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  • Economic experts warn climate crisis could spur financial crash like 2008 in US

    Economic experts warn climate crisis could spur financial crash like 2008 in US

    Mar 18, 2020 15:09

    With markets currently in turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic, US experts testified on Thursday that there is high risk for an even larger economic crisis absent urgent climate policy. A panel of economic experts brought this message to a handful of senators on Capitol Hill during a March 12 hearing convened by the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis.

  • Women shouldering burden of climate crisis need action, not speeches

    Women shouldering burden of climate crisis need action, not speeches

    Mar 15, 2020 18:53

    While climate change threatens livelihoods and security around the world, it is women who are bearing the brunt. Women predominate in the workforces of many sectors that are most vulnerable to climate change such as agriculture, livestock and fishing. To make things worse, inequalities mean women are more likely to suffer dislocation to their lives as a result of flooding and drought.

  • Report finds climate crisis is disrupting life for millions

    Report finds climate crisis is disrupting life for millions

    Mar 15, 2020 18:49

    Climate variability is one of the key contributors to increase in global disruptions due to food insecurity, displacement, and deaths from disasters. Food supplies in some of the most vulnerable regions in the world are being directly affected by impacts such as crop failures and locust swarms. Exceptional drought followed by extremely heavy rainfall markedly decreased the seasonal crop yield in the Horn of Africa during 2019.

  • Flight of fancy? Aviation industry tries to go green

    Flight of fancy? Aviation industry tries to go green

    Feb 23, 2020 16:14

    Paul Stein, Chief Technology Officer for engine maker Rolls-Royce, told AFP “Aviation is under significant pressure to improve its sustainability image,” adding, airlines are “working with us to find pathways to increase the availability of sustainable fuels, look at how electrification can impact them... and also looking to more and more efficient engines and airframes.”

  • Wildfires threaten North American water supplies

    Wildfires threaten North American water supplies

    Feb 19, 2020 14:05

    In Canada and the United States, one large and severe wildfire might increase drinking water production costs by US$10 million to US$100 million. In southern California, mudslides from heavy rainfall after wildfires caused 23 deaths and produced more than US$100 million of structural damage in 2018.

  • Record-breaking temperature of nearly 65ºF logged in Antarctica as scientists sound alarm over rapid ice melt

    Record-breaking temperature of nearly 65ºF logged in Antarctica as scientists sound alarm over rapid ice melt

    Feb 12, 2020 16:46

    Climate scientists have recently revealed the latest troubling new observation in Antarctica, illustrating the consequences of the rapid warming of the area brought on by the manmade climate crisis. The Antarctic Peninsula was warmer than the United Kingdom when the temperature was recorded. The peninsula has warmed by about 5.4º Fahrenheit over the past 50 years. The latest reading broke the previous record of 63.5º Fahrenheit (17.5º Celsius), which was recorded in March 2015.

  • Global groundwater is threatened by unsustainable practices amid climate crisis

    Global groundwater is threatened by unsustainable practices amid climate crisis

    Jan 31, 2020 10:11

    As the planet’s thermometer continues to inch upwards, one sought-after resource which is only going to increase in value is groundwater which according to experts is threatened by unsustainable practices. In this regard, we have prepared for you an interesting article written by Daniel Ross.

  • After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis (2)

    After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis (2)

    Jan 31, 2020 08:34

    Here is the second and concluding part of this article, titled, “After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis”.

  • After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis (1)

    After a decade of fracking, billions of dollars lost and a climate in crisis (1)

    Jan 29, 2020 10:11

    "Today’s climate impacts have been shaped heavily by actions taken during the last 10 years, particularly in the U.S., where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas", says Sharon Kelly, attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia, in a two- part article titled: After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis.

  • Volcanic gas bursts probably didn’t kill off the dinosaurs

    Volcanic gas bursts probably didn’t kill off the dinosaurs

    Jan 23, 2020 12:43

    A new research suggests that "massive gas bursts emitted by volcanoes about 66 million years ago probably couldn’t have caused a mass extinction event that spelled doom for all nonbird dinosaurs".