Tag: climate change
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Report Shows Sharp Rise in Murders of Environmentalists, Only 1% of Killers Convicted
Killings of people protecting the environment and rights to land increased sharply between 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies, a new report from Global Witness reveals. In the most comprehensive global analysis of the problem on record, the campaign group has found that at least 908 people are known to have died in this time.…
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Climate Change Causes Chain Reaction in Ecosystems
A collaborative study released yesterday involving scientists from the Cambridge Conservation Initiative has shown that climate change is altering species distributions and populations, seemingly through shifting interactions between species rather than direct responses to climate. [caption id="attachment_330572" align="alignnone" width="500"] The study shows that many of the climate-related impacts on a given species occur as a…
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ExxonMobil Ignores IPCC Warning, Vows to Burn All Oil Reserves
Yesterday the world’s leading climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published their final report in their recent trilogy of warnings about climate change. The latest authoritative document, produced by 1,250 international scientists and approved by nearly 200 governments, argued that climate change can be avoided if we move fast to decarbonise the…
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New IPCC Report: Fossil Fuel Divestment Must Start Now
For the second time in three weeks, a United Nations panel sent a loud-and-clear message—now is the time to divest from fossil fuels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released another addition to its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Sunday in Berlin, Germany, entitled Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, to detail how the world can keep…
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Why Methane Is CO2′s Evil Stepsister (And Why We Should Care)
Carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas that gets tossed around in most climate change conversations. But methane (CH4) is making its way into the mainstream spotlight. Here are some things that are happening: Climate change is warming up areas that were typically cold enough for permafrost. Permafrost—soil that’s frozen year round and comprises 24 percent…