March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
Protecting and restoring forests is one of the cheapest and most effective options for mitigating the carbon emissions heating Earth. Since the third UN climate change summit, held in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, different mechanisms have been trialed to raise money and help countries reduce deforestation and restore degraded forests. First there was Koyoto’s clean development mechanism, […]
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years. Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of […]
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Almost half of all life on Earth is “declining towards extinction… putting human wellbeing under increasing threat”, a grim new report from Queen’s University Belfast has found. The work was led by PhD student Catherine Finn and Dr Daniel Pincheira-Donoso from Queen’s School of Biological Sciences alongside Dr Florencia Grattarola from the Czech University of […]
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SWOT satellite will bounce radar off water bodies to give scientists a new window into climate change and the global water cycle. From swirling ocean eddies that help shape the global climate to millions of lakes and rivers, scientists are about to get an unprecedented view of Earth’s water. The US$1.2-billion Surface Water and Ocean […]
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