Drive to 1.5 Failure Is Not An Option
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Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsPetrochemicals & Plastics
‘Essential’ Insect Populations Declining by 1-2% Per Year
Too often denigrated as “creepy crawlies,” insects are essential to life on Earth, supporting everything from pollination to the carbon cycle. Poisoned, starved, robbed ... -
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After Early Momentum, Cascadia Region Loses Focus on Climate Action
Political infighting, misinformation campaigns, and serial communication failures have dashed any hopes that the Cascadia region would take the lead in the climate fight ... -
AustraliaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Smoke Exposure Could Mean Higher Microbial Infection Risk for Wildland Firefighters
Wildfire smoke contains microbes, a fact that’s often ignored, but one that may have important health repercussions, Wildfire Today reports. -
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Africa Needs ‘Decarbonization Shock’ to Prevent Decade of New Fossil Fuel Investments
It will take a “decarbonization shock” to jolt utilities and governments in Africa into a quick transition to renewable energy this decade that avoids ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEuropeHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsOceansUnited States
2020 Ties 2016 for Hottest Year on Record
Last year tied 2016 for hottest on record, further accelerating the melting of the Arctic region and fuelling a spate of deadly droughts, heat ... -
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Coastal Communities Face Drought as Global Warming Shrinks Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea—the world’s largest lake—is about to go down in the world. And with it could go the fortunes of some of the ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureInternationalJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
‘Baked-In’ Warming Will Push Temperature Rise Past 2°C, Adding Urgency to Net-Zero Push
Alongside the extreme weather events of 2020, new research that shows today’s atmospheric CO2 levels pushing average global warming beyond 2.0°C makes it that ... -
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U.S. Government Scientists Trace Four Years of Resistance to Trump Agenda
Over the past four years of damaging fiats and undermining actions delivered by the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency has been waging a ... -
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Scope 3 Emissions Boost Exxon’s Carbon Pollution to 730 Million Tonnes in 2019
Under mounting pressure from investors, colossal fossil ExxonMobil disclosed Tuesday that its operations accounted for 730 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingInternationalJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & Gas
Green-Talking Fossils Still Pay Big Executive Bonuses for Higher Production, New Discoveries
Even as the world’s top oil and gas companies talk earnestly about creating zero emissions targets, 27 of the 30 largest still link executive ... -
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Wind, Solar Industries Must Address Environmental Costs as Renewables Expand
Determined that there can be no “green halo” for renewables, solar and wind stakeholders in the United States are tackling the reality that their ... -
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Doig: For 1.2 Billion People, Decarbonization is a Matter of Survival
I have sat in many long Zoom calls this year discussing climate ambition. Never once have I thought these were life or death discussions ... -
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Call Off ‘War on Nature’, Guterres Urges, as WMO Puts Global Warming at 1.2°C
With the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warning that the Earth has warmed 1.2°C since the mid-1800s, and the high-stakes virtual climate summit that took ... -
‘No Time to Lose’ as Atmospheric CO2 Hits 411.3 ppm Despite ‘Tiny Blip’ from COVID Lockdowns
Carbon pollution in the atmosphere reached another record high this year in spite of the “tiny blip” resulting from reduced emissions during the COVID-19 ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEncoreFood SecurityHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & Studies
Water Shortages Affect Three Billion People, Risk Chronic Food Scarcity
With the world’s per capita supply of freshwater down by one-fifth over the last decade, more than three billion people now face water shortages, ...
