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Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point. Extreme climate within decades

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The Benefits of Mangroves (2023)

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Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves...
Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves play a critical role in a lot of marine ecosystems: they filter the water, act as a nursery habitat, and maintain healthy biodiversity. Mangroves also protect Southwest Florida’s coastlines from storm surg...

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Could the planet be warmer than we thought?

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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A handful of centuries-old sponges from deep in the...
Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A handful of centuries-old sponges from deep in the Caribbean are causing some scientists to think human-caused climate change began sooner and has heated the world more than they thought.They calculate that the world has already gone past the inte...

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World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year

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Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for...
Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time on record.The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global mean temperature for the 12-month period through to January was 1.52 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 pre-industri...

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The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires

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The provincial government of Alberta defines a “wildfire of note” as a blaze that could “pose...
The provincial government of Alberta defines a “wildfire of note” as a blaze that could “pose a threat to public safety, communities or critical infrastructure.” Last year, Alberta’s first wildfire of note broke out unusually early, on April 30th, near the tiny town of Entwistle, about sixty-five miles west of Edmon...

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Paintings Reveal How the Dutch Adapted to Extreme Weather in the Little Ice Age

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On the afternoon of January 2, 1565, an iceberg drifted down the harbor of Delfshaven, a...
On the afternoon of January 2, 1565, an iceberg drifted down the harbor of Delfshaven, a fishing village in the Netherlands. According to the inscription on a 16th-century oil painting of the event, the block of ice measured nearly 20 feet tall and 230 feet wide—large enough to cut off the village’s access to the Ni...

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Six Spongy Sea Creatures Suggest Warming Might Be Worse Than Thought

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Research on a long-lived but rarely seen species in the Caribbean is helping scientists piece together a revised history of climate change.Share full articleS...

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The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges

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The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids

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China came to dominate electric cars

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Climate Models Predict More Warming

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Dr. Roy Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)...
Dr. Roy Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) after being a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. He is a meteorologist, has published research on various weather and climate problems, and co-developed (with John Christy, UAH) the original method for monit...

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Oil firms forced to consider climate effects of new drilling, rules Norway court

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Coping with climate change could be a matter of what building you're in

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Methane 'Super-Emitters' Mapped by NASA's New Earth Space Mission

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Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional

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Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change

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Alphabet's Moonshot X Lab Cuts Staff

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Dickson Despommier wants our cities to be like forests

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In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University,...
In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, was teaching a class on medical ecology in which he asked his students, “What will the world be like in 2050?,” and a follow-up, “What would you like the world to be like in 2050?” As Despommier told The New Yo...

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Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation

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On average, a humble wind turbine uses less land area per megawatt-hour than almost any other...
On average, a humble wind turbine uses less land area per megawatt-hour than almost any other power source. Even so, a wind turbine and its tower can sometimes be too cumbersome. The still-nascent field of airborne wind energy (AWE) has a solution: Swap out the turbine for a kite on a string. Not only is a kite nimb...

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Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously estimated

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By Cara Tabachnick January 17, 2024 / 8:24 PM EST / CBS News Greenland's ice sheet...
By Cara Tabachnick January 17, 2024 / 8:24 PM EST / CBS News Greenland's ice sheet is melting faster than scientists previously estimated, according to a study released Wednesday in the journal Nature, with the loss believed to be 20% worse than previously reported. Since 1985, Greenland's ice sheet has lost approxi...

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The Threshold at Which Snow Starts Irreversibly Disappearing

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Global heating may breach 1.5°C in 2024 – here's what that could look like

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Oceans break heat records five years in a row

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Earth shattered global heat record in '23 and it's flirting with warming limit

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Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and...
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. (Jan. 9) (Video produced by Teresa de Miguel) Photos Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] ...

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