Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that makes it unequivocally clear that human beings have locked in a measure of warming for the planet that will be extraordinarily difficult to endure. Warming of 1.5 And more warming than that is very likely. If the planet warms 1.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. I mean, when you think about it.".

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “ garbage patches ” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. Smaller plastic fragments can get down into the nano territory, spanning just 0.000001 millimeter — a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This story is part of Record High , a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. Other animals can sweat a bit, but not like us. Running around in the heat, a person can shed more than two gallons of water each day, draining one of life’s precious resources at a speedy pace.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Known as “flash droughts,” these dry periods can materialize in as quickly as five days, often devastating agricultural areas that aren’t prepared for them. Flash droughts can dry out an area in the span of weeks. They can wither crops or prevent seeds from sprouting, delaying or diminishing the harvest. already face.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2021

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some 56 million years ago, just after the Paleocene epoch gave way to the Eocene, the world suddenly warmed. She studies how the PETM’s sudden warmth affected plants.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). How do you know when something becomes the norm? I’ve left out some large stories, because it’s unclear if they’re blips or part of a larger more permanent shift toward sustainability.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2023

The latest gambit from the government came in the form of a story in the Daily Mail suggesting that Labour's plans to borrow to invest in green infrastructure would increase mortgage payments by £1,000 a year. In many ways, this is all good knockabout pre-election fun of the type we can expect a lot more of in the coming months.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

Dear Umbra, Most people get that we have to stop emitting so much CO2. But even if we stopped today, what happens with the CO2 already in the atmosphere? Don’t we have to both stop producing emissions AND take CO2 out of the atmosphere at the same time? — These Onerous Obstacles Make Undoing Carbonization Hard.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. Often valid concepts in and of themselves, the problem lies in how they are touted as enviro-friendly actions while companies fail to cut their contribution to global heating.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported an average global temperature of 17.01°C, On Monday, July 3, the U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 1988, when the changing climate was referred to as global warming , it seemed obvious that the main issue with a changing climate was that the planet was getting hotter. But this isn’t the real story of a warming planet. Higher temperatures can also make extreme rain events more likely. What can Businesses Do?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As the climate warms and heat and drought in the West become more extreme , these shifts are expected to intensify. The result is a Gordian Knot of feedback loops that threaten Western forests in unprecedented ways, and scientists are racing to understand how the relationship between forests and fire is changing in response.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

As WWF launches a new report exploring what makes good corporate climate leadership, top execs from Ikea and H&M reflect on how companies can accelerate their decarbonisation efforts as part of the latest BusinessGreen webinar. The webinar also highlighted how it is critical to ensure such strategies reach right across an organisation.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo. Can you address that? You know, in some places I’ve seen people just burning rubbish because they need heat. You don’t need to develop vaccines to stop people dying from air pollution.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

For much of the past two years the global push to deliver net zero emissions has enjoyed a remarkable golden run. National and state governments have rushed to announce long term net zero emissions goals, to the point where around two thirds of global GDP is now covered by some form of target. It's that simple.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The conversation was hosted by the San Francisco-based Museum of Craft and Design , which recently housed an exhibition titled "Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience," in which visionary architects and artists were asked to create artistically interpretative solutions and prototypes for survival shelter in a warming world. (My

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Global leaders belly-flopped well short of the pool at a pivotal climate-protection summit, even after the United Nations declared a “code-red” emergency. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. The Daily Mail has – you've guessed it – given over its lead comment slot today to a writer attacking the "woke" "climate alarmist" Met Office. Have a tip or idea?

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 1995, a leading group of scientists convened by the United Nations declared that they had detected a “human influence” on global temperatures with “effectively irreversible” consequences. By now, anyone looking out the window can see flowers blooming earlier and lakes freezing later. In the coming decades, 99.9

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Yesterday was a good day for the global effort to tackle the climate crisis. But all too often they the ignore the action when it materialises, either willfully or simply because they have been distracted by the next shiny new story. And the green news avalanche did not stop there. And quite right too. I mean, just look at.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

And how were humans causing this change? Stanford science historian Ben Franta and I continue our discussion of these key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry. THACKER: What I love about this document is that you can see they’re kind of getting concerned.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching? What caught my attention was that you could start teaching without a credential as long as you enrolled in a credentialing program. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. So I decided to become a teacher.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

If you don’t know what ails the place, it might be hard to pinpoint the problem. The reasoning is that once wet, the land will stop losing carbon and the sinking will come to a halt. Although they can produce powerful greenhouse gases, wetlands can also sequester and store immense quantities of carbon.

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GreenBiz

MAY 25, 2021

Consider these stories from the past week: "Carbon is now a buzzword on corporate earnings calls," reported the Financial Times. Green finance goes mainstream, lining up trillions behind global energy transition," read a headline this weekend in the Wall Street Journal. I’m talking about markets, plain and simple. financial system.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu Only such an approach can ensure that rural and off-grid areas are not left behind in the decarbonisation process.” Cubbon did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

The conversation was hosted by the San Francisco-based Museum of Craft and Design , which recently housed an exhibition titled “Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience,” in which visionary architects and artists were asked to create artistically interpretative solutions and prototypes for survival shelter in a warming world. (My

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 13, 2016

The nightmare of global warming and climate change is usually blamed on pollution from vehicles and manufacturing. Personal stories of capitalism’s impact . Now, Alexis is fighting back by joining with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to stop oil companies from destroying the Powder River Basin and to bring solar power to the area.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Richard Wilson, director of the Stop Funding Heat campaign, said the latest donations showed opponents of climate action using conservative media platforms to push their agenda.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In 2015, nearly 200 countries agreed to “Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C Nordhaus published an article in the American Economic Review entitled Can We Control Carbon Dioxide? Two numbers.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They want to build a set of giant underwater curtains in front of ice sheets to protect them from being eroded by warm sea water. Scientists are working on an unusual plan to prevent Antarctic glaciers from melting.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely greenwashy PR pitches. members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. The spotlight Hey there, Looking Forward fam.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

And third, alongside the invaluable environmental dividend, there is an economic dividend to be reaped from tackling climate change, a fact recognised by global business and finance. In short, climate is a space where national and global interests align. That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Australia, scientists collect buckets of coral sperm, mixing one species with another in an attempt to create a new “super coral” that can withstand rising temperatures and acidifying seas. What got you interested in that topic? We can’t change the chemistry back. How do you balance those two types of stories?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Tuesday’s protest against the expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone (ULEZ), which featured on the front page of two national newspapers, was led by a group with ties to conspiracy theories and climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. You can’t prove the existence of either.”

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