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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Can the first US 'chief heat officer' build a model for future resilience?

Business Green

2021 has been a scorching year for extreme heat events across North America - cities across the usually temperate Pacific Northwest reached temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in July. Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

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Is human activity responsible for the climate emergency? New report calls it ‘unequivocal.’

Grist

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We When was the last time we saw heating this fast?

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Rain comes to the Arctic, with a cascade of troubling changes

Grist

All that rain is significant because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet — like the melting of other glaciers around the world — is one of the most important drivers of sea level rise. Alaska’s western Arctic herd, which has been, at times, the largest in North America, had 490,000 animals in 2003 but just 152,000 in 2023.

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Are the climate and coronavirus crises really so alike?

Business Green

What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year? What happens if harvests fail completely and repeatedly across North Africa, the Gulf, and Latin America sparking a level of migration towards Europe and North America completely unprecedented in human history?

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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Last month, the worst heatwave ever recorded hit Japan.

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The Story of Sustainability in 2018: “We Have About 12 Years Left”

Andrew Winston

Other studies tell us that sea level rise is going to be worse than we thought, Antarctica is melting three times faster than a decade ago, and Greenland is losing ice quickly as well. Danone North America becomes the world’s largest B Corporation. Venezuela’s last glacier is disappearing. One hundred U.S.