additional global warming by 2045, keep a relatively climate-safe ...
