The enormous transformations to our planet from climate change can have powerful effects on our emotions, making us grieve for what is lost. Climate grief comes in many forms. There is the bereavement-like grief and trauma when a climate change-enhanced “natural disaster” hits you or your close ones. Think of people in the Amazon basin …
People in some of the world’s poorest countries are receiving as little as $1 each a year to help them cope with the impacts of the climate crisis, despite rich countries’ promises to provide assistance. Climate finance is intended to help developing countries cut greenhouse gases and protect their people from the consequences of climate …
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Australia’s summers have become twice as long as its winters amid increasing temperatures driven by climate change, according to new weather data analysis. The Australia Institute found that summer across most of the country over the past 20 years was about a month longer than in the mid-20th century, while winters had become shorter. Between …
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Climate change did play a part in Australia’s devastating 2019 bushfire season as it has increased the chances of extreme temperatures by at least 30 per cent, a new study shows. The eight-week study from World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international collaboration that analyses the effect of climate change on extreme weather events, found a …
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Click here to view original web page at insideclimatenews.org Wind-driven ocean currents are changing in a warming climate, which will affect sea level rise and fisheries. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images The world’s major wind-driven ocean currents are moving toward the poles at a rate of about a mile every two years, potentially depriving …
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Click here to view original web page at www.vox.com This odd mélange of companies, celebrities, cities, countries, and organizations have all made commitments to curb their contributions to climate change, if not eliminate them entirely. And they have one tactic in common: buying carbon offsets. For companies like Amazon and Delta aiming to be carbon-neutral, …
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Telstra has set the most ambitious carbon emissions targets of any major Australian corporation to date, after it unveiled plans to become carbon neutral this year and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2030. Telstra chief executive Andy Penn said the plan addresses what he sees as the biggest …
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Fox News Flash top headlines for March 2 Almost half of the world’s sandy beaches could be gone by 2100 if climate change continues as is, according to a new study published on Monday. The research, published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, forecasts that coastlines, which are densely populated, could see further erosion. …
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