Cuba Shows How to Take Action on Climate Change
By Helen Yaffee Cuba, a small island besieged by the United States, is taking concrete measures to reorient its economy in the fight against climate change. It’s an example that …
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Of Mousy & Elephantine Cycles, Managing The Climate Crisis After Glasgow COP26
By Dr. Rob Moir The word hypocrisy has been bandied about on the heels of the Glasgow Climate Pact, reached by unanimous consent of nearly 200 nations, as goals remain …
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RiceUNews: ‘Super Trees’ May Help Save Houston … and Beyond
Live oaks, sycamores top ranking of trees that mitigate effects of pollution, climate change It’s easy to say “just plant more trees” to mitigate air pollution. But how? Where? And …
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Island Conservationists Identify Key Barriers to Meeting Biodiversity Targets
Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots. The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate change are compounded in small island nations, which are highly …
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SEI Analysis Shows How COP26 Can Mobilise Loss & Damage Finance Right Away
Eight years after the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (WIM) was established, efforts to mobilise finance for countries facing catastrophic and unavoidable climate change impacts remain stalled. A new …
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Powerful Anti-Capitalist Speech by Greta Thunberg at Glasgow Climate Change Conference
By Mark L. Friedman 18-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke on Nov. 8 at the rally of 100,000 in Glasgow organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of …
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Cuba Under Immediate Threat From Climate Change
By Mark Friedman Cuba’s delegation to Cop26 tells DR LAUREN COLLINS about the island’s approach to adapting to the effects of global warming, the challenges it faces and its hopes …
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Global Network Takes Stock of Human Adaptation to Climate Change
U-Michigan News As society experiences increasingly frequent and severe natural hazard events and environmental stressors—while making little progress at reducing carbon emissions—the need to adapt to the changing climate has …
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet, Sea Ice Formation, and the Flow of The Gulf Stream
By Dr. Rob Moir Pummeled by rising sea levels, extreme weather events and increasing ocean acidity, headlines tell of climate change giving the ocean another punch. “A crucial system of …
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A Groundbreaking Survey of the World’s Reefs Reveals the Extent of the Coral Reef Crisis
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation publishes their findings from the Global Reef Expedition—the largest coral reef survey and mapping research mission in history After spending ten years assessing …
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