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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Gary Yohe and Eric Rignot
From 1900 to 2000, the ocean along the U.S. East Coast rose...
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Silent calamity: The health impacts of wildfire smoke
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson
Articles on U.S. wildfires don’t often show a photo of someone gasping in a hospital...
Sustainable production of soy and maize could ‘boost yields and cut emissions’ in China
Switching to more sustainable production of soy and maize could boost food security in the world’s most-populous country and simultaneously alleviate some of the...
Climate activists are raising the ‘Poo Flag’ to highlight sewage pollution
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Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion is raising the ‘Poo Flag’ in their #SeaChange campaign to highlight the raw sewage pollution in...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #24
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, June 7, 2021 through Sat, June 12, 2021
This week...
Spanish and Ukranian translations of The Debunking Handbook 2020
Since its publication last October, The Debunking Handbook 2020 has already been translated into 11 languages. Some of the translations have been created by volunteers...
Perfil Carbon Brief: México
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Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide ‘Nowcasts’
In Brief:
The upgraded interactive mapping tool can show you potential landslide activity anywhere between the poles in near-real-time.
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Climate Case Ireland call on Government to recognise environmental rights
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Climate Case Ireland have penned an open letter to the Irish Government calling for a Citizens’ Assembly on the biodiversity crisis...
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