Climate Change
Was the Kentucky tornado outbreak rooted in climate change?
December 13, 2021“More unpredictable weather can be expected countrywide as rising temperatures result in unseasonable--and unprecedented--weather patterns."
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Thousands without infrastructure after tornadoes kill dozens
December 13, 2021Residents of a Kentucky town devastated by a tornado could be without heat, water, and electricity in chilly temperatures for a long time.
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Ugandan environmental activist Vanessa Nakate: ‘We cannot adapt to extinction’
December 10, 2021“Many times, activists in Africa have been called missing voices. But we are not missing,” Nakate says. “We are present, we are available, we are just unheard.”
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Wildfires are obliterating Western forests, climate change is making it permanent
December 6, 2021“It’s already happening, it’s not just something we are modeling in the future."
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In Arctic, rain might replace snow decades sooner than previously thought
December 3, 2021Researchers called the implications, from melting permafrost to sea level rise, sped-up global heating and mass famine in the region’s reindeer and caribou populations, “profound.”
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