Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A group of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW), in New South Wales, will lead a symposium on the impact of climate change and other environmental challenges on Antarctica, and what can be done to preserve the continent’s biodiversity in response to these threats.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Back in 2019, actor Leonardo DiCaprio stated, “The lungs of the earth are in flames,” in reference to the fires that were blazing in the Amazon. Climate change is a top issue for young Brazilians, who fear that the damage being done by global warming poses a threat to their lives today and for the years to come. .

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new analysis released on 15 September by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, appears to show that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us. But loons, like so many other birds, are threatened by climate change.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 3, 2021

Migrating monarch butterflies declined 26% in December 2020 compared to December 2019.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2021

spent $95 billion on fixing damage caused by natural disasters last year, which was almost twice the 2019 costs.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

A study out this week found that 90 percent of media coverage accurately represented the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming, looking at thousands of articles from 2005 to 2019. But when it comes to the facts on climate change, the media appears to be on an upward trajectory.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. One problem?

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. World leaders will meet in November to figure out how to ramp up climate ambitions during the UN climate summit, which takes place annually.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 6, 2021

This monitoring capability is growing in importance as climate change increases the frequency of precipitation. Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and severity of weather events. For example, heavy rain in August 2019 resulted in flood water entering the mausoleum.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The violence of the atmospheric shifts, their deeply uneven impacts and the implications of mass extinctions that are expected at current emission levels, add up to much more than “climate change.” Climate change” seemed to encompass more possibilities for derangements of the global ecosystem.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Below, a few pieces from 2019 that are worth catching up on. The Energy Transition in 4 Charts (August 2019). 4 Takeaways From Amazon’s Huge Electric Delivery Van Order (September 2019). Global Energy Storage to Hit 158 Gigawatt-Hours by 2024, Led by US and China (April 2019).

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2021

The cryosphere—frozen areas of our planet such as the Arctic, mountain glaciers, and Antarctica—is changing at a rapid pace due to climate change. The study focused on summer 2019, which was a particularly intense melt season compared to previous years, likely influenced by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Right-leaning UK newspapers provide some of the least scientifically accurate coverage of climate change among outlets analysed in a new study, with the Daily Mail and Telegraph “well behind the curve”, according to one of its authors. . The Times and Sunday Times ’s climate change coverage was accurate 88.6

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

“These kinds of changes can be so subtle that they are indistinguishable from the naturally occurring variants that inspired them.” ” In 2019, Australia’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator deregulated gene-editing, differentiating it from genetically modified organism (GMO) technology.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

While Eni is among the world’s largest oil companies, the company’s role in climate change has so far undergone scant scrutiny. The cover of a 1970 study by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warns of “catastrophic” climate impacts from burning fossil fuels. In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 billion (13.3

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Jean-Paul Yafali, a resident of nearby Kent, Washington, thanked his good luck for the two secondhand air conditioning units that a friend had given him back in 2019. The blistering weather had many people wondering: Is this climate change? I’m from a country where it’s really hot,” Yafali told Grist. Already, the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change is exacerbating both extreme weather and wildfires it is also making diseases like the coronavirus worse. Extreme weather is one of the most pervasive and persuasive manifestations of climate change. This was evident in 2019 and into 2020.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

If you watched news about climate change on TV last year, chances are you saw a white man on-screen. The total amount of time that these broadcast networks spent on the climate crisis was down 53 percent compared to 2019. Women were also less likely to be in front of the camera, comprising 28 percent of guests.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Solar accounted for nearly half of all new power generation capacity added worldwide in 2019, surpassing wind as the fourth-largest source of capacity on a cumulative basis, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. — coal-fired electricity fell to a four-decade low in 2019, according to the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

CALGARY — Alberta Ecotrust Foundation , Calgary Climate Hub and Clean Energy Canada announced today that a recent poll shows 63 percent of Calgarians believe Calgary’s future as a vibrant city is at risk if we do not become a leader in addressing climate change. METHODOLOGY.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. launched its new “Decade That Matters” report, a deep dive into online climate discussions over the past 10 years and what these may tell us about where we are heading over the next 10 years. On March 1, BayWa r.e.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2022

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. But new research suggests the reverse is also true: Not only is climate change contributing to greater inequality, but inequality is also fueling climate change.

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Grist

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This year has already included a slew of record-setting weather events in the Northern Hemisphere, all courtesy of climate change. If you’re reading this, you probably know that weather and climate are not the same thing, and extreme winter weather doesn’t refute the existence of climate change.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2021

A report from ocean advocacy organization Oceana estimates that Amazon was responsible for 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019. While these are small steps, Amazon has committed to tackling climate change in two big ways. Online retail is a leading contributor to the problem. and Canada are sending 11.5

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Temperatures in the New York City region are rising quickly due to climate change, meaning Con Edison must accelerate its investments to keep electric service reliable and resilient for customers, acc.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report, titled The labour force in a changing climate: research and policy needs , explores how heat waves are leading to a reduction in the number of working hours in many countries, which is in turn resulting in reduced labour productivity. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It isn’t easy to transform a century’s worth of electricity infrastructure from the ground up, particularly in the face of climate change-induced firestorms. There's still a long road ahead, however, and other key DER-integration initiatives saw less success in 2019. The European and U.S.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Australia’s Black Summer, the devastating fire season that started in late 2019 and burned through early 2020, razed some 4.4 By 2100, the likelihood of unusually intense fire seasons happening in a given year will have increased by 31 to 57 percent, depending on the rate of global climate change.

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CleanTech Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Attractiveness The 2019 World Economic Forum Global Risks Report lists extreme weather, climate-change mitigation/adaption failure, and natural disasters as the three most likely and impactful global risks.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For many people, this is a moment of both fear and hope — global carbon emissions continue to increase, at the same time as demands for global climate action grow louder. Will 2019 be remembered as the year humanity turned a corner in the fight against climate change?

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of seven counties surveyed by Vattenfall, however, UK was the only outlier, where residents now view epidemics as a bigger threat than the climate crisis. Yet in every other country surveyed, climate change continued to top people's list of concerns.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many parts of the Northern Hemisphere - from the USA and Europe to India, Pakistan, and China - have in recent months suffered from the devastating impacts of record-breaking extreme weather events, which were made far more likely to occur due to climate change. Doing nothing on climate change today puts our children's future at risk.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 2, 2021

The case dates back to February 2019, when Grande-Synthe, a suburb of Dunkirk in northern France, alongside Oxfam, Greenpeace and the climate campaign group Notre Affaire à Tous, began legal action against the government for not meeting its national, European and international climate commitments.

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