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‘Save your species’: United Nations uses dinosaur in fossil fuel message Global Warming

‘Save your species’: United Nations uses dinosaur in fossil fuel message

BERLIN — The United Nations is summoning an unusual “witness” to testify to the dangers of burning fossil fuels that stoke global warming: a dinosaur. In a video released on social media ahead of this year’s U.N. climate change summit, a computer-generated dinosaur bursts into the U.N.’s famous General Assembly…
bubmag
October 28, 2021
In Germany, global warming is changing more than just the climate. It’s changing politics, too. Global Warming

In Germany, global warming is changing more than just the climate. It’s changing politics, too.

AHRWEILER, Germany — Layers of dried mud on sidewalks, concrete roads turned to gravel and time-worn stone bridges washed away. Three months after this summer’s catastrophic floods in Germany’s Ahrweiler region, there are reminders everywhere of the destruction they wrought. The deluge, which was preceded by three consecutive summers of…
bubmag
October 24, 2021
Report: Plastic is on track to become a bigger climate problem than coal Global Warming

Report: Plastic is on track to become a bigger climate problem than coal

Plastic permeates the oceans, clutters landfills, and threatens to create a “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to researchers. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is also a major contributor to climate change. A new report from the advocacy group Beyond Plastics says that emissions from the plastic…
bubmag
October 23, 2021