China Reveals Electric Plasma Jet Engine To Solve Climate Change. Imagine a gleaming futuristic airliner flying around the world, fuelled solely by clean energy and fresh air. That is the grand vision of a new generation of jet thrusters that is causing a lot of buzz in engineering labs all over the world. Is this…
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As CBS News’ Mola Lenghi reports, drought conditions in the Western U.S. are historic and point to what could be a catastrophic wildfire season.
Climate change status quo and scenarios. Speaker: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Director Emeritus Date: March 2021 Location: Berlin
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ABC News’ Zohreen Shah reports on climate change fueling dire drought conditions in California, drying up reservoirs critical to California residents.
NBC LX’s Noah Pransky joins ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to discuss the GOP and climate change as some conservative politicians join those dedicated to passing clean energy legislation.
World leaders are in England for the annual G7 summit. One of the big issues being discussed at the summit will be climate change. The United Kingdom government wants to see deep cuts in carbon emissions, and big spending on technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere. From Plymouth, Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports on…
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Climate change is causing Canadian lakes to lose oxygen at a much faster rate than the world’s oceans.
Secretary-General António Guterres offered a stark warning on climate change ahead of the G7 Summit. He tells NBC News’ Anne Thompson that this is “the make-it-or-break-it year” for action. António Guterres on the climate crisis: ‘We are coming to a point of no return’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/11/antonio-guterres-interview-climate-crisis-pandemic-g7
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World leaders attended a dinner hosted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during the G-7 summit. Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales used the occasion to urge them to tackle climate change with the same energy that they mobilized against the coronavirus pandemic.
The Berlin Senate decided on tuesday to ban gasoline powered vehicles from the city center, in the next years – but before 2030. Berlin senator Regine Guenther further announced that in a second step, the so called Zero-Emission-Zone will be extended to the entire city. Along with this shift to greener transportation technologies, it is…
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The study, “Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming” by Nico Wunderling, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, and Ricarda Winkelmann from the Potsdam Institute finds potential severe consequences from continued climate change. The Guardian has a study breakdown, which can be accessed here. Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C…
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By Harold R. Wanless, professor of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami, published by EOS. The climate emergency is bigger than many experts, elected officials, and activists realize. Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions have overheated the Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing punishing heat waves, hurricanes, and other extreme weather—that much is widely understood. The larger problem is…
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