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Amid climate crisis, Shell's financial windfall is profiteering at its most grotesque
Aug 06, 2022 12:06We may be in the dying days of the fossil fuel empire, but those companies are enriching themselves like never before, as people die from our climate crisis.
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Greenland loses 6 billion tons of ice in 3 days, harbinger of unprecedented coastal flooding
Jul 30, 2022 11:08If all Greenland's ice melts, it would raise the seas by more than 24 feet.
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Greenpeace sues UK government to stop massive offshore drilling project
Jul 29, 2022 15:31Greenpeace filed suit against the United Kingdom government recently, contending that the recent approval of a new North Sea gas field was unlawful because officials refused to evaluate how greenhouse gas pollution from Shell's so-called Jackdaw project will exacerbate the climate emergency.
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Extreme heat is destroying biodiversity
Jul 26, 2022 14:15The planet's amazing biodiversity is threatened as plants and animals struggle to adapt to conditions they're not built for.
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Critics warn drilling project in Arctic would unleash dangerous “carbon bomb”
Jul 12, 2022 15:34Climate groups raised the alarm and put President Joe Biden on notice after the Bureau of Land Management opened the public comment period for a proposed drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic that critics warn would unleash a dangerous “carbon bomb” and threaten pristine ecosystems if given approval by the federal government.
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'Off the scale': Warmer Arctic Ocean fueling climate feedback loop faster than previously known
Jun 22, 2022 07:27New scientific research published recently shows the waters in the North Barents Sea are warming at a rate that is much more rapid than most climate models have predicted, with worrying implications about feedback loops for the larger Arctic region and far beyond.
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NOAA says CO2 levels highest in human history
Jun 09, 2022 13:46There is more carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere than at any time in the past four million years, as the world's continued dependence on fossil fuels keeps humanity hurtling toward a "global catastrophe," officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned recently.
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Study shows people in US and UK face huge financial hit if fossil fuels lose value
May 28, 2022 15:15A study shows individuals in rich countries face huge financial losses if climate action slashes the value of fossil fuel assets, despite many oil and gas fields being in other countries.
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Study warns many fossil fuel sites must be shut down to avert climate disaster
May 20, 2022 13:19A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters shows that keeping global warming below the key 1.5°C threshold by the end of the century will require not just halting the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure, but also shutting down many existing sites.
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Earth's atmospheric CO2 hasn't been this high in millions of years
May 20, 2022 13:14New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the weekly average CO² concentration at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 421.13 parts per million (ppm) from May 8 to May 14—the highest in recorded history and up from 418.34 ppm one year ago and 397.38 ppm one decade ago.