Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Coastal mangroves: Restoring wetland areas could make a sizeable impact on sequestering emissions New research appears to find that wetland conservation has a higher potential mpact for mitigating climate change than other ocean-based solutions. Our oceans have been in steep decline.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Even ExxonMobil, a company that has spent decades muddying the science on climate change, wrote in a recent report : “[On] a list of the biggest challenges facing humankind … addressing poverty and climate change would be at the top.”)

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

The past few years have been marked by an uptick in extreme weather events like hurricanes and wildfires. These events, paired with record temperatures and other unusual weather phenomena — like an unusually early spring in the U.K. So — is climate change really making the weather more extreme?

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2024

The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages. Climate change and global warming are expected to increase the risk of these events occurring, which could significantly disrupt activities in the area.

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EDF Voices

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here are some reasons for hope, and helpful things you can do, now that a new season of extreme weather made worse by climate change has begun.

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POWER Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

is facing energy and climate challenges on multiple fronts. Rising energy costs, extreme weather events, and a transition away from fossil fuels have placed increasing pressure on governments and […] The post Rooftop Solar Important Piece of Fight Against Climate Change appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

A combination of record temperatures and dry weather in the UK this summer are causing “exceptionally high” levels of danger from extreme wildfires, according to the network of academics who operate the UK Fire Danger Rating System.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change. All the while, the effects of climate change — the heat waves, the blazes, the wildfire smoke — have only grown more obvious, and more costly.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 26, 2021

We’ve been hearing about climate change for decades. But extreme weather events like the devastating European floods and the recent 115-degree temps in the Pacific Northwest have people wondering if we’re closer to the end than we thought.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Major new analysis from the Potsdam Institute warns climate impacts through to 2050 could do significantly more economic damage than previously expected How bad could it get? One of the biggest uncertainties surrounding climate change is precisely how severe climate impacts could prove to be.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

The latest National Climate Assessment presents the starkest picture yet of the growing costs and risks of climate change in the U.S. In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. There’s no escaping that climate change poses serious and increasing risk to business.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New research will monitor the contribution of new native woodland in England towards mitigating the worst effects of climate change, such as flooding. They will measure rainfall, soil properties and streamflow and track changes over time. Image credit: Mark Bickerdike. Less is known about new woodlands.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. The report also noted over $1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. The changes we have already put into the ocean system will last for centuries and are making the climate crisis worse.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Cover extreme heat as a threat not a vacation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lily D’Ambrosio said the storm, which swept through the state on Tuesday afternoon and resulted in the death of a dairy farmer in South Gippsland , has caused “one of the largest outage events in the state’s history”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 22, 2019

But what about spiders can powerful hurricanes or other extreme weather patterns associated with climate change alter their behavior patterns? Hurricanes Katrina, Andrew and Harvey … Just the names can instill fear, anxiety and stress in humans.

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U.S. Green Technology

APRIL 20, 2022

The environment seems to be on most people’s minds as climate change sweeps through nations with extreme weather events and even deadlier outcomes. To play a part in reducing emissions and protecting the planet, many people have switched up their carnivorous diets and adopted plant-based eating.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

August wound up being the hottest one ever and the second warmest month on record, just behind July, according to data from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. August wound up being the hottest one ever and the second warmest month on record, just behind July, according to data from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the planet, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. Previous research tended to focus on averages, which are easier to measure than extremes, Rodell said.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

New report ranking the climate risk of every state, province and territory in the world puts parts of Australia in the top 10 per cent. The post Australian states among world’s most at risk from climate change, extreme weather appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 The group’s findings were published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change on Thursday and garnered various responses from the climate community. degrees Celsius (2.7

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Observing that the climate and biodiversity crises potentiate each other, European science advisory group EASAC has provided some commentary on this interrelationship, drawing on the most recent data, with a focus on 16 areas requiring urgent action to shield humanity from the worst. Michael Norton, EASAC’s Environment Programme Director.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis will affect the UK in an article originally written for The Conversation. But what will the climate crisis mean for the relatively mild UK? million to 5.3

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Grist

JULY 23, 2021

Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. Astonished” is the word Michael Wehner, an extreme weather researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, used to describe his reaction to the heat in an interview with National Geographic.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. In the documentary, Davies claims that climate activists want to impose an “austere” life on ordinary people. The IEA also received a £21,000 grant from U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2022

In our world of warming waters, extreme Atlantic hurricane seasons are becoming more likely and much wetter. The fact that heat and moisture fuel hurricanes isn’t new, but the two studies offer fresh insights into how climate change is shaping today’s hurricanes. That’s according to a pair of studies published this week.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission just voted on a rule that will require publicly traded companies to disclose climate-related risk, in addition to other financial risks they are already required to share with investors. Around the world, companies already recognize climate change as a real and material risk to their business.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

Many young people are already asking themselves these questions, and the answers are only getting more important with climate change. Climate change and food systems Extreme weather threatens food production cycles, and by extension, what food we each have access to. However, our work doesn’t stop there.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This story is part of Record High , a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. August wound up being the hottest one ever and the second warmest month on record, just behind July, according to data from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The average temperature in August was 16.8

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Renew Economy

JULY 12, 2023

Tighter reliability standards extended to deal with growing threat of "tail risk" events amid climate change, ageing fossil power plants, and the switch to wind and solar. The post Tight grid reliability standard extended to deal with “tail risk” and extreme weather events appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. “As Climate change is already altering our way of life. Undermining climate action is the real scandal of our time.”

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When it comes to grid resilience, coupling data on extreme weather conditions with the concept of asset fragility is the clearest way to quantify long-term utility asset risks from extreme weather events, writes Rahul Dubey of Rhizome. billion in damage done. million residential and commercial customers in Florida.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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