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Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record
Mar 23, 2022 04:43Antarctic sea ice shrank to below 2 million square kilometres this year, the lowest minimum extent since satellite records began 43 years ago.
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Western US’s worst drought in 1,200 years brings year-long fire season
Mar 19, 2022 20:41Winter wildfires by the names of Emerald and Airport have scorched thousands of acres in California; led to the destruction of over 100 structures in Kansas; and amid this writing, prompted the evacuation of 1,100 houses in the Florida Panhandle — at a time of year when those with intimate knowledge of the cycles of burning and regeneration once relied on wetter and cooler conditions to keep blazes at bay.
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Is super-polluting Pentagon’s climate plan just ‘military-grade greenwash’?
Mar 12, 2022 14:23US officials claim the military aims for net zero by 2050 but with a carbon footprint greater than some 140 countries critics say it needs radical change.
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Study finds six key lifestyle changes can help avert the climate crisis
Mar 11, 2022 16:09Research shows that governments and individuals making small changes can have a huge impact in reducing emissions.
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Irreversible impacts on the climate are getting locked in, IPCC warns
Mar 04, 2022 19:21Irreversible impacts of the climate crisis are getting locked in and the window to prevent even more dire changes is getting smaller, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in a new report.
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California debates naming heatwaves to underscore deadly risk of extreme heat
Mar 03, 2022 14:52Though the impact is already being felt, heatwaves are largely silent killers. Often, the toll is tallied far into the aftermath of an event and is vastly undercounted. Unlike fires and floods that produce immediate and visible destruction, heat’s harmful effects can seem more subtle – even if they are in fact more deadly.
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Scientists fear soaring methane levels show climate feedback loop has arrived
Feb 18, 2022 14:54Rapidly rising levels of atmospheric methane are "very bad news for humanity and the planet," warned one observer.
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New study says US west ‘megadrought’ is worst in at least 1,200 years
Feb 17, 2022 14:57Researchers say human-caused climate change significant driver of destructive conditions as even drier decades lie ahead.
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How ‘forever chemicals’ are using marine life to travel the world by sea
Feb 17, 2022 14:51Scientists say more must be done to eliminate the chemicals, which have a devastating impact on marine life and can end up in the food chain.
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Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014
Feb 04, 2022 14:25Study shows formerly rare high temperatures now covering half of seas and devastating wildlife.