Alaska protections announced as Biden reportedly set to approve huge oil project
Joe Biden has announced new steps to ban oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean and limit onshore drilling in Alaska, as his administration reportedly prepares to approve a huge new oilfield in the state. Plans announced Sunday night…
Atmospheric rivers now have intensity rankings
Scientists are pushing an intensity scale for atmospheric rivers, much like the hurricane intensity scale. They think it’ll help keep people safer.
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Extreme Global Warming May Reduce Ocean’s Ability To Absorb Carbon Dioxide – Nature World News
According to one study, intense global warming could reduce the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, resulting in accelerated global warming as the greenhouse gas accumulates in the atmosphere. The decline is caused by a surface layer of low-alkalinity water…
Coastal crisis: Itâs a race against time, and tide, for those living in Odishaâs coastal villages; hereâs why
Odisha is fast losing its shoreline to rising sea levels. Its adaptation plans must not only be immediate but also foolproof
Climate Change: Short On Proof, Drowning In Nonsense
The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such banner raised by the disgruntled that has conditioned politics since Medieval times. Earlier eras saw politics underpinned by a struggle…
New Paper Shows Hurricane Activity Not Getting Worse, More Active
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has today published its periodic review of hurricane activity around the world. The author, climate writer Paul Homewood, says that official data is absolutely clear: they are not getting worse. Indeed, there is some evidence…
Fragile ice sheets could raise sea level by metres, study finds – FRANCE 24 English
Parts of Earth’s ice sheets that could lift global oceans by metres will likely crumble with another half degree Celsius of warming, and are fragile in ways not previously understood, according to new research. Advertising Read more The risk, which…
U.N. says rising sea levels pose risk of mass migration – The Washington Post
The head of the United Nations has warned that rising sea levels caused by global warming could spur a mass migration of entire populations from low-lying areas on a “biblical scale.” Speaking to the Security Council in New York about…
Two missing after Queensland mine collapse – as it happened
From 5h ago Two mining contractors are missing after a collapse at an underground zinc mine in northern Queensland. Paramedics say they’re assisting other emergency services after the “ground collapse” at the Dugald River Mine near Cloncurry just after 1pm…
UN chief says rising seas a ‘death sentence’ for some countries – Al Jazeera English
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of the threat posed by rising sea levels to hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and small island states as new data reveals seas have risen rapidly since 1900….
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