The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the night of Dec. 10-11, 2021, was so unusual in its duration and strength, particularly for December, that a lot of people including the U.S. president are asking what role climate change might have played – and whether tornadoes will become more common in …
If you’re looking for evidence that the climate crisis is taking a toll, look no further than a new survey of Angelenos. Fifty-one percent of Los Angeles County residents avoided going outside at some point between summer 2020 and summer 2021 because of concerns about breathing wildfire smoke, the University of Southern California survey found. More than …
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Since carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere far longer than other greenhouse gases, driving climate change, efforts to reduce it are critical. On a global scale, plants sequester almost one-third of CO2 emissions through photosynthesis, according to new research led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Thus, forests and other similar ecosystems are some of the …
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Picture Credit: Twitter @JeffBezos Jeff Bezos announced $443 million in donations to climate organizations Monday as the world’s second-richest person ramps up his philanthropy. The most recent contributions are in addition to the $791 million he gave to 16 organizations last year as part of his $10 billion commitment to his Earth Fund to fight climate …
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The speeding up of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) could have wide-ranging consequences across the globe. The only ocean current that circumnavigates Earth is getting stronger and faster due to climate change, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In a paper published in the journal Nature Climate …
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