Food Security
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Study Traces Options for Cutting Life Cycle Emissions from Plastic
With carbon pollution from every stage of the plastics life cycle on track to grow four-fold by mid-century, a new study in the journal ... -
Climate Change Devastates Honduran Coffee Farms, Drives ‘Desperate’ Northbound Migration
Small-hold coffee farmers from Honduras number increasingly in the caravans of desperate people streaming north out of Central America, as the devastation wrought by ... -
AsiaCanadaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEuropeFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHydroIce Loss & Sea Level RiseTravel, Leisure & RecreationUnited StatesWater
Two New Studies Trace Massive Glacier Loss Linked to Climate Change
North America accounts for more than half of the 369 billion tons of snow and ice the world’s glaciers are losing each year, and ... -
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UN Agency Backs Futuristic Floating Cities as Hedge Against Sea Level Rise
A research coalition backed by a United Nations agency will look at the possibility of building floating cities to provide a futuristic form of ... -
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Long-Delayed Emergency Warning for Steelhead Trout Has Implications for Trans Mountain Pipeline
The federal government has spent more than year considering an emergency warning from scientists that pits endangered steelhead trout, and their importance to the ... -
Climate-Induced Warming Harms Food Chains by Leaving Insects ‘No Place to Hide’
Overheating is just as hazardous to insects in shaded woodlands as it is in open grasslands, meaning they receive no respite from climate-induced warming, ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
Meili: Saskatchewan Wants Climate Action, Not ‘All-or-Nothing Political Games’
Saskatchewan will be asking the wrong question on climate change until it looks beyond the carbon price debate and considers how to build a ... -
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Green Roofs Would Save 770 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Green roofs rank #73 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. By the year 2050, an increase in green and cool roofs could save 0.77 ... -
Drive to 1.5Energy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecuritySevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Midwestern U.S. Loses Hundreds of Miles of Levees After ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Flooding
Severe flooding across midwestern U.S. states like Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri has taken out hundreds of miles of levees, leaving officials to compare the ... -
AustraliaCitiesDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureIndiaSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Australian Farmers Face Suicide Risk as Multi-Year Drought Turns from ‘Crisis’ to ‘Marathon’
A brutal, multi-year drought brought on by climate change is taking its toll on the mental health of Australia’s farmers, just as it has ... -
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WEBINAR SUMMARY: Connect Climate Crisis to Peoples’ Daily Lives, Pike Urges
At a time when public opinion on climate change is shifting in some “pretty positive ways”, climate communicators’ goal should be to make the ... -
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Canada Warming at Twice the Global Average, Deep Emission Cuts and Adaptation ‘Imperative’, Ottawa Concludes
Climate change is warming Canada twice as fast as the global average, Northern Canada is heating up nearly three times as fast, and three ... -
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Lookback from 2050: NPR Essay Shows How We Got Climate Change Under Control
It’s 2050. We’ve got climate change under control. And we got the job done through mass electrification, reimagining cities, protecting forests, and changing the ...
