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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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In the US, a fungal disease is spreading fast. A hotter climate could be to blame.

Grist

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. auris infections. In the U.S.,

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides. But the environment harbors dozens of other carriers of illnesses you’ve probably never heard of. Virgin Islands.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Mekong coffee growers struggle with drought and heating climate

Unsustainable

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. The trees acted as a natural barrier to pests and disease.

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

DeSmogBlog

This followed years of lobbying from the CPS on the subject, including a report in December 2013 entitled, “Why every serious environmentalist should favour fracking”. Two ministers, Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell , and Home Secretary Suella Braverman , have also contributed to CPS reports during this period.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Nassos and Nikos Avlonas, 2013 The new edition is a practical guide to about moving towards a Sustainable Economy updated with practical case studies and supporting teaching material. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.