Climate Change
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Embracing Collapse : Jem Bendell on the value of accepting what is happening to our world -- Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff Jem Bendell Douglas Rushkoff Nov. 19, 2023 Here’s a short excerpt from this week’s episode of Team Human, a conversation with ecolibertarian and regenerative agriculture school ...
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Plants May Be Able To Absorb More CO2 From Human Activities Than Previously Expected -- Trinity College Dublin
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Trinity College Dublin Nov. 18, 2023 New research published in Science Advances paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet. Ecological modeling suggests ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning | Ramzy Baroud
NSW Fire and Rescue officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties in Australia in December 2019. (Photo: via AJE) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2021 Rome is scorching hot. This ...
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice | University of Chicago
Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 22, 2021 (Phys.org) -- Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, a group of scientists from the ...
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Strange Days Dawning | John Michael Greer
Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...
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