Drought, Famine & Wildfires
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Agroforestry Can Reduce Wildfire Risk for Mediterranean, Australia
Bringing together crops, trees, livestock, and local farmers in a land management system based on agroforestry can significantly reduce wildfire risk in the Mediterranean, ... -
CCS & Negative EmissionsDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsForests & DeforestationInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionResearch & DevelopmentUnited States
Trillion-Tree Initiative Could Distract from Climate Action, Analyst Warns
Constraints of time and space, the likelihood of accounting boondoggles, and the fact that forests are inherently unstable climate sinks, ever more so as ... -
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Developing Countries at Greatest Risk as Biodiversity Loss Threatens 50% of World GDP
Biodiversity loss is now one of the top five risks to the global economy, with more than 50% of worldwide GDP significantly dependent upon ... -
Climate Denial & GreenwashingDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsForests & DeforestationLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Emails Show Trump Appointees Using Wildfire Data to Justify Increased Logging
Obedient to Donald Trump’s inclination to prioritize industry over the public interest, political appointees in the U.S. Department of the Interior manipulated wildfire emissions ... -
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Researchers Predict Near-Record Annual Increase in Atmospheric CO2
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are on track for one of their largest annual increases since record-keeping began in 1958, driven in part by the ... -
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Demands for Climate Action Put Pressure on Conservatives in Canada, Australia
From Canada to Australia, the resistance to climate action generally associated with conservative governments may be showing early signs of burning to the ground—though ... -
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Wildfires Causing Permanent Change in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Canada’s vast boreal forest, one of the largest remaining intact ecosystems on Earth, is beginning to show signs of permanent damage and dissolution due ... -
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57% of Australians See Direct Effects of Bushfires as Power Grid Faces Peak Cooling Demand
With more than half the population directly affected by raging bushfires, a record-hot summer is producing frequent power outages on an electricity grid powered ... -
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From Newfoundland Snowstorms to Australian Bushfires, Climate Means the ‘Exceptional Becoming Normalized’
From an epic snowstorm blanketing Newfoundland to devastating bushfires and flash floods in Australia, climate change is the common thread that is turning the ... -
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Political Dysfunction, Economic Turmoil Exacerbate the Climate Crisis as Disease and Famine Spreads
Late 2019 saw the calamitous rise of both dengue fever in Honduras and hunger in Zimbabwe, events that demonstrated how government dysfunction, poverty, and ... -
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Australian Indigenous Knowledge Holds Potential for Climate Mitigation, Economic Growth
Australia’s Indigenous peoples have been living peaceably, and sustainably, with their fire-prone environment for 65,000 years, and so the nation at large—particularly the urban ... -
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Scientists Declare 2010s the Hottest Decade, 2019 the Second-Warmest Year on Record
NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have declared the 2010s the hottest 10 years on record, with 2019 the second-warmest ... -
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45 Million in Southern Africa Face ‘Critical Levels of Hunger’
Climate-induced drought and severe flooding, coupled with economic woes, have left 45 million people across Southern Africa facing critical levels of hunger and in ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCarbon-Free TransitionDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsFailure Is Not An OptionFinance & InvestmentIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Global Business Leaders Cite Climate as Decade’s Biggest Risk
Global business and political leaders have declared climate change the decade’s biggest risk, in the latest edition of an annual survey issued by the ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityNational Plans & ResponsesSevere Storms & Flooding
Morneau Cites Climate as ‘Central Focus’ of 2020 Federal Budget
The climate crisis will be a “central focus” of the 2020 federal budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau told students at Toronto’s Ryerson University Monday, ...
