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COP28: Sombre climate report indicates we are on track for 3 degrees C warming

A Greener Life

According to the Emissions Gap report, released annually and which looks at the pledges made by countries to tackle climate change, the world faces between 2.5C The point of no return Climate scientists warn that facing a scenario where the world warms by 3 degrees C, we would pass a point of no-return tipping points.

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The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood

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Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. Livestock are dying off in Kazakhstan amid historic drought. Now an activist, she campaigns for Indigenous rights – and the water to sustain them. .

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

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date report yet on the physical science of climate change, synthesizing the findings of thousands of recent publications.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. The invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions.

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Policy News: January 10, 2022

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More News: Climate scientists grapple with wildfire disaster in their backyard – Axios. Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest, dies at 80 – The Washington Post. Register here. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92 – The New York Times.

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