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How oil companies put the responsibility for climate change on consumers

October 13, 2023 admin

The political response to the climate crisis remains largely inadequate in the face of heat waves, hurricanes, floods and forest fires that are accelerating and intensifying. The political inertia can be explained, among other things, by the stranglehold of fossil fuel interests on political decision-makers, and the strong influence polluting industries have on the spheres of power in…

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Amazon’s Indigenous people urge Brazil to declare climate emergency as rivers dry up

October 12, 2023 admin

A person on a boat navigates on Puraquequara Lake, which has been affected by drought, in Manaus, Brazil, October 6, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Indigenous inhabitants in the Amazon are asking the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought…

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Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds

September 28, 2023 admin

Marine scientist Anna Sanchez Vidal shows microplastics collected from the sea with a microscope at Barcelona’s University, during a research project “Surfing for Science” to assess contamination by microplastics on the coastline, in Barcelona, Spain, July 5, 2022. (Image for Representation) | Photo Credit: Reuters Researchers in Japan have confirmed microplastics are present in clouds,…

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Muscle, wood, coal, oil: what earlier energy transitions tell us about renewables

September 26, 2023 admin

In 2022, the burning of fossil fuels provided 82% of the world’s energy. In 2000, it was 87%. Even as renewables have undergone tremendous growth, they’ve been offset by increased demand for energy. That’s why the United Nations earlier this month released a global stocktake – an assessment on how the world is going in weaning itself off these energy-dense but…

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Brazil strengthens climate goals, targets 48% lower emissions by 2025

September 22, 2023 admin

Brazil’s new climate change targets would be more ambitious than the United States, which has pledged to cut emissions by 50-52% by 2030. | Photo Credit: AP Brazil is expected to announce revised climate targets this week, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva strengthens a prior pledge made by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, government…

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Dozens of nations to sign U.N. ocean treaty but implementation still awaits

September 22, 2023 admin

The global pact to conserve biodiversity on the high seas is seen as a crucial tool to meet a target agreed last year to protect 30% of the earth’s land and sea by 2030. | Photo Credit: AP A new U.N. treaty to protect the world’s oceans was signed by 67 countries on Wednesday, another…

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Libya dam collapse: engineering expert raises questions about management

September 19, 2023 admin

Rescuers and relatives of victims set up tents in front of collapsed buildings in Derna, Libya, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Some 11,300 people died when two dams collapsed during Mediterranean storm Daniel last week sending a wall of water gushing through the city, according to the Red Crescent aid group. A further 10,000 people are…

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Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says

September 19, 2023 admin

A facility for capturing CO2 from air of Swiss Climeworks AG is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland July 18, 2017. Controversial technologies intended to offset the effects of atmospheric carbon should banned until properly assessed, a group of politicians and scientists have warned. | Photo Credit: Reuters Controversial…

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Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says

September 19, 2023 admin

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Special U.N. summit, protests, week of talk turn up heat on fossil fuels and global warming

September 16, 2023 admin

The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden. As a record-smashing and deadly hot summer draws to a close, the United Nations and the city that hosts it are focusing on climate change and the burning of coal, oil and natural gas that causes it….

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