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Climate change is killing Michoacan’s monarch butterfly population – The Washington Post

Every year, millions of monarch butterflies make their way across North America to spend winters in the same forests of central Mexico’s Michoacán state — a phenomenon that remains an evolutionary mystery. But in just one year, the population of…

Climate change, gun violence concern young people in Asheville – Citizen Times

As an 18-year-old, it feels as though the world is at your fingertips, and the future is bright, bold and new. Or, rather, as an 18-year-old, that is how the world should feel. Unfortunately, for many people my age, it…

Autumn has been totally skewwhiff in Sydney this year, devoid of its customary cadence and meter | Paul Daley

In the southern Australian cities where I’ve spent most of my life my birthday on the second day of autumn has always been synonymous with gentle seasonal transition. It’s no coincidence that the beginning of autumn in March is my…

World still has a chance, with drastic action, to avoid worst effects of climate change – Chicago Sun-Times

It’s human nature to underplay critical and complex problems such as climate change. Perhaps recent temperature charges, droughts and storm strength are part of an ordinary long-term weather cycle. Maybe we just need to plant more trees. Maybe new technology…

Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air? – BBC

Tackling climate change could require sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, according to the IPCC. Jocelyn Timperley looks at how these ‘negative emissions’ might work. Humanity is on thin ice. Only rapid reductions in fossil fuel use, increased efficiency…

Hundreds of trees to be felled for Cambridge bus route to tackle climate change

Hundreds of trees in an orchard designated as a habitat of principal importance in England should be felled to build a new busway to tackle climate change, councillors in Cambridgeshire voted on Tuesday. The county council voted by 33 to…

Global warming driving more extreme droughts and floods, NASA satellites show – USA TODAY

Twenty years of NASA’s global satellite data show just how much the extent, duration and severity of extreme droughts and floods have risen alongside warming global temperatures, a new study reveals. The study looked at the timing of such events…

Adam McKay: Global Warming Is Not Being Treated Like an Emergency – Jacobin magazine

Adam McKay: Global Warming Is Not Being Treated Like an Emergency By Adam McKay Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay writes in Jacobin about climate change and the institutional blindness and warped incentives that should scare the crap out of…

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