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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New research has found that rainfall will be more widespread in the Arctic by 2100 if climate change isn’t checked. This will have huge implications for the planet. Probably the most important environment on Earth with regards to gauging the impacts of climate change is the Arctic. It is the region where the effects of …
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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast. In a recent episode, he spoke with two professors at the Institute of New Economics at Oxford University. There are many flaws in the way we discuss the problems of, and solutions to, climate change. For decades, our conversation about …
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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As was pointed out in a Nov. 21 letter to the editor, Earth has been warmer than it is now, so how is the current warming any different? The past warmings were caused by either well-understood variations in Earth’s orbit around the Sun and/or wobbles in Earth’s tilt, or by emissions of carbon dioxide and …
