Photo Credit: They’re not the ones making it harder to act on climate change. Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe The real obstacles to addressing greenhouse gas emissions are not the politicians, the billionaires or even the oil companies. The real obstacles are the voters themselves. Ours is a populist age, dominated not only by the anti-elitist …
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Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways, a major UN scientific report has said. The landmark study warns of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding, and a key temperature limit being broken in just over a decade. The report “is a code red for humanity”, says the UN chief. But …
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Scientists call for new climate models to challenge the assumption that wealthy countries can grow indefinitely. Picture: Tubular bioreactors filled with green algae fixing CO2, Arcos de la Frontera, Cadiz, Costa de la Luz, Andalusia, Spain. Credit: Santiago Urquijo/Getty Images. An international team of scientists says that we cannot rely on technology to meet climate …
These can become dangerous to human health when ocean chemistry and temperature, and other marine ecosystem dynamics, are altered, which can lead to shellfish poisoning, mercury exposure and poisoning and other illnesses. Climate change will alter the distribution and severity of pollutants. umans have a deep and complex relationship with the sea. It provides food …
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Playing a part in protecting the environment can also come down to how you manage your finance (Photo: Getty) Sustainable investing has become one of the most important shifts in the investment industry in a generation, says Myron Jobson, a personal finance campaigner at Interactive Investor ‘Green’ concerns from plastic waste to carbon emissions are at the …
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