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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. Magnason’s book On Time and Water , recently released in the United States, is his attempt to answer that question. What if the world will be saved before the book comes out?”

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Ocean Conservation: Ocean Acidification and the Impacts of Fish Migration

Green Tech Challenge

Put simply, ocean acidification is the imbalance of chemical content in ocean water; whereby there is increased acidity, and upward temperature changes. The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century. Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem.

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The Blue Economy: Importance of Ocean Conservation

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The world relies on the ocean for survival, and its human inhabitants all participate in at least one daily activity, which affects the ocean ecosystem. We are all stakeholders of the ocean, participating in activities which either support, or disrupt ocean conservation.

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Not so moral money?

Business Green

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk. But it is also here that things start to go wrong, because a "financial and investment view" of climate risk should incorporate the very risks Kirk insists we should not worry about.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. Everything we need to avoid the exponential impacts of climate change is doable.

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Video Storytelling: 20 Best Climate Change and Sustainability Documentaries (Plus How To Tell Your Green Story)

Green Business Bureau

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. These documentaries exhibit how video storytelling can be used to promote sustainability and climate action. Summarized below are 20 of the best climate change and sustainability documentaries.