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Climate Change Is Intensifying the Water Cycle, New IPCC Report Finds

Circle of Blue

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. There are a handful of high-impact “tipping points” that could drastically change global or regional water cycles.

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In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

Inside Climate News

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma Forests managed by Indigenous peoples and other local communities in the Amazon region draw vast amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere while the rest of the rainforest has become a net source of the greenhouse gas, a new report has found.

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HotSpots H2O: Years-Long Drought Pushes Brazil to the Brink

Circle of Blue

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climate change. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021.

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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climate change will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climate change. These connections are especially important in the environmental area, particularly in connection with climate.

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Explainer: Why does chocolate have a high carbon footprint?

A Greener Life

Sometimes it is left out of statistics, or reported separately as LULUCF – Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. Our response to climate change is a balancing act: we work to reduce carbon emissions on the one hand and to enhance nature’s ability to absorb carbon on the other. So what are we talking about?

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Meet DeAnne Hamilton: Elevating Environmental Stories through Local TV Journalism  

Washington Nature

We hear so much about climate change, but what we're trying to do at KBTC is to try to find an opportunity to give people ideas so that they can participate in the work.” DeAnne sees her most important role as educating the next generation about how climate change affects different communities, and what they can do to turn the tide. "We

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Guest Contributor Kate Mackintosh: 200 Words to Save the Planet—The Crime of Ecocide

Legal Planet

For example, it would be possible to prosecute destruction of the Amazonian rainforest as genocide if it could be established that the destruction was intended to destroy an ethnic group as such ( this claim has been made, but it’s a tough one). Culpability attaches to proceeding to act (or failing to act) in full knowledge of the risk.

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