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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs.

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Big Oil Clouded the Science on Extreme Weather. Now It Faces a Reckoning.

DeSmogBlog

Scientists said the deluge and its aftermath — not the county’s first “100-year flood” in recent years — are a harbinger of the intense and dangerous rainstorms that a warming climate is making more likely. Nicky Sundt, a climate expert and former communications director for the U.S.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. The southeastern U.S.,

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See how CO2 emissions dropped by 17 percent

Greenability Magazine

With more people staying at home to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, CO2 emissions dropped 17 percent during the peak shutdown in early April, according to a study published by the science journal, Nature Climate Change. View the report at Nature Climate Change.

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Train to be a Climate Reality Leader

Greenability Magazine

Would you like to learn more about climate change and become a leader in educating others? The Climate Reality Leadership Project is now accepting applications for a free virtual training program. More than 31,000 people, ages 12 to 87, from 157 countries have been trained since 2006.

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate deniers and those who oppose climate action. In Italy, daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and “isn’t news.” Changing Extremes.