This week’s Pacific Islands Forum is the region’s premier multilateral summit. But members have begun turning elsewhere out of frustration with Australia’s climate negotiation tactics.
Human climate change has shifted vegetation and wildlife upslope in Yosemite National Park.
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The National Park Service’s principal climate scientist explains why the parks are important laboratories for climate change research, and how climate change is altering the parks.
What does it mean to be a citizen in today’s world?
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Civic intelligence describes what happens when people work together to address problems efficiently and equitably. It could help address many societal challenges.
Overfishing can teach us valuable lessons about ecosystem resilience.
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Large-scale natural experiments such as oil spills, tsunamis and climate change are things you wouldn’t want to do on purpose. But that doesn’t mean they’re not scientifically useful experiments too.
Storm damage and a high tide in Adelaide.
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The first signs that humans were warming the climate appeared much earlier in the northern hemisphere - way back in the 1830s. But now the trend is emerging all over the globe.
Economic growth alone won’t end hunger. Good policies and programmes are needed, too. Scientists and researchers have a role to play in these initiatives.
A 2009 flood, worsened by a high tide, in Miami.
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A former state regulator and member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission argues that subsidizing reactors to keep them running is unnecessary and will be bad for consumers and the environment.
The FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego, New York will receive state subsidies to continue operating through 2029.
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A nuclear engineer makes the case that nuclear power plants are important resources and should receive economic rewards for providing steady supplies of carbon-free electricity.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has promised to ‘cancel’ or ‘renegotiate’ the Paris Agreement.
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