Climate Change

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Rainn Wilson has made the pivot from a “slacktivist” to a full-on fighter for a more sustainable future – and through his YouTube series “An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change,” “The Office” star hopes to inspire others to do the same. In the six-episode series, from his digital media company…

The coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity for a "giant reset" that can allow us to strengthen our efforts to tackle climate change, actor Rainn Wilson has told Sky News.Best known for playing Dwight Schrute in the US version of The Office, he has more recently become involved in climate activism.…

By Matthew Green LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The planet is showing signs it’s in peril. In recent weeks, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the U.S. West, torrential rains in Africa, weirdly warm temperatures on the surface of tropical oceans, and record heat waves from California to the…

Publishedduration1 day agomedia captionStonehaven derailment: Work to remove train carriages beginsNetwork Rail has admitted that the impact of climate change on its network "is an area that is accelerating faster than our assumptions".It said a fatal derailment near Stonehaven on 12 August showed that the industry must improve its response…

For the first time in U.S. history, a federal regulatory agency has put out a report recognizing climate change as a major threat to the economy. The report , which was commissioned by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and released on Wednesday, explains plainly that even if the world begins…

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Officials hope the federal money, aimed at rebuilding economies ravaged by Covid-19, will support clean energy and carbon-cutting programs. This story is part of a collaboration between The Nation and InsideClimate News as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The piece…

Tourist feeding a giraffe at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Credit: Michal Wisniowski A new UC Riverside study finds that climate change will have a devastating effect on the greater Palm Springs area's dominant industry: tourism. Thousands known as "snowbirds" flock to the region annually from elsewhere in the…

The only silver lining in India’s worst-ever quarterly GDP contraction was the agriculture sector. Between April and June, when the economy contracted by 23.9%, the sector posted a growth of 3.4%.But this silver lining could also fast fade off as the spectre of climate change haunts the agriculture sector. The…