Tag: climate change
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Climate Change Causing Salamanders to Shrink, Leaving Them Vulnerable to Predators and Extinction
Wild salamanders living in some of North America’s best salamander habitat are getting smaller as their surroundings get warmer and drier, forcing them to burn more energy in a changing climate. [caption id="attachment_327994" align="alignnone" width="504"] This Northern gray-cheeked salamander, Plethodon montanus, is one of the Appalachian salamander species that has gotten significantly smaller in recent…
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Court Rules New Jersey Gov. Christie Illegally Repealed Climate Standards
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie decided in 2011 that power plants no longer had to comply with previously established pollution limits. By posting an online notice saying as much, Christie essentially ended his state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). He also broke the law, according to a ruling issued Tuesday morning. The appellate…
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Group Brings Britain’s Zero Carbon Plan to U.S.
Like other groups, Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) is working to find the best ways to address and respond to climate change. The difference in ZCB is that the organization doesn’t want to rely on future promises or technologies to get the job done. ZCB says the job can be done with existing resources, sooner than…
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Divest Duke Urges University to Phase Out Investment in Fossil Fuels
Laura Mistretta is a senior Environmental Science and Policy major at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. As a student of environmental science I have made it a priority to understand the root causes of climate change in the hopes of contributing to a solution. My classes have highlighted numerous possible points of intervention:…
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Scientists Say Climate Change Could Produce ‘Irreversible’ Effects on Earth
With its new report on climate change, the largest science society in the world is intent on reaching the largest possible amount of people. That’s likely why the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) What We Know gets straight to the point without the confusing data and over-analytical language some reports offer. Instead, the report presents…