Climate Impacts & Adaptation
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Nine Big Emitters Would Pay Their Share Under ‘Hypothetical Climate Liability Regime’
The world’s big oil and mining companies emit vast amounts of climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By extension, the actions of these corporate ... -
Air & MarineArctic & AntarcticaAsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSupply Chains & Consumption
LNG Tanker Completes First Winter Passage of Russia’s Melting Northern Sea Route
Since the New Year, an LNG tanker has twice navigated the Northern Sea Route—a feat that until recently would have been impossible in mid-winter. ... -
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Rising Rents, Hurricane Damage Drive Homelessness Crisis in Louisiana
Only six months after seeing their homes destroyed by back-to-back hurricanes, many renters in the industrial heartland of southwest Louisiana have found themselves literally ... -
AustraliaBiodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsOceans
Great Barrier Reef Geoengineering an Expensive Smokescreen, Scientists Say
Researchers and innovators are piling on to the effort to geoengineer a way to protect Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from a warming ocean. But ... -
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‘There’s a Lot to Rebuild’, Trudeau Tells Biden, as Canada, U.S. Map Climate Partnership
Accelerating climate ambition and building back better are two of the six components of a new U.S.-Canada partnership roadmap that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ... -
AfricaChinaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsEuropeHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
Russian Veto Blocks UN Security Council Action on Climate
The sitting president of the United Nations Security Council was left “stabbing at a broken panic button” yesterday after Russia’s veto threat prevented the ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Coastal GasLink Costs Rise as B.C. Flags Environmental Impacts Along Pipeline Route
The CEO of TC Energy Corp. is warning that the cost of its Coastal GasLink pipeline to bring natural gas from northeastern British Columbia ... -
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World Bank, IMF May Link Debt Relief for Poor Countries with Climate Investments
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are looking at how to take climate change into account as they open negotiations to ... -
AustraliaBiodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictions
Australian Megafires Could Have Lasting Consequences on Outback Vegetation
Australia’s desperate summer of ferocious bushfires in 2019-2020 burned more than 19 million hectares, devastating plant ecosystems and razing more than 90% of the ... -
AsiaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionForests & DeforestationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictions
City Forests Hold Promise for Significant CO2 Offsets, Study Concludes
Urban reforestation in cities in the Global South could be a cost-effective path to offsetting some part of global city emissions, according to a ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Off-Gassing Upholstery, Highway Emissions Make Cars Toxic Inside and Out
The average commute time in California is 30 minutes, and growing. And according to a new study, the half-hour spent in vehicles that off-gas ... -
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UN Report Urges End to ‘Suicidal’ War on Nature
A landmark UN report has delivered a shattering synopsis of the three intertwined emergencies facing humanity—the climate crisis, a devastated natural world, and catastrophic ... -
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Texas Blackouts Highlight Disaster Risk for U.S., Canadian Utilities
With many Texans still scrambling to recover from a week of freezing cold weather, power blackouts, and water shortages, early analysis in the United ... -
AfricaAsiaBrazilClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySoil & Natural SequestrationSouth & Central America
Tree Programs Should Favour Natural Regeneration Over Commercial Plantations
The oil company Shell recently miscalculated the extent of its reserves on a pretty massive scale. The mistake meant its new scenario for meeting ... -
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BREAKING: Texas Was ‘Seconds and Minutes’ from Months-Long Blackouts, Grid Operator Admits
At least 47 people were dead, hundreds of thousands of homes were still without power, half of the state was under a boil water ...
