GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. Mon, 11/30/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Climate TRACE will empower all of these actors." . Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? How can we be sure? To be clear, the data isn’t encouraging.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 The group’s findings were published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change on Thursday and garnered various responses from the climate community. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A respected global voice on environmental sustainability and climate change, Hawken has consulted with heads of state and industry leaders and has spoken about his work on media platforms worldwide. It is accompanied by online platform Regeneration.com, that has the most complete listing of climate solutions in the world.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Terra Fondriest via FERN As early as the 1950s, however, ranchers began to notice tall fescue’s disturbing effects: One study showed that cattle had to be fenced out of other grasses before they’d touch fescue.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5 The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. degrees C above the preindustrial average.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue. Researchers at BayWa r.e.,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. What that means is that there’s no intention to harm but the negative consequences can be just as powerful.”

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

She and her colleagues followed all the conventional advice about what to say, but something felt off. Listening to them present steps of what he should have done to protect his home from fire had been traumatizing. That really forced me into a reckoning about what science communication is,” she said.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2023

The world’s oceans have reached their warmest levels in modern history, outpacing climate forecasts and alarming scientists. Climate Change Institute / University of Maine “The oceans are enormous, so they don’t warm very quickly ordinarily,” Robert Rohde, a physicist at the environmental data science nonprofit Berkeley Earth, told Grist.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. I did Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Insect populations worldwide are in sharp decline as they battle against climate change, habitat loss and pesticides. We were surprised by what we found. Adding ozone also changes the smell of each of the chemicals that make up a flower’s scent. But this is unlikely to be the full story.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This creates a tricky paradox, which renowned climate scientist James Hansen has called a “Faustian bargain.” Now, new research shows that the interaction between aerosols and greenhouse gasses also has implications for flooding, which is one of the costliest climate disasters. Persad wasn’t involved in the study.) “If

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Michael Grossman

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

However, effectively communicating these advantages to the target market requires a strategic approach to branding and positioning. The UVP is based on three criteria: Is what I’m saying about my solution true? But that’s not why they will buy from a nascent cleantech startup. Would the audience I’m targeting care about my solution?

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

On Thursday, the climate-data sleuths at Carbon Mapper published a study in Science that shows the nation’s landfills emit that gas at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. In the waste sector, specifically, we know what technologies to implement – we’ve known for a number of years.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. The typical stories of environmentally-driven collapse that you might have heard about Easter Island or the Mayan civilization? It’s just not the whole story. degrees C (5.8

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

The spotlight It’s no secret that climate change poses a threat to our agricultural systems. And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Why we need strong vehicle and power standards for our economy to thrive in the face of climate change The first two weeks of July saw the hottest temperatures on Earth in recorded history. The scale of these costs of climate change are significant and only rising. climate goals. climate goals.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5 Talking climate. per cent of all major U.S. broadcast news coverage.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. The spotlight There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2023

Bernhard has sustainability integrated at its core and works with their clients to create an energy-efficient, low-carbon world, and in this Green Business Bureau member story, we discuss how. However, these risks are proactively mitigated with effective and efficient energy measures paired with good operations and maintenance practices.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2022

The new research, conducted by scientists at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, indicates that climate models have consistently underestimated what is known as “Arctic amplification,” where warming happens faster in the Arctic compared to the planet on average. Julia Kane.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Growing up, I thought my parents knew what to do about everything, including caring for the environment. Now, more than 30 years later, the critical moment is upon us to confront global climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

If you watched news about climate change on TV last year, chances are you saw a white man on-screen. The total amount of time that these broadcast networks spent on the climate crisis was down 53 percent compared to 2019. In 2020, a presidential election year, politicians were the most common guests for climate change segments.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

Today’s story focuses on a vehicle for systemic change that at first glance may not seem like a space for personal action: policy. should be enacting more ambitious climate policies, but influencing that as an individual may feel out of reach. Most Americans agree that the U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes can already be seen. In August of 2021, rain fell atop the 10,551-foot summit of the Greenland ice cap, triggering an epic meltdown and a more-than-2,000-foot retreat of the snowline.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Urgent Problem of Climate Change. Our planet is changing. . We need to pay attention and change our behavior. Scientists warn that we are rapidly approaching critical tipping points in our climate system, which could result in adverse impacts such as droughts, floods, and extreme weather events. How To Divest.

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2022

inches, twice as much as previous estimates, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of the world’s top scientists, projected a two- to five-inch rise by 2100, depending on how much more carbon gets pumped into the atmosphere.

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Grist

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restoring natural landscapes damaged by human exploitation can be one of the most effective and cheapest ways to combat the climate crisis while also boosting dwindling wildlife populations, a scientific study finds.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” — a passage from “ Cabbage Koora ,” by Sanjana Sekhar The spotlight Nearly 4 in 5 people support doing “whatever it takes” to mitigate climate change, according to a survey published late last year by the firm Potential Energy. But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

This week, hundreds of scientists from around the world are finalizing a report that assesses the state of the global climate. So who are these scientists, and what goes into this important assessment? What is the IPCC? IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A lot can change in eight years.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

Common wisdom says that the average person doesn’t care about climate change because they think its effects will unfold in the far-off future or in faraway places. So to get them to do something, you have to make those effects — the floods, the heat, the fires — feel immediate and personal. One problem?

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Grist

JULY 19, 2021

Research shows that the main culprit behind climate change — increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — is supercharging poison ivy. Elevated levels of CO2 might not be the only climate-related factor making poison ivy more of a threat. Which is of course what the planet is doing.”.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2023

We discuss key topics and terms within their industry, challenges they’ve faced along the way, and what gives them a competitive advantage. Beyond business operations, we also discuss why their work is meaningful to them and what gives them hope for the future.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2022

This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Leinbach and her colleagues don’t know how much longer these energetic and reproductive effects will last, though the group is dedicated to figuring it out. There’s a lot of variation.”

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2023

But with Greenland reaching its highest temperatures in the past 1,000 years , the scene is changing. Visual observation and remote sensing leave Heide-Jørgensen and fisheries biologist Brian Mackenzie with little doubt that a potentially irreversible regime shift – a change from one stable ecological condition to another – is occurring.

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