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Greenland’s Ice Sheet Collapse Could Be Closer Than We Think

Scientific American

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. One day in 2012 she was on the ice—and it rained. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018.

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Nuclear Energy’s Unsettled Revival

Circle of Blue

As a technology that produces no climate-changing gases and uses much less water to operate, this next generation of electricity-generating reactors makes a lot of sense. reactors that have closed since 2012. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S.

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Analysis: Climate advocate Mark Carney wins Canada’s 2025 Liberal leadership, becomes prime minister

A Greener Life

Mark Carney speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2012. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, has become the next Prime Minister of Canada.

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Trump’s 6 Worst Attacks on FEMA in the First 100 Days

Union of Concerned Scientists

4: Establishing a political “Review Council “ On January 24, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a FEMA Review Council to provide the president recommendations on how to improve FEMA and give states more of a role in disaster response.

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Opinion: The global response to Trump and Musk cannot be anti-EV rhetoric

A Greener Life

Elon Musks journey to the extreme right-wing It was not until relatively recently that Musk became heavily involved in politics, at least not when it did not directly implicate his business interests. Commentators who had followed him closely said he had become radicalised. It is presented as a state-media publication platform.

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Trump’s Latest Move to Deny Climate Science and What it Means for Vehicle Standards

Union of Concerned Scientists

The first of these EPA standards went into effect in model year 2012 for passenger cars. When Trump offered to payback oil industry donations with political favors , I don’t think oil executives themselves could have even dreamed up that this wishlist would be granted within 7-months of his reentering the White House.

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Trump’s Cuts Threaten NASA Plans for Astronauts on Mars

Scientific American

A budget shortfall NASA has wanted to put people on Mars for decades, but both technological and budget limitations mean that probably will not happen until the 2040s under current plans. The technology entrepreneur has long talked of colonizing the red planet, but with little consideration of societal ethics or international norms.