Tag: extreme weather
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Worsening Hurricanes Pushed Toward Poles By Climate Change
The hurricane season of 2014 just kicked off, and with two devastating storms wreaking havoc…
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The Best Tool to Combat Climate Change Is Nature
While calls are mounting for the need to rebuild and strengthen infrastructure such as dikes, storm-water management systems and stream-channel diversion projects, we’ve overlooked one of our best climate change-fighting tools: nature …
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President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
The plan looks to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions in a comprehensive way and takes on the question of how to protect the country from the devastating climate-related impacts we are already seeing today. With a clear, national strategy in place—and concrete steps to implement it …
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Will the World Bank Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is?
Unprecedented heatwaves, widespread food shortages, more intense cyclones and shifting rain patterns causing either floods or droughts are just some of the future problems outlined in the World Bank’s latest climate report …
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Nobel Laureates to President Obama: Reject Keystone XL and Be On the Right Side of History
Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are calling for the rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. A letter from 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners addressed to both the President and Secretary of State Kerry announced …