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Cities Scramble for Trees That Can Adapt to a Changing Climate – Mother Jones

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A researcher from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew bends over his notes while hunting for beech acorns in Romania.Thomas Freeth / Courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard. 

Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or

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How ocean carbon dioxide removal could slow climate change

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The ocean is Earth’s climate hero.

For decades, ocean waters have helped hold back the juggernaut of global warming, absorbing at least a third of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activities since the Industrial Revolution began.

Now, the world may ask the ocean to do even more. That would require tinkering with the chemistry and biology of the ocean to increase how much carbon it takes up.

Such an approach is worth considering because the window for limiting warming

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Lithium Isn’t a Climate Change Quick Fix

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April 1, 2024

Why the “White Gold Rush” will not save this planet.

A nozzle pumps gasoline into a vehicle at a gas station in Los Angeles, Calif. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty)

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With his perfect tan and slicked-back hair, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood at a podium at Sacramento’s Cal Expo

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America’s Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting

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As my airplane flew low over the flatlands of western Michigan on a dreary December afternoon, sunbursts splintered the soot-toned clouds and made mirrors out of the flooded fields below. There was plenty of rain in this part of the Rust Belt—sometimes too much. Past the endless acres, I could make out the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, then soon, in the other direction, the Detroit River, Lakes Huron and Erie, and southern Canada. In a world running short on

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Climate change is ‘off the charts’: Damning report reveals how records were smashed for greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea level rise in 2023 – and scientists warn ‘changes are speeding up’

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Climate change is ‘off the charts’ and presents a ‘defining challenge’ to humanity, a damning new report warns today.   

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says several climate records were broken and in some cases ‘smashed’ last year.

Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rises, and Antarctic ice loss all escalating in 2023 due to fossil fuel emissions. 

‘Sirens are blaring across all major indicators,’ said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. 

‘Some records aren’t just chart-topping,

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„Climate Reality Check“ misst die genaue Darstellung des Klimawandels in Filmen und Fernsehsendungen

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Eine neue Studie verlangt von der Unterhaltungsindustrie, dass sie mit einem ordnungsgemäßen „Realitätscheck“ anerkennt, dass „der Klimawandel unsere Realität ist“.

„Es geschieht hier und jetzt, nicht anderswo oder in der Zukunft. Es berührt jeden Aspekt des Lebens. Aber diese Realität fehlt in unseren Geschichten auf dem Bildschirm immer noch weitgehend“, heißt es in der Studie. „Der Climate Reality Check ist ein einfaches Tool zur Bewertung, ob unsere Klimarealität in Filmen, Fernsehsendungen und anderen Erzählungen dargestellt wird. Er ist vom Bechdel-Wallace-Test

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Hydropower Won’t Stop the Climate Crisis—It Might Make It Worse

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We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth’s fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality. More than half of the world’s lakes and two-thirds of its rivers are drying up, threatening ecosystems, farmland, and drinking water supplies. Such diminishing resources are also likely to lead to conflict and … Read more

Here’s How Ski Resorts Are Adapting to Climate Change – Mother Jones

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Trudging across the top of Bromley Mountain Ski Resort on a sunny afternoon in January, Matt Folts checks his smartwatch and smiles: 14 degrees Fahrenheit. That is very nearly his favorite temperature for making snow. It’s cold enough for water to quickly crystallize, but not so cold that his hourslong shifts on the mountain are miserable.

Folts is the head

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I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors

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“The world does not end at 2 degrees C,” Bill Gates told the British podcast The Rest Is Politics in an episode that aired in January. Gates, one of the strongest and earliest supporters of tech as a tool to address the climate crisis, has spoken before about his belief that we’ll blow past 1.5 degrees—but his more recent assertions that 2 degrees C is unavoidable took many by surprise. 

“There’s no stopping us passing 2C,” he said. “In temperate … Read more

Like ‘Em or Not, Climate Defiance Is Determined To Get In Your Face – Mother Jones

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Climate Defiance’s first big action was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2023. Courtesy Climate Defiance

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The Wellesley Rotary Club was having a perfectly ordinary country club dinner on Thursday, Jan. 25, until about 18 climate activists hopped on stage and started talking about fossil fuels.

“Brian Moynihan is one of the top five funders of fossil fuels

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