Environmental taxes encourage consumers to conserve energy or switch to less carbon-intensive fuels.
The Korle Gono beach in Accra covered in plastic bottles and other items washed ashore following weeks of heavy flooding in 2016.
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States are folding the social and economic costs of burning fossil fuels into their electricity policies, giving utilities a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Project Oceanology class retrieves a bottom trawl at the mouth of the Thames River.
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For decades, New England students took field trips out into the Long Island Sound. Their data show how quickly the sound is warming, leading to fewer American lobster, rock crab and winter flounder.
A Shorten government would consult with industry and experts on baselines for individual entities and the timing of reduction.
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Labor would aim for a new threshold under a revamp of the existing safeguards mechanism of 25,000 tonnes of direct CO2 pollution annually, which would be phased in after consultation with industry.
Historic flooding in the Midwest, including this farm in Nebraska, has caused widespread damage.
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A climatologist who studies precipitation trends explains how climate change is projected to make flooding events in the Midwest more severe and more frequent.
The dry Kluane Lake in Yukon Territory.
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The planet’s wealthiest people are directly responsible for most of the world’s carbon emissions.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has warned that afforestation is a risky approach to combatting climate change.
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A new report suggests New Zealand should rethink climate policy and use forests to offset only agricultural emissions, which make up half of the country’s total emissions, and not carbon dioxide.
How do people respond to media coverage of weather influenced by climate change?
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Media reports are starting to directly connect climate change to its weather effects in local communities. But how you respond to those linkages depends on what you already think about climate change.
These photovoltaics panels provide this village with energy now, but they could become obsolete when the main grid arrives.
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Small-scale renewable energy projects can power rural areas not connected to the main grid. But investors may hesitate if future electrification remains unpredictable.
As climate change threatens Australian trees, it’s important to identify which are at risk.
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The Earth’s past shows the key role of CO₂ on climate for 4.45 billion years, and how human industrial activity has disrupted its cycle at an unprecedented rate over the past 160 years.
Devastation in Sofala Province, central Mozambique.
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