Business Green
MARCH 11, 2020
The world may be on the cusp of a global pandemic, but the scale of the climate crisis presents a greater long term threat and political and business leaders should not be "diverted away from climate action" as they seek to contain the worsening outbreak.
Grist
JULY 20, 2023
As the planet warms, mosquitoes are slowly migrating to higher places — and bringing malaria to populations not used to dealing with the potentially deadly disease. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.
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Grist
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 In their presentation to reporters, the authors stressed that these numbers are likely an underestimate of the scale and speed of fossil fuel production cuts required for two reasons.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
The report confirms global temperatures are currently 1.1C A separate report from IPPC scientists last summer warned that global warming is on track to far exceed 2C this century, unless rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades. If global warming transiently exceeds 1.5C
Grist
AUGUST 18, 2021
The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. The planet’s current unhinged pyrogeography has also been shaped by fires that should have been present and weren’t. There is a third facet to this planetary fire triangle, one that looks beyond present and absent fires to deep time. Photos couretesy of the U.S.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 7, 2021
In 2001, Cole met Colleen Swan, a citizen of Kivalina, during an environmental workshop in Kotzebue, Alaska, following a presentation he gave. There has been a long campaign by power, coal, and oil companies to mislead the public about the science of global warming,” the lawsuit stated, specifically naming ExxonMobil, AEP, BP America Inc.,
Grist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Even South America, in the throes of winter, saw unbelievable heat: A town in the Chilean Andes topped 100 degrees F — another all-time high. The opposite extreme — dry air — could present its own set of problems. The swampy Gulf Coast heat soared as high as 115 degrees F , rewriting records for Houston and New Orleans.
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