Scientists have first identified an active leakage of methane gas from the seabed in Antarctica, increasing the likelihood that the planet is near one of the “tipping points” that would put the impacts of global warming outside the control of humans. According to The Guardian, researchers led by Andrew Thurber …
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Read More »Red Sea Coral Heat Tolerance Offers Hope for Climate Crisis | Science
The scientists increased the heat above the lethal threshold and waited for the corals to die. “We were heating the water one degree above the maximum summer temperature,” says Anders Meibom, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. “At the Great Barrier Reef, after …
Read More »Student files first climate change lawsuit against Australian government
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A 23-year-old student filed a lawsuit against the Australian government, alleging that he had not disclosed the risks related to climate change to investors in the country’s sovereign bonds, in the first such action. FILE PHOTO: A lone tree stands near a water channel in a drought-stricken …
Read More »Factbox: How ‘green’ is the EU recovery agreement?
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders reached an agreement on Tuesday for a massive stimulus package that the European Commission says will make the fight against climate change central to Europe’s economic recovery from the pandemic of coronavirus. European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula Von Der …
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