Day: August 11, 2023

Climate Change
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Don’t Overstate 1.5 Degrees C Threat, New IPCC Head Says

The newly appointed head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jim Skea, spoke to two major German news outlets over the weekend, soon after his appointment to the role.  Speaking to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, in an interview first published on Saturday, Skea warned against laying too much value on the international community’s current nominal […]

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Environment
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Our Permafrost is Thawing – And With it Bacteria and Viruses

At the ends of the world, what was long frozen is starting to thaw. When scientists pull drill cores from deep under the surface of the Arctic, they find the ground is warming year on year, a consequence of our efforts to dig up carbon and pump it into the atmosphere. Some chunks of permafrost have […]

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