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News about Climate Change and our Planet

Month: March 2023

Winter is the fastest-warming season for continental U.S. – Axios

Average winter temperatures across the United States have increased by 3.2°F since 1970, according to an analysis from Climate Central, a nonpartisan research and communications group. Why it matters: Warm winters can exacerbate drought (because there’s less snowmelt in the…

Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play

The India-born director Joshua Ashish Dawson builds digital worlds that ruminate on the future shock of environmental destruction in the real world. This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity is changing…

The Heat Is On: Understanding the Realities of Global Warming … – Devdiscourse

The Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s changing fast. The average temperature of the planet has risen by about 1.1 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, and it’s projected to increase even more in the coming decades. This phenomenon is called…

Why East Antarctica is a ‘sleeping giant’ of sea level rise – BBC

Scientists once thought the East Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise sea levels 52m (170ft), was stable. But now its ice shelves are beginning to melt. Jan Lieser had just started going through the dozens of satellite…

The time for a climate trigger in Australia has hopefully, finally, belatedly come | Adam Morton

New Orleans was still awash in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the then prime minister, John Howard, was in climate doubt and delay mode when Anthony Albanese got to his feet in the Australian parliament to argue for a…

U.S. and Europe Angle for New Deal to Resolve Climate Spat

American and European officials are trying to reach agreement on the outlines of a limited trade deal that could help resolve a major rift over America’s new climate legislation. WASHINGTON — American and European officials meeting in Washington this week…

Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise – BBC

Getty Images By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists. The authors say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere…

Bill Gates: Asking people to stop eating meat won’t fix climate change – CNBC

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reacts during a visit with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the Imperial College University, in London, Britain, February 15, 2023. Justin Tallis | Pool | Reuters Climate change is an urgent issue, but it won’t…

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