Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals – Grist
As the world increasingly turns toward natural climate solutions like reforestation and grassland restoration to sequester carbon, it may be overlooking a crucial ally: animals. Protecting existing populations and restoring others to their natural habitats often improves the natural capture…
Global warming linked to spread of coastal bacteria: study – CTV News
Global warming could lead to a spread of possibly fatal infections deriving from bacteria in warm coastal waters. This is according to a new study by the U.K.’s University of East Anglia (UEA), which assessed the bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus and…
Calif. Senate Passes Bill To Punish Oil Companies For High Pump Prices
A first-in-the-nation bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump breezed through the California Senate on Thursday at the urging of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the first major vote in an effort to pass the…
Tiny island nation of Vanuatu to take climate change to the Hague – Axios
Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios The small Pacific island country of Vanuatu is poised to gain UN approval to seek an unprecedented legal opinion on what obligation countries have to combat climate change. Why it matters: Vanuatu’s resolution would give the International…
Top lawyers defy bar to declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters
Leading barristers have defied bar rules by signing a declaration saying they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters or act for companies pursuing fossil fuel projects. They are among more than 120 mostly English lawyers who have signed a declaration…
Opinion | Climate Change: The Time to Act Is Now – The New York Times
More from our inbox: All Together Now: G is for Grandpa, and for Good Why Reports of Sex Abuse Are Often Delayed The Loss of Insect Life The Manuscript Thief Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,…
Ganga, Brahmaputra Flows To Reduce Due To Global Warming: UN Chief – NDTV
Guterres voiced concern that human activity is driving the temperature to dangerous new levels (File) United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that major Himalayan rivers like the Indus, the Ganges and Brahmaputra, all hugely important for India, could…
Climate Dread Is A Luxury Belief We Can No Longer Afford
Here we go again. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new document – the final part of its mammoth sixth report – and we all know what that means. More doomsday porn in the papers. More…
UN Report Predicting A Climate Apocalypse By 2030 Met With Mockery
The United Nations released a report on Monday that claimed the planet will approach a catastrophic threshold in the 2030s unless further action is taken. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization convened by the United Nations, authored the…
This visual shows how climate change will affect generations – The Washington Post
Our children will never experience a childhood as cool as ours. And our childhood wasn’t that cool. That’s one of the stark realities underlined by the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Within that…
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