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The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

A new strategy for western states to adapt to long-term drought: Customized water pricing

Even after heavy snow and rainfall in January, western states still face an ongoing drought risk that is likely to grow worse thanks to climate change. A whopping snowpack is good news, but it doesn’t reduce the need for long-term planning.

The Conversation

Why your company may soon be hiring an 'ESG controller'

Some major companies are hiring for the position to meet climate change disclosure requirements.

Fortune

Skiers seek climate change moves: 'The seasons have shifted'

Overall World Cup winners Mikaela Shiffrin, Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde are among nearly 200 athletes from multiple disciplines who have signed a letter addressed to the International Ski and Snowboard Federation demanding action over climate change

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Harnessing wider benefits of eco-tourism

Already suffering from severe coastal erosion and tidal floods, coastal communities such as Bang Khun Thian district are pursuing an eco-tourism development campaign as a way to counter these threats from climate change.

Bangkok Post

Flood warning: NZ's critical infrastructure is too important to fail – greater resilience is urgently needed

Flooded roads, our largest international airport underwater, overwhelmed storm water systems and significant sewage discharge into the sea and streams. The recent floods and then cyclone in Auckland are a stark reminder that our basic infrastructure lacks the resilience needed to survive major weather events.

The Conversation

Biden, Brazil’s Lula vow relationship reboot at White House meet

Leaders promise to work together on climate change, democracy, despite disagreements over Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Bureau of Meteorology considering change to El Niño and La Niña definitions

The Bureau of Meteorology is in discussions with international atmospheric agencies to overhaul how La Niña and El Niño are defined, potentially rewriting the record books of global weather history.

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Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

WEKU

Where's the snow? Climate change affects ski racing season

Mother Nature and global warming are having just as much to say about when and where to hold ski races these days as the International Ski and Snowboard Federation

The Independent UK

Scientists Proposed a Massive Moon Dust Shield to Combat Climate Change. Could It Really Work?

Solar radiation management, the process of modifying the amount of sunlight that warms the Earth, has been an ongoing topic of early-stage scientific investigation and debate.

Inverse

Can clouds of Moon dust combat climate change?

A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth.

The Conversation

Yellen wants bolder World Bank steps on climate change, global issues

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged the World Bank to map out "bolder and more imaginative" steps on Thursday to address global challenges such as climate change even as it continues to aid individual developing countries.

Reuters

Most disaster giving goes to relief efforts, not rebuilding

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated a long-running pattern in giving by foundations and charities for health and natural disasters, a new Chronicle analysis of nine years of data show

The Independent UK

Why taxing cow burps isn’t the best climate solution

New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is proposing a tax on cow burps. The reason seems simple enough: Cows release methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and New Zealand has a goal of reaching net-zero emissions by midcentury. Right now, the country’s effects on…

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Daily Record

New Biodiversity Action Plan confirmed by North Lanarkshire Council

Following a public consultation, the council’s Environment and Climate Change Committee has approved the action plan for 2023 to 2027.

Tribune News Service

In Atlanta, Harris focuses on climate change in touting Biden agenda

ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris peered out into the crowd of students at Georgia Tech on Wednesday after roughly 30 minutes of policy-heavy discussion about climate change and atmospheric science and couldn’t help cracking a joke about rising temperatures.

The Conversation

Tanya Plibersek killed off Clive Palmer's coal mine. It's an Australian first – but it may never happen again

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has formally rejected mining magnate Clive Palmer’s proposed Central Queensland Coal Project. Her decision was based on the risk of damage to the Great Barrier Reef, freshwater creeks and groundwater.

The Guardian - AU

Fossil fuel companies won’t save us from climate change. We need governments to step up

The fallout when the industry fails to act is still smaller than the rewards for pumping out more pollution

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Bangkok Post

Climate-driven consumer trends

Almost 99% of the 15,000 global early technology adopters surveyed by Ericsson say they expect to be proactively using internet and connectivity-based solutions by 2030 to personally address the impact of climate change and global warming.

The Conversation

The coal whack-a-mole: getting rid of coal power will make prices fall and demand rise elsewhere

The fight against climate change is full of inconvenient truths. The latest? Coal is going to be harder to get rid of than we had hoped. Every victory like the rejection of Clive Palmer’s proposed Rockhampton coal mine seems to be offset by coal’s gains elsewhere.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: ChatGPT is in the world, and defying expectations and regulations

Everybody is having a lot of fun at the moment playing with ChatGPT – asking it to explain itself and say whether it’s going to take our jobs.

Al Jazeera

Q&A: Colorado River crisis brings ‘very dry’ reality to US West

Al Jazeera speaks to UN expert Lis Mullin Bernhardt about need to adapt to historic drought’s impact on key US waterway.

Inverse

Millions of People Are at Risk of This Rare Climate Change Threat — Study

Flooding from glacial lakes is already threatening millions of people in Asia and Latin America due to climate change, a new study reports.

WEKU

Why the EPA puts a higher value on rich lives lost to climate change

There is one number that the Environmental Protection Agency relies on to decide which climate policies to pursue. So why does that number assume the lives of richer people are worth more?

Los Angeles Times

Why helping whales to flourish can help fight climate change

The ocean is one of the planet’s great carbon sinks, absorbing nearly a third of the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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