Global Warming

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There are an estimated 24 million people who identify as LGBTQ in America—a likely undercount, as more and more people grow comfortable embracing themselves. And yet, despite that progress, Republicans like Minnesota state Senator Eric Lucero are working overtime to turn back the clock. “GLOBAL WARMING,” Lucero began in a…

Slabs of chicken meat grown from cells nurtured by scientists, rather than from birds raised and slaughtered by farmers, can now be sold in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture greenlit two kinds of lab-grown chicken for the first time on Wednesday. The move makes the United States…

NEW YORK – Over the last few years, an ecosystem of climate pledges, groups and models has expanded on Wall Street in a bid to cut – or appear to cut – the financial industry’s role in global warming. But many of those efforts have had a limited impact on…

The greatest terrestrial carbon supplier to the atmosphere, carbon efflux from soils is nevertheless one of the Earth’s carbon budget’s least predictable fluxes. A dominant component of this flux is heterotrophic respiration- a process in which CO2 is released into the atmosphere- influenced by several environmental factors, notably soil temperature…

A report from a Nepal-based research organization finds that water security for nearly 2 billion people downstream from the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges will likely be threatened this century if global warming is not controlled. The study by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development found that Himalayan glaciers disappeared…

Updated June 20, 2023 at 9:42 AM Published June 20, 2023 at 8:45 AM BRUSSELS – Europe had the warmest summer on record in 2022, contributing to thousands of deaths, marine heatwaves and extreme weather, an analysis has found. The continent warmed to 2.3 deg C above the pre-industrial average in…

ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press May 14, 2023Updated: May 17, 2023 8:07 a.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of9FILE - U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the U.S. Consulate General after the G-7 ministers' meeting on…

Canada has already gotten less extreme cold, longer growing seasons, shorter snow and ice cover seasons, earlier spring peak streamflow, thinning glaciers, thawing permafrost, and rising sea level. The annual average temperature in Canada has increased at roughly twice the global mean rate. Patterns are different across regions of the…

Cultivated meat – whereby meat is produced from animal cells using a combination of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology and synthetic processes – is thought to be a more environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional meat production. Indeed, much food is considered more environmentally sustainable than intensively produced meat, such as…