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Turkey Ratifies Paris Agreement, Becoming the Last G20 Country to Join

Turkey Ratifies Paris Agreement, Becoming the Last G20 Country to Join

Turkey’s parliamentarians on Wednesday unanimously approved the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels. Although one of the first countries to sign the agreement in April 2016, Turkey had held off ratifying it until now while seeking […]

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    Rock Climbing Legend Alex Honnold Wants You to Stop Funding the Climate Crisis

    Rock Climbing Legend Alex Honnold Wants You to Stop Funding the Climate Crisis

    World-renowned rock climber Alex Honnold, famous for his free ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan’s 3,000-foot sheer rock face in Free Solo, has found his next “mountainous” challenge: the climate crisis. The athlete, who is a life-long environmentalist, has partnered with financial technology innovator Ando to fight and reverse climate change through sustainable banking. And, he’s […]

    Scientists Meet for Key Report Ahead of COP26 as Climate Crisis Batters the World

    Scientists Meet for Key Report Ahead of COP26 as Climate Crisis Batters the World

    By Kenny Stancil Amid an ongoing wave of extreme weather disasters and ahead of a major United Nations climate conference this fall, top scientists from nearly 200 countries began meeting Monday to finalize a landmark report detailing how the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency is already wreaking havoc around the globe and what society must do […]

    On Climate Crisis and COVID-19, G7 Is Judged a ‘Colossal Failure’

    On Climate Crisis and COVID-19, G7 Is Judged a ‘Colossal Failure’

    By Jon Queally Anti-poverty groups, climate campaigners, and public health experts reacted with outrage and howls of disappointment Sunday after the G7 leaders who spent the weekend at a summit in Cornwall, England issued a final communique that critics said represents an extreme abdication of responsibility in the face of the world’s most pressing and […]

    Arctic Warming 3x Faster Than Earth’s Average Rate, Study Finds

    Arctic Warming 3x Faster Than Earth’s Average Rate, Study Finds

    By Kenny Stancil Over the past five decades, the Arctic has warmed three times faster than the world as a whole, leading to rapid and widespread melting of ice and other far-reaching consequences that are important not only to local communities and ecosystems but to the fate of life on planet Earth. The Arctic Monitoring […]

    African Rainforests Are Surprisingly Resistant to Small Changes in Climate, Study Finds

    African Rainforests Are Surprisingly Resistant to Small Changes in Climate, Study Finds

    Aptly called, “Earth’s lungs,” the planet’s two largest swaths of rainforest, in Amazonia and Africa, suck up 15 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions produced by humans. These ecosystems are essential for carbon sequestration and therefore curbing climate change, and while the Amazon rainforest has been the subject of mountains of research, scientists are just […]