Tag: climate change
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Interactive Map Links Climate Change and Wildfires in Western States
An interactive tool produced by the group Climate Central illustrates how rising temperatures and reduced snowpack in the western U.S. have corresponded with an increase in wildfires …
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Federal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Pollution Loophole
On Friday, a key federal court ruling confirmed that Clean Air Act limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution apply to industrial facilities that burn biomass, including tree-burning power plants …
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Trees Using Water More Efficiently When Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises
The study, “Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise,” was published on-line today in the journal Nature. Dave Hollinger, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station, is a co-author with lead author Trevor Keenan of Harvard University and colleagues from The Ohio State University, Indiana University, and…
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Six Women Scale Europe’s Tallest Skyscraper to Protest Shell’s Arctic Drilling
Yesterday, climbers from Greenpeace successfully scaled the Shard in London, Europe’s tallest skyscraper, in protest against Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.
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Coral Reefs Face Point of No Return
There would be a point at which the resilience and capacity to adapt that must be inherent in corals would be overwhelmed. The conclusion is a bleak one.