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The imperative to keep a roof over our head keeps us wedded to economic growth. If we want to halt climate change, we need another way
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Australia could grab a huge chunk of the world’s steel industry, and do it on the east coast, if it gets the technologies right.
Clear skies over Los Angeles, April 17, 2020.
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From Nairobi to Los Angeles, pandemic lockdowns have cleared pollution from the skies. But those blue vistas may be temporary, and shutdowns aren’t slowing climate change.
Greta Thunberg talks with Professor Johan Rockström about the coronavirus and the environment at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, April 21 2020.
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During the pandemic, climate activists are thinking globally and acting digitally.
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Climate action is a vital protection against further global shocks, especially as governments plan their post-pandemic stimulus packages.
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New study is a brilliant thought experiment, despite focus on an unrealistic worst case climate change scenario.
Wind turbines in the first rays of sunlight at the Saddleback Ridge Wind Project in Carthage, Maine, March 20, 2019.
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How should the United States power its economy in 2050? A recent survey finds surprising agreement from Americans of all political stripes.
Welsh mountain sheep face an uncertain future.
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Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.
A farm in Stowe, Alta. Can Canadian agricultural producers lead the way on climate action?
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The Canadian dialogue on agriculture’s role in climate change is murky. Its time to be more clear and vocal on where challenges and opportunities lie.
A climate action march in London, February 2020, before the onset of lockdown.
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By self-isolating, people all over the world are acting for the collective good. That’s encouraging for tackling climate change.
During coronavirus lockdowns, gardens have served as an escape from feelings of alienation.
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What drives people to garden isn’t the fear of hunger so much as hunger for physical contact – and a longing to engage in work that is real.
When deadly tornadoes struck the Southeast in April, residents in Prentiss, Mississippi, struggled to keep up coronavirus precautions while salvaging what they could from their damaged properties.
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If the forecasts are right, the US could be facing more natural disasters this year – on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Local governments aren’t prepared.
Harmful algal bloom in Lake Erie, Sept. 4, 2009.
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Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities’ drinking water. The solution: Cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff.
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Plants take carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, but it goes straight back when they die or are harvested. There is an important difference between carbon fluxes and actual carbon sequestration.
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Cold-water plankton is being replaced by warm-water species.
Business closures and recent rain contribute to Los Angeles’ recent uptick in air quality.
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The response to COVID-19 suggests how we can leverage entrepreneurial approaches to climate change.
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Stay connected and engaged to the climate change cause, and you might find we emerge from the coronavirus crisis with more hope than before.
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The disasters have come one after another. While they may not be entirely preventable, we can take many practical steps tailored to local needs and conditions to reduce the impacts on our cities.
Our lives have been disrupted and impacted in unprecedented ways by the measures put in place to address the current pandemic.
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When the things we consider to be normal break down, outcomes that once seemed unlikely or extraordinary become possible.
A fire burns in Squamish, B.C. on April 16, 2020.
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Unstable funding, social distancing and the likelihood that other countries won’t be able to help — these all raise the potential of a nightmarish scenario.