They ‘engulf living prey, suck out their innards, poison them, harpoon them, make them explode, and steal and reuse body parts’. And we ignore them at our peril.
Do you see the future the same way as Leonardo?
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate documentary is an urgent call for the promised green tech revolution. But it shows too much faith in politicians and corporations to change their ways.
Efforts to combat climate change are making extracting oil from areas like Canada’s tar sands fields more expensive.
Emily Beament/PA Wire via AP
The SEC and others are pressing Exxon to disclose more climate change risks to investors. But new research suggests shareholders are already pricing in those costs on their own.
Karin Limburg, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Warming waters due to climate change are losing oxygen, threatening the health of fish and ecosystems.
When New South Wales burned in 2013, Tony Abbott was quick to point out that individual events can’t be attributed to climate change. But they can.
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The science of attributing extreme weather events to human-induced climate change has evolved rapidly in recent years. But how we communicate it to the public has not kept pace with this advance.
Sea turtles have been around for 150 million years, but today’s pace of climate change represents an existential challenge.
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Climate change and tourism development in Mexico are altering the country’s shoreline, endangering the habitat of sea turtles. But tourists prefer pristine, natural beaches, too.
Bleached corals are still alive, but they are starving, and often die in the following weeks.
Greg Torda
The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia’s rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines - and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.