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Across the globe’s tropics right now, seven superstorms are swirling over oceans. Hurricane Florence is butting into the Carolinas on North America’s southeastern coast. Tropical storms Helene, Isaac, and Joyce …
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Just four counties in the flood-prone lower Cape Fear River basin house more than 30 million farm animals, which produce more than 40 billion pounds of animal waste annually, according …
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The global summit for climate change was held on Sept 13-14th in San Francisco, CA. Greeted by protestors, it was an auspicous multi-day event with representatives from around the globe, and …
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There is growing concern of the possibility of a link between earthquakes and intense weather. On September 6, 2018 a magnitude-6.6 quake struck the northern island of Hokkaido, Hokkaido is in northern Japan, …
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Two hundred of the world’s most prominent artists and scientists signed an open letter in French daily Le Monde on Monday calling for urgent political action to address the “global …
Read MoreYoung researcher Sarah-Jeanne Royer set out to measure methane gas coming from biological activity in sea water. Instead, in a “happy accident” she found that the plastic bottles holding the …
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In the recent months, we are seeing a fire season that is more out of control than Donald Trump. These are creating feedback loops which are acting as a multiplier …
Read MoreToday Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo introduced the Market Choice Act (co-sponsored by Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which would charge for carbon emissions from fuel combustion and large industrial sources. WRI …
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Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California on Friday, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians …
Read MoreBill passed by parliament means more than €300m shares in coal, oil, peat and gas will be sold ‘as soon as practicable’
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