What we learn from the coronavirus, we can apply to sustainability
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Can someone ELI5 arctic tipping points or how close we are to runaway climate change?
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in...
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane.
from this article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arctic_ocean_ice_disappears_global_climate_impacts_intensify_wadhams
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Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone
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Planet of the Humans
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Google's data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
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‘Human beings have overrun the world’: David Attenborough calls for an end to waste in impassioned plea to address climate change
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Crops at risk as coronavirus lockdown grounds bees
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Fairytales of Growth
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Even garbage is under threat from the coronavirus' impact on the economy
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Eleven percent rise in threatened Swedish species over the past five years, according to the latest report from SLU, the Swedish Species Information Centre
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Norway and the a-ha moment that made electric cars the answer – a country fuelled by hydropower has become the world's electric vehicle leader
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A mysterious lawsuit tries to sink Seaside’s massive plans for growth
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International Bat Appreciation Day
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When is a dove a Kiwi? Record-setting bird blown from Australia to a petroleum processing ship off the coast of New Zealand killed by New Zealand authorities on arrival
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These four startups are redefining sustainability
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Amid coronavirus shutdown, wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
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Three companies succeeding in sustainability... from very different sectors of the economy
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Sweden's climate solution is now the Sámi people's problem – winters are becoming warmer and climate change is making conditions for the reindeer unsafe
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Just around the corner: Sustainability developments to give you hope
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98% of all animal species on Earth have a PR problem. That’s bad news for everyone. [Warning: insect images]
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Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year
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Cultivating biodiversity at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Seed sellers across North America have been overwhelmed by skyrocketing demand in recent weeks
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than one out of ten
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CropScape - US Department of Agriculture map of commercial crops
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Essays, photos, and discussion about prairie ecology, restoration, and management
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The right is using COVID-19 to wage war on reusable grocery bags
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US Environmental Protection Agency, citing coronavirus, drastically relaxes rules for polluters
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How long do we have left, exactly, until climate change affects our global food supply?
I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff. How long do we have left, like, 10-15 years at the most?
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Norway is postponing a decision on whether to allow companies to construct a new subsea power cable between it and Scotland
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Groundwater expert Dr. John Cherry wins 2020 Stockholm Water Prize – his research has raised awareness of how groundwater contamination is growing across the world
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The Everyday Astronaut goes into great detail on the topic of: Are rockets terrible for our air? How much do they pollute?
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You can socially distance for free at national parks, but should you?
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Hundreds of ravenous wild monkeys terrorise Thai city in search of food after coronavirus drives tourists away
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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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Oil’s plunge is an existential threat to a far cleaner biofuel
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Venice's canal water looks clearer as coronavirus keeps visitors away
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The strange and dangerous world of America’s big cat people
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A UN locust forecaster explains the crisis in East Africa
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Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
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Greenland glacier collapse – a new study combining historical photos with evidence from ocean sediments suggests climate change was already at work in the 1930s
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Why we panic about the coronavirus but not about the climate crisis
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Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later
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Why are we so slow today?
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'Huge revolution coming': Ditching plastic wrap for compostable wrap
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Greta Thunberg calls for digital strikes amid coronavirus fears – urging fellow climate campaigners to avoid mass protests and listen to local authorities
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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