SELF-DRIVING CARS AS A DRIVER OF CARBON EMISSIONS
If self-driving cars are widely adopted, their emissions will rival those generated by all the data centers in the world[…]
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Category: BUMMER
OPEN WATER, BARE GROUND
Photo: Spy Pond The 99 acre glacial lake in Massachusetts that I face has no ice on it currently despite[…]
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MORE GREENLAND GRIEF
There’s now clear evidence that effects of global warming have reached the remote, high-elevation areas of central-north Greenland. The years[…]
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TWO OUT OF THREE GLACIERS GONE BY 2100?
The world could lose as much as 41% of its total glacier mass this century, or as little as 26%,[…]
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CLIMATE CHANGE TEXTBOOK CONTENT
U.S. university biology textbooks published in the 2010s contained less climate change content than those published in the 2000s. Passages[…]
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MADNESS IN MOVEMENT
Americans are leaving many of the U.S. counties hit hardest by hurricanes and heatwaves, and moving towards dangerous wildfires and[…]
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PERILOUS TIPPING POINTS
Photo: Antarctica Temporarily overshooting the climate targets of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius could increase the tipping risk of several Earth system[…]
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CHOCOLATE LOVERS TAKE NOTE (ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE)
Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa exporter, has lost most of its tropical forests in the last half century. Between[…]
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AWFUL ALUMINUM ATTRIBUTES
The PFC (synthetic, fluorine-containing chemicals) byproducts of aluminum production, are among the most potent and longest-lasting greenhouse gases by far. […]
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KEYSTONE PIPELINE, A POTENTIAL KILLER
Photo: Keystone spill With its latest leak of nearly 600,000 gallons into a northern Kansas creek (part of a watershed[…]
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