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Climate Crisis Tipping Points Are Now Imminent, Scientists Warn

Climate Crisis Tipping Points Are Now Imminent, Scientists Warn

Thousands of scientists reiterated calls for immediate action over the climate crisis in an article published Wednesday in the journal BioScience. “The extreme climate events and patterns that we’ve witnessed over the last several years — not to mention the last several weeks — highlight the heightened urgency with which we must address the climate […]

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    6 Cities at Risk of Chronic Flooding

    6 Cities at Risk of Chronic Flooding

    By Anne-Sophie Brändlin Some of the world’s great coastal cities could be severely inundated by 2050 as a result of global warming. Extreme floods that used to occur once a century could start hitting some cities every year. 1. Shanghai (China) Ninety-three million people currently live on land in China that could be inundated by […]

    The Maldives Is Building a Floating City

    The Maldives Is Building a Floating City

    By Natalie Marchant The waterfront residences will float on a flexible grid across a 200-hectare lagoon. Such innovative developments could prove vital in helping atoll nations, such as the Maldives, fight the impact of climate change. Dutch company is also testing the technology in the Netherlands. The atoll nation of Maldives is creating an innovative […]

    World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica

    World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks off From Antarctica

    A massive chunk of ice broke off of Antarctica this month, and it is now the largest iceberg in the world. The iceberg, known as A-76, was first spotted by a British Antarctic Survey researcher May 13. It was then confirmed by the U.S. National Ice Center (USNIC) the next day using images from the […]

    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 […]

    Delaying Climate Action Harms Youth, German High Court Rules in ‘Huge Win for the Climate Movement’

    Delaying Climate Action Harms Youth, German High Court Rules in ‘Huge Win for the Climate Movement’

    Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that the country’s 2019 climate law unconstitutionally saddles young people with the burden of fighting climate change by “irreversibly offload[ing] major emission reductions burdens onto periods after 2030.” Olaf Scholz, Germany’s finance minister, said the government would rapidly propose legislation to comply with the ruling. The case was brought by […]

    ‘We Need to Act Now’: Glaciers Melting at Unprecedented Pace, Study Reveals

    ‘We Need to Act Now’: Glaciers Melting at Unprecedented Pace, Study Reveals

    By Brett Wilkins Researchers warned of the need for urgent climate action as a study published Wednesday revealed that the world’s mountain glaciers are melting at an unprecedented pace, with glacial thinning rates outside Antarctica and Greenland doubling this century. For the first time ever, researchers analyzed three-dimensional satellite measurements of the world’s approximately 220,000 […]

    Climate Change in Florida Is Forcing a Response From Republican Politicians

    Climate Change in Florida Is Forcing a Response From Republican Politicians

    By Elizabeth Djinis Florida has long been known as an environmental contradiction. It’s mostly a peninsula at risk from the severe impacts of climate change, including rising seas, warming temperatures, and worsening extreme-weather events; yet it’s also a state governed by Republican leaders who have refused to even publicly utter the words “climate change.” When […]