What Is Nitrous Oxide and Why Is It a Climate Threat?
WEBSep 11, 2019 — The majority of nitrous oxide comes from agriculture, including microbes in fertilized soils and animal manure. It is a potent greenhouse gas with about 300 times the heat-trapping power of carbon ...
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WEBA Thousand Lives Lost, and Millions Disrupted, by Flooding in Western Africa The city of Maiduguri, in Nigeria, had been drought-stricken. Then the rains, amplified by climate change, began and ...
The Era of Climate Migration Is Here, Leaders of Vulnerable …
WEBSep 21, 2023 — Heads of climate-vulnerable nations gathered on the sidelines of a United Nations climate summit to call for new policies and agreements to manage the millions of people who are being forced from ...
Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges …
WEBNov 21, 2021 — Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People Oil companies have replaced Indigenous people’s traditional lands with mines that cover an area ...
To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel …
WEBSep 8, 2021 — To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground A new study in Nature reports that oil, gas and coal production must begin falling immediately to have ...
Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape …
WEBFeb 25, 2021 — Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic The change in the main ocean heat pump could bring more heat waves to Europe, increase sea level ...
A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the …
WEBMay 4, 2021 — A New Book Feeds Climate Doubters, but Scientists Say the Conclusions are Misleading and Out of Date Steven Koonin, who during Trump’s presidency proposed having a “red team, blue team ...
How Should We Think About the End of the World as We Know it?
WEBNov 19, 2022 — In the 14th century, the Italian poet Petrarch wrote a letter to a friend in Avignon, describing his sense of “foreboding” after an earthquake shook the foundations of Rome’s churches ...
Thawing Permafrost has Damaged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and …
WEBJul 11, 2021 — Thawing permafrost threatens to undermine the supports holding up an elevated section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, jeopardizing the structural integrity of one of the world’s largest oil ...
New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to …
WEBJun 25, 2021 — New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise Some residents are wary of the $1.45 billion system of seawalls and floodgates ...