In a new survey of Australian residents researchers found that messages that focus on the local impacts of climate change are among the most effective at reaching people who are generally dismissive of […]
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Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet NASA’s Global Climate Change website provides evidence of a changing planet. Among the multiplicity of articles, graphics and multimedia is a series of revealing before-and-after pictures. Begun […]
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Consequences of Climate Change Climate change will have major consequences for transport networks, especially those located on coastlines. A study by Leeds University assessed the impact of projected sea level rise on a vulnerable […]
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The transformation of the energy system in Germany is a declared political goal of the federal government. By 2050, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by at least 80 percent under 1990 […]
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The Paris climate conference last December was seen to be a game-changer: an opportunity to start the process of tackling the challenges set by climate change on a global basis. All of the […]
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Myanmar Stoves Campaign is the newest SLOW LIFE Foundation project, which focuses on distributing cook stoves in Myanmar. It will be the first Gold Standard Certified carbon project in Myanmar. So far over 5,000 […]
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Earth Hour sweeps across twenty-four time zones and six continents on 28th March 8:30 PM local time Everyone’s talking climate change. Use #YourPower and take climate action now! Take your first step towards […]
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China has surpassed the US as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is responsible for around a quarter of global emissions, according to a new report from WWF-China, written by […]
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced its priorities for 2015 in a strategy paper that outlines goals for now until 2018. Specifically, it maintains that it “must continue our focus on urban, […]
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Deep-water fish living along the Irish-UK continental slope remove more than a million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year, according to a recent study. Continental slope ecosystems play an important role in […]
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