Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. A new study rejects that assumption, finding instead that the main drivers of the famine are poverty, natural variations in weather, and poor infrastructure. Image © Heinonlein / Wikimedia Commons.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 3, 2024

Although there are many efforts underway to reduce emissions as much as possible to slow climate change, due to the excess emissions we’ve already produced, we will continue to experience the impacts of our changing climate. The good news is we know what needs to be done. Climate Resilience Toolkit U.S.

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Law and Environment

JULY 31, 2023

I’ve posted previously about the importance of extreme heat among the impacts of climate change. Spoiler alert – the news isn’t good. “ The post Can We Afford to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change? Much of the popular literature focuses, rightly, on the public health impacts. Can We Afford Not To?

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. In 2023, the U.S. In the U.S.’s

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 7, 2024

But it hasn’t gotten enough this year, and likely won’t in the future, a victim of a climate crisis it didn’t cause. By Georgina Gustin CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

After reading the recent (and very dumb) New York Times expose by Matt Richtel on e-bikes , you’d be forgiven for mistaking electric-assist bicycles for the next big threat to human health. But 3 other news stories about the benefits, and growing pains, of e-bikes show there’s real interest in them as a climate solution.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How is climate change affecting our ocean? As our ocean absorbs carbon, it becomes more acidic, which is especially bad news for shell-building organisms like oysters. What does climate change mean for fish? Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 17, 2024

2024) “Climate Change and Climate Technologies: Public Perceptions and Communication Challenges”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. link] Abstract Numerous survey studies reveal insight into the public’s attitudes about climate change. Bertka, C.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 12, 2024

For Sattler, a registered nurse, emerita professor of public health at the University of San Francisco and founding member of the international Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments , it starts with being able to describe what climate change is.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 29, 2024

“Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature.” ” Journal of Climate Action, Research, and Policy, 01, 2475001. The increasing greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide from … Continue reading Characterizing Climate Change from Heating, Not Merely Temperature

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Read the full story at Food Business News. The market researcher’s annual Lifestyle and Attitude Survey found 55% of shoppers in the United States and Canada are engaged in actions … Continue reading Climate change gets personal.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2024

… Continue reading Climate change is coming for your insurance For communities across the country, Louisiana’s insurance crisis is a hint of what’s to come: Altogether, close to one in five residents in the state lost their homeowners insurance last year.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2024

Read the full story at Energy News Network. A growing body of scientific research is highlighting the indirect ways hydrogen could worsen climate change — and critics say the risks are largely being ignored by the federal government.

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Climate Change Blawg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The following are some of the top climate change legal influencers on Twitter. They are some of the best lawyers, legal academics and legal organisations trying to turn the tide on climate change through change in the law across many different jurisdictions.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 27, 2023

By Georgina Gustin A group of scientists have concluded that a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, where tens of millions of people and animals have been pushed into starvation, would not have happened without the influence of human-caused climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How is climate change affecting our ocean? As our ocean absorbs carbon, it becomes more acidic, which is especially bad news for shell-building organisms like oysters. What does climate change mean for fish? Some effects of climate change aren’t as easy to spot as shifting ranges or fish stock collapses, however.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 5, 2023

A new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assessed changes in the reproductive output of 104 bird species between 1970 and 2019.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 16, 2024

A climate script consultancy has introduced a variation on the “Bechdel test,” a measure of women’s interactions in film, for climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2024

Climate change is disrupting the seasonal flow of rivers in the far northern latitudes of America, Russia and Europe and is posing a threat to water security and ecosystems, according to new research. Read the full story from the University of Leeds.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 29, 2022

A new tool can tell you how big an impact climate change had on the temperature in those cities on any given day, plus postcards from the apocalypse, multilingual storm warnings and a plastics curriculum for school kids. By Katelyn Weisbrod Was the temperature in your city on a given day influenced by climate change?

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 30, 2024

Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa and elsewhere, experts say. By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch and Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette/Wisconsin Watch The art of maple syrup production flows through generations of Dan Potter’s family history.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 8, 2022

The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 24, 2024

A new report untangles the impact of global warming on an “exceptional” drought across the world’s largest land-based carbon sink.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 11, 2024

“Envisioning action-oriented and justice-driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists.” 16; ages … Continue reading Envisioning action-oriented and justice-driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“Review of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Water Management.” Elgendy, M., Hassini, S., & Coulibaly, P. ” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 29(1), 03123001.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 12, 2024

“Building Climate Change into Medical Education: A Society of General Internal Medicine … Continue reading Building Climate Change into Medical Education: A Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement Townley, T., Whelan, H., & on behalf of the SGIM Environmental Health Interest Group, M.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 22, 2022

Booklist published its first core collection on climate change in 2006, and all of the books listed there are still urgently important because the reality of global warming is still being denied in spite of ever-rising planetary temperatures and the ever-worsening impacts of climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2024

There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers — with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 15, 2021

The Climate Change Library Lab provides information and advice specific to libraries to help them prepare for climate-related disasters or deal with post-disaster recovery within their communities. Read more →

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Inspired by the book All We Can Save , a celebration of the feminist climate renaissance , we asked 15 local women who are thinking about and working on climate change to respond to the question: “If we are at a crossroads of peril and promise, where do you see possibility alive and growing?”

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Frontiers

MAY 10, 2023

They are also vulnerable to climate change as their shells are sensitive to ocean acidification. They found that one is less vulnerable to changes in the Southern Ocean than the other. Now, a team of researchers in the UK has examined life cycles of two sea snail species. Selling the articles is not allowed.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 21, 2022

. “The role of felt responsibility in climate change political participation.” ” Oxford Open Climate Change, 1(1), kgab012. link] [open access]] Abstract: This research letter investigates the role of feelings of responsibility to reduce climate change (i.e.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2022

Read the full story at Food Business News. The US Department of Agriculture will continue to push climate change as a policy issue in farm and export programs, Department officials said in comments at the 37th International Sweetener Symposium held Aug. 1 in Vail.

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Climate Change Blawg

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Climate change has become a major concern globally, as the world faces increasingly severe environmental challenges. With the increased need to solve these concerns, there is a growing demand for environmental law and climate change specialists.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The latest issue of Wild Heritage News from the PA Natural Heritage Program features articles on-- -- Climate Change Vulnerability Of Plants In PA -- Tracking Changes In Pennsylvania’s Peatlands -- Invertebrate Discoveries -- A Thousand Invertebrates Get Some Love For State Wildlife Action Plan -- Limestone Cliff Updates -- Specimen Data Sharing Improvement (..)

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 26, 2024

By Marianne Lavelle In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research project with benefits they said were too “immense” to be quantified, since they involved “ensuring man’s survival,” according to a White House document newly obtained by the nonprofit National Security Archive and shared exclusively (..)

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