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An online magazine offering reporting, analysis, and opinion on global environmental issues. Published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

New Haven, CT
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2009.

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    Recent climate models project that a doubling of CO2 above preindustrial levels could cause temps to soar far above prev estimates, ranging as high as 5.6 deg C. A warming earth will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet

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  2. Research has found that administering buyout “programs” are generally implemented by whiter, wealthier communities, who have the capacity to take on the process of conducting buyouts using FEMA funding and jumping through the bureaucratic hoops involved.

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  3. Germany currently generates one-third of its electricity from coal, and is also the world’s biggest producer of lignite, or brown coal, considered the dirtiest type of coal. The German government plans to phase out coal-fired power entirely by 2038.

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  4. Conservation groups said the proposed new regulation from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, would substantially weaken the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and put millions of birds in danger. reports:

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  5. But because the world’s mountain glaciers are melting so rapidly, they have been responsible for a disproportionate share of global sea level rise in recent decades. No mountain region has lost more ice, relative to its size, than the Andes.

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  6. “The real challenge is taking action that delivers major cuts in greenhouse gases, and that means rewiring the incentives for key governments and corporations to change behavior and start decarbonizing the global economy.” David Victor, writes:

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  7. About 700 PFAS-contaminated sites have been identified across the US while those exposed to enough chemicals can face devastating health consequences. reports:

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  8. An ocean heat wave off the U.S. West Coast from 2014 to 2016 drove humpback whales into a narrow band of cooler water, leading to a dramatic increase in whale entanglements with crab-fishing gear, according to a new study.

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  9. Scientists have found a link between a heightened risk of flu and rapid weather swings that have become increasingly common in recent years due to climate change, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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  10. Warming temperatures also have caused glaciers to swiftly recede, particularly in the southern Andes, where some glaciers have retreated 5.5 miles in the past century. 98% of Andean glaciers have shrunk this century.

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  11. “Leaders need to channel political energy from the growing public concern about climate change into policies aimed at changing the incentives to test and deploy new technologies.” David Victor from writes in an opinion piece:

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  12. The German government introduced a major climate package last year, which included carbon pricing and a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The green energy sector already employs some 250,000 people in Germany.

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  13. “But the Llano is an abused river, as Neiman showed me. It’s public property taken advantage of by private business and landowners through ambiguous environmental protections. And these damages are often unseen by the public.” :

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  14. “We are still fueling our growth in population and affluence by the extraction of virgin materials. We can’t do this indefinitely — our hunger for virgin material needs to be halted.” Republished from and :

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  15. “It’s completely irrational that geothermal is so underused. The technology’s there, and economies of scale will follow quickly. Unlike wind and solar, geothermal provides both heat and cooling, as well as baseload power generation, and does so 24/7.”

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  16. “...the current scale and pace of buyouts leaves an enormous gap between what FEMA’s current programs can realistically support and the number of people likely to want and need a buyout in order to relocate to safer areas.” writes:

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  17. Some scientists point out that climate-displaced species may be as ecologically novel in their new habitats as trade-dispersed aliens and could be just as disruptive to ecosystems, economies, and cultures as traditionally defined alien species.

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  18. A study found that nearly half of nesting loggerheads from Cyprus go to the Tunisian Plateau to feed. The region has some of the highest turtle accidental catches by humans in the world.

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  19. In addition to its climate impacts, petrochemical production, which is increasingly including plastic, can release airborne toxins such as 1,3-Butadiene, benzene, and toluene, causing cancer and other illnesses.

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  20. A recent study said that after 60 years of regrowth, the secondary Amazon forests studied by researchers stored only 40% as much carbon as undisturbed woodlands and only 50% as much biodiversity.

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