Fact check: Study misrepresented to wrongly claim global warming has slowed – msnNOW

Physics Nobel winner on urgency of climate change What to watch next Click to expand Replay Video ‘British filmmaker with unprecedented Trump access’ getting attention on the Hill journalist says The Jan. 6 committee announcing a surprise hearing for Tuesday…

How Fog Nets are Making Water Abundant in the Atlas Mountains – And May Be Useful in California

During the Moroccan desert summertime drought, fog nets are being used to provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in remote mountain villages. Now villagers can irrigate agricultural fields, turning desertified land back into green gardens, all thanks to mathematician and businessman Aissa Derhem. Derhem lived in Canada while studying for a Ph.D. […]

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How an underground phenomenon triggered by global warming is damaging the Himalayas – Mongabay-India

Permafrost thaw, one of the changes to the mountain cryosphere in the Himalayas, triggered by global warming is causing irreparable loss and damage to the valley. Considered the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth, an estimate suggests that currently, permafrost…

Despite Media Claims, New Data Shows Climate Change Isn’t Causing More Fires

The media, politicians, and climate activists like to claim that climate change is making wildfires more frequent and larger. The linkage is the supposed relationship between increasing global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration due to the burning of fossil fuels…

Amid global warming, Bangladesh’s historic coastal mosques stare at an uncertain future – Scroll.in

Since the 15th century, southern Bangladesh’s “Mosque City”, dominated by the imposing brick Sixty Dome Mosque, has been a pilgrimage destination for pious Bangladeshis and for tourists. “I believe if I wish something and visit the mosque, Allah will accept…

Warmer subsurface waters in Bay of Bengal likely fuelled Amphan super cyclone: Study

This shows a link between marine heatwaves and cyclones, say experts

This Plant From a Single Seed is Now 77 Sq-Miles Wide and World’s Largest

Shark Bay, Australia should perhaps consider a name change to Seagrass Bay, since the largest resident isn’t a great white predator, but a single seagrass meadow. After discovering that the whole bay’s worth of seagrass spread from one seed and was all part of the same plant, it instantly became the world’s largest plant—as large […]

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Will more ‘mouths to hell’ open up because of climate change? We asked a permafrost expert – Euronews

You may have seen photos of a cavernous chunk of land in Siberia recently, accompanied by headlines on the growing ‘mouth of hell’. The Batagaika crater in Yakutia, Russia, has recently entered the news again, though there’s no major update…

Biden Navy Sec. Thinks Climate Change Is Biggest Existential Threat

Just when you think you heard it all, the Navy brass is now more worried about “climate change” than they are about actual physical threats to the United States’ security. You have to wonder what compels people to think that…

Planetary defense exercise: This was only a test

As a planetary defense exercise, scientists used a recent approach of Apophis as a test to see how quickly they could track and identify a hazardous asteroid.

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