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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar has fallen by 87 percent, and the cost of battery storage by 85 percent. Wind power, heat pumps and other fossil-free technologies are also experiencing a sharp drop in prices. A study now compares the ...

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Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life | Stanford University

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sept. 18 (Phys.org) -- The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many ...

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How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing

Francis Goodwin asks Bing: How to stop and reverse global warming? July 28, 2023 (Bing) -- Global warming is a serious threat to the planet and its inhabitants. It is caused by the accumulation of ...

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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown

Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s ...

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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney

Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...

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The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson

Justin Jackson -- Phys.org March 29, 2023 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional ...

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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown

Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other ...

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Scientists Recommend Checkpoints System To Help Guide Climate Engineering Research | Brookhaven National Laboratory

This graphic describes checkpoints and off ramps to guide research on marine cloud brightening as a proposed strategy for mitigating the impacts of climate change. Credit: NOAA Jan. 20, 2022 ...

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Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine | Ramzy Baroud

American business magnate Bill Gates (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Photo: video grab) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2021 Those who are not familiar with how Israel, ...

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A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past | Ellen Brown

Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage. Oct. 1, 2021 (Web of Debt) -- Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water ...

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The System Isn't Broken, It’s Fixed — Mickey Z.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust) Mickey Z. — World News Trust August 29, 2021 Both chronic stress and ...

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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe

Human-Driven Mass Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life | Stanford University

How To Stop And Reverse Global Warming | Bing

The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown

Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney

The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson

How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown

Scientists Recommend Checkpoints System To Help Guide Climate Engineering Research | Brookhaven National Laboratory

Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine | Ramzy Baroud

A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past | Ellen Brown

The System Isn't Broken, It’s Fixed — Mickey Z.

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