Tag: climate change
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Robert Redford Calls on President Obama to Keep His Promise on Climate Change
In a powerful new tv and online ad campaign, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Trustee Robert Redford singles out the most effective tool for tackling this crisis …
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Do You Live In One of the 16 Cities at Risk of Climate Fueled Storm Surges?
A new report from CoreLogic details how 16 cities on the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. might fare with sea-level rise and climate-fueled storm surges. The numbers are staggering. All told, 4.2 million homes are at risk of storm surges …
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Customers Call Out United Airlines Over Climate Greenwashing
They are voicing their concerns about United Airlines leading the U.S. aviation industry in opposing multiple efforts to curb climate change pollution, at home and abroad, in contradiction to its stated commitment to being environmentally responsible …
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New IEA Report Calls for Energy Revolution to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has today released a major new report warning that nothing short of an “energy sector revolution is required to protect the world from runaway climate change and …
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How Do You Feed 9 Billion People?
In a paper appearing in Nature Climate Change, members of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project unveiled an all-encompassing modeling system that integrates multiple crop simulations with improved climate change models. AgMIP’s effort has produced new knowledge that better predicts global wheat yields while reducing political and socio-economic influences that can skew data and…