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How climate change spurs megadroughts

Grist

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 Since 1850, global temperatures have climbed 1.2 But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit); in areas of the U.S.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. Even if we stopped burning oil and gas tomorrow, some degree of planetary warming is baked in. Here they are.

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Green Lawns or Green Living, We Need To Choose

The Environmental Blog

Lawns were there to prove a point: I’m so rich, and I have so much land, that I’m willing to waste precious soil and labor to grow something completely and utterly useless. This scary estimation rests upon three assumptions: First is Climate Change. Second is the change in rain patterns. Fertilizers.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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The ‘Last Ice Area’ is already disappearing

Grist

As with the rest of the Arctic, they are threatened by climate change. But there was reason to hope for Milne Fjord: For years, scientists believed this area, home to the oldest and thickest ice in the northern hemisphere, would survive the worst effects of global warming. degrees C (2.7

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

While there’s reason to have hope for the future with multiple vaccines promising the end of the pandemic, we unfortunately have an arguably larger global crisis looming. Even during the past administration, state- and local-level climate pledges across the country continued to grow , with two-thirds of Americans (across party lines!)

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. Not for her own benefit.