Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

There are broadly five areas where climate impacts are hurting the UK's built environment, according to Limbert: overheating, flash flooding, water scarcity, storm damage, and the widespread infrastructure changes required to introduce space cooling in buildings. We have to learn new behaviours and new aesthetics."

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Resilience Climate change Cooling Sea level rise 40

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 89

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Cities, meanwhile, can be cooled by parks and ponds and greening streets and buildings' rooftops and walls. People living in cities face worsening heat stress, reduced air quality, food, and water shortages.

Resilience 49

Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 49

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating burnout while advocating for climate justice Bathroom Battlegrounds A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray (April 2020). Venus Lun, S.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Lovelock’s main concern was not warming caused by the greenhouse effect, however, but the prospect of a precipitous drop in temperatures caused by the localised cooling influence of atmospheric pollution. But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, there are so many crops getting irrigated , water is evaporating off them and cooling summer days in parts of the Midwest, like central Wisconsin, countering some of the warming from climate change. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks.

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Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Sea level rise 145