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Those Bathing Bears Aren’t Cute. They’re Climate Change Victims. Global Warming

Those Bathing Bears Aren’t Cute. They’re Climate Change Victims.

Climate has always been one of Lake Tahoe’s biggest selling points. Nevada is infamously inhospitable to everyone but Elvis impersonators, and California is always burning. But North America’s largest alpine lake, which straddles the line between the arid states, stays mild year-round. Its townies, tourists, and resident wildlife were unprepared…
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July 16, 2021
Global warming to reshape Australian shark and ray populations and raise extinction risk Global Warming

Global warming to reshape Australian shark and ray populations and raise extinction risk

July 12, 2021 As the current century progresses, the extinction risk for sharks, rays and chimaeras* is set to rise in southern Australia with warming waters exacerbating the impact of commercial fishing, new research has found. Southern sharks and their relatives are also likely to compete with and be ‘pushed…
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July 12, 2021
Western Heat Wave ‘Virtually Impossible’ without Climate Change Global Warming

Western Heat Wave ‘Virtually Impossible’ without Climate Change

The blistering heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last month would have been “virtually impossible” without the influence of climate change, scientists say. In fact, it was nearly impossible even with it. That’s according to a new study from World Weather Attribution, a climate research initiative that investigates the…
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July 8, 2021
How Carbon Capture Works Global Warming

How Carbon Capture Works

Imagine a scenario where an evil super-genius finds a way to suck all the oxygen out of the air, then buries it in the ground. Sounds like the stuff of comic books? Well, yes, if we're talking about oxygen. But scientists are working on a way to do just that…
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July 8, 2021
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem Global Warming

The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem

In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration’s much-hyped infrastructure package. Exxon, McCoy explained to an undercover reporter with the outlet in May, has targeted 11 senators—including several authors of the bipartisan…
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July 2, 2021