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Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears

DeSmogBlog

About 100 miles off the coast of Guyana, along the northern edge of South America, the drillship Stena Carron spent Saturday, June 5 drilling a new exploratory well on behalf of ExxonMobil. Exxon is now putting Guyana at the heart of its plans to press on hunting for new fossil fuel supplies despite the climate crisis.

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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

produced LNG under long-term export contracts is destined for the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent report by energy watchdogs, a sign of Europe’s reluctance to commit to long term contracts for fossil fuels in the face of climate change. But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

Business Green

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Climate migration is part of our future. Is it a problem or a solution?

Grist

From scenes of scared Americans fleeing to Mexico in The Day After Tomorrow to the Biden administration’s discussion of migration as a matter of national security , climate migration is often viewed by wealthier nations as one of the many negative impacts of climate change.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

Business Green

Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. Climate change impacts are not a distant prospect, but today's reality, affecting nature, people's lives and infrastructure everywhere, and scientific evidence on the scale of the threat is becoming stronger all the time.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. Doedee - Virtual Satellite Constellation for Arctic Ice Changes (2009) Elsevier - The Increase in the Length of the Ice-Free Season in the Arctic by J.