Have we been talking about climate change all wrong? Greenhouse gasses are making the planet hotter, but some scientists argue focusing on temperature overlooks a more visible danger. For decades, environmental advocates have urged governments, companies, and individuals to take drastic actions to limit climate change and prevent the Earth’s average temperature from exceeding 1.5…
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Climate change: Earth’s past 12 months were the hottest recorded, analysis finds – NZ Herald
The last 12 months were the hottest Earth has ever recorded, according to a new report by Climate Central, a nonprofit science research group. The peer-reviewed report says burning gasoline, coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels that release planet-warming gases like carbon dioxide, and other human activities, caused the unnatural warming from November 2022…
Revealed: the 10 worst places to live in US for air pollution | Air pollution | The Guardian
The worst 10 hotspots for fine particle air pollution in the US have been revealed by The Guardian in an analysis using cutting-edge modelling. America’s top spot is not a traffic-clogged metropolis or renowned heavy industry zone but a small town surrounded by farmland and mountains. These findings – based on a model developed by…
Carnivores’ attacks on humans are becoming more common, and climate change isn’t helping
Attacks on humans by carnivorous animals have increased steadily since 1950, as growing human populations in new areas make such incidents more common, according to a study published last week. According to other experts, climate change may also be contributing to increased human-wildlife conflict. The report, which includes 33 contributors, was published in the peer-reviewed…
Global warming could trigger nuclear war, financial crisis or extinction-level pandemic by 2070 | Daily Mail Online
‘Climate endgame’ warning: Scientists warn global warming could trigger nuclear war, financial crisis or an extinction-level pandemic as soon as 2070 With global temperatures continuing to rise, a new study has warned that we are inching dangerously close to a ‘climate endgame’. Researchers from the University of Cambridge claim that global heating could trigger nuclear…
Climate change: Potential to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’ say experts
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause cascades of events we have yet to consider, or indeed both. The world needs to start preparing for the possibility of a “climate endgame.” This is according to an international team of researchers led…
Climate change adaptation puts Patagonian penguins in peril – The Washington Post
The finding that chicks are leaving the nest earlier is from data collected between 1983 and 2017. Boersma and research students regularly checked the nests of banded Magellanic penguins for chicks. Like hospital midwives, they marked the newborns with temporary identifying bands, and then with stainless-steel tags on the outer webbing of the penguins’ feet. They measured the…
Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Photographs by David Degner I meet Bob Leverett in a small gravel parking lot at the end of a quiet residential road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are at the Ice Glen trailhead, half a mile from a Mobil station, and Leverett, along with his wife, Monica Jakuc Leverett, is going to show me one of…
