Flooded streets in LaPlace, La., on Monday.Credit…Emily Kask for The New York Times Hurricane Ida intensified overnight, becoming a Category 4 storm over the course of just a few hours. The rapid increase in strength raises questions about how much climate change is affecting hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. While researchers can’t say for sure …
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Picture: Lauryn Bloodworth, president and founder of Code Green / image: Courtesy of Code Green With the internet at the ready of their fingertips, today’s teenagers are more knowledgeable than we ever were, but they also have more concerns. One of them is the impact that we as humans are making on the environment and …
Arunachal’s annual mean temperature has risen by 0.05 degree Celcius each year in the past 40 years, resulting in total increase of 0.59 degree Celcius in temperature. (HT Photo) Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu said that since the state is part of the Himalayas and has one of the largest forest cover among all, …
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Picture Credit: The Plant Based Treaty (along with the Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty) provide a logical pathway to the solutions needed now. The IPCC report said there is a slim chance of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and there is an urgent need to limit fossil fuels and deforestation. Findings of the …
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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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