Climate change buzzwords are the ‘in’ thing, but do they really make a difference? – Deccan Herald

Governments are committing to net zero. Sustainable products are being sold to you on Instagram. Banks are pushing ESGs. As climate change gets worse, it seems like everyone wants you to know that they’re doing something about it. But what…

We All Must Rise to the Challenge of Climate Change – UT News – UT News | The University of Texas at Austin

We’re feeling the impacts of climate change all around us. Rising temperatures are changing our landscapes and livelihoods. The Great Barrier Reef is suffering from thermal stress that contributes to coral bleaching — more than half of the reef’s coral…

My Turn: Time to nix the bad habits – Concord Monitor

My Turn: Time to nix the bad habits OUR ENVIRONMENT NEEDS MORE LOCAL REPORTING The Concord Monitor is launching its Environmental Reporting Lab, a long-term effort to better inform the community about the New Hampshire environment. To launch phase 1…

Opinion | Can High-Tech Capitalism Address Climate Change? – The New York Times

Planet’s satellites plus AI, Marshall explained, can track a country’s trees, farmlands, coral reefs, coastal mangroves and smokestack emissions with incredible precision — down to three meters — and provide transparency to show which trees are being illegally logged by…

School textbooks often lack accurate climate science – Popular Science

The following is an excerpt from Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America by Katie Worth. A middle-schooler who thumbed through the pages of iScience—a textbook that as of 2018 sat on the shelves of a quarter of American…

Technology Not Treaties will Reduce Global Warming – State of the Planet

As we leave COP26 behind, we see both progress against climate change and frustration about the strength and likely effectiveness of the agreement reached. Over the past two decades, climate change has moved from the fringe to the center of…

Photos: A climate change journey across 18 countries and territories at risk : The Picture Show – NPR

Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to…

Landsat 9 returns its 1st Earth images

Landsat 9 took its first images of Earth on October 31, 2021. Enjoy these views of Earth from space, as Landsat 9 begins its monitoring of the land below.

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Analysis: Dead or alive? COP26 climate talks strive to save 1.5C warming goal – Reuters

Glasgow U.N. summit aims to keep 1.5C limit within reach Scientists say world on track to exceed temperature goal Possible overshoot means 1.5C merely “on life support” GLASGOW, Nov 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An overarching goal for the COP26…

Explainer: What’s the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C of global warming? – Reuters

GLASGOW, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Over and over at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, world leaders have stressed the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2015 Paris Agreement commits countries to limit the global average…