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The Latest Breaking News from Climate Change

How people, pets and infrastructure can respond to extreme heat

Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense. With much of the U.S. facing a weekend of extreme temperatures, here are some tips for protecting yourself and your loved ones.

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Izaak Walton League of America, founded in Chicago, celebrates its 100th anniversary

The organization celebrated with its 100th anniversary national convention in East Peoria.

Chicago Sun-Times

Why the Voting Age Needs to be Lowered to Sixteen

The time to address climate change and inequality is running out. Young people deserve to have our say—while we still can

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UK heatwave: how the fire service will need to prepare as extreme weather events get worse

The UK’s record-breaking heatwave made it clear how unprepared much of the country is for extreme weather caused by climate change. There were hundreds of fires reported around the country, making it UK firefighters’ busiest day since the second world war – and just a glimpse of what’s to come.

The Conversation

Carbon capture technology could turn trains into giant greenhouse-gas vacuums

Engineers have a creative plan to fight climate change as locomotives chug across the countryside — by sucking carbon dioxide from the air.

Inverse

Editorial: Europe's lead role fighting climate change falls victim to a massive heat wave

Europeans’ resolve to combat climate change is melting under the summer heat as they endure the kinds of temperatures and fire conditions that the American West has dealt with for years. Long protected from American-style heat catastrophes because of consistently cool weather patterns, Europe is now living the nightmare.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On Nutrition: Is going meat-free the answer to climate change?

When it comes to climate change, are cows as bad as cars? Probably not, says Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis researcher and air quality specialist. He asserts that meat and dairy animals are not major drivers of climate change and they might well be part of the solution.

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EXPLAINER: What's behind Europe's spate of deadly wildfires?

Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop

The Independent UK

Explainer-Luton Airport runway meltdown shows airports vulnerable to climate change

The temporary disruption at London's Luton Airport on Monday when soaring temperatures caused a small section of the asphalt to lift is an example of the challenges airports face in making their infrastructure resilient to climate change, experts say.

Reuters

New research in Arnhem Land reveals why institutional fire management is inferior to cultural burning

One of the conclusions of this week’s shocking State of the Environment report is that climate change is lengthening Australia’s bushfire seasons and raising the number of days with a fire danger rating of “very high” or above. In New South Wales, for example, the season now extends to almost…

The Conversation

Drought drives Las Vegas to cap size of home swimming pools

Limiting the size of swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might offer just a drop in the proverbial bucket of water savings amid historic drought and climate change in the U.S. Southwest

The Independent UK

Climate change could cause more heat waves, extreme weather, UNC professor says

Deadly wildfires and oppressive heat waves have swept across the globe as multiple countries experience record-breaking temperatures that environmentalists believe is a result of climate change.

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Former carbon pricing mastermind Greg Combet backs proposed fix for Australia's energy crisis

Former federal climate change minister backs proposed fix for crisis-riddled national electricity market, calling for ideology to be taken out of debate.

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Most climate-resistant states in America, ranked

From destructive wildfires to heat waves that stretch the limits of the utility grid to increasingly powerful hurricanes and storms, climate change touches every part of the United States. But some regions are in shape to fare better than others. These are the best and worst states in America for…

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Scale of fires across London during heatwave unprecedented, says brigade chief

London Fire Commissioner Andy Roe said climate change is ‘one of the most serious risks’ facing the capital.

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Coalition changes allowing renewable energy agency to fund fossil fuel projects to be scrapped

Climate change minister Chris Bowen says Arena will have mandate to accelerate electrification and focus on renewable technology

Chicago Sun-Times

Spanish worker’s death from heat stroke amid heat wave spotlights need to adapt to climate change

The death is driving a debate in Spain about the need to adapt labor arrangements to climate change, moves that would benefit the poorest in society the most.

Reuters

In Syria, a poor wheat harvest adds to food worries

Poor rainfall, fuel shortages, soaring fertilizer prices: it's been a bad year for farmers in northeastern Syria where a disappointing wheat crop looks set to deal another blow to food supplies in a country grappling with climate change and war.

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France's worst wildfires in 30 years force a rethink on managing forests

The loss of more than 20,000 hectares of pine forest in the Gironde department of southwest France is a disaster for the region and its population, but it could be a wake-up call on the need to adapt Europe's largest artificial forest to the challenges of climate change.

Daily Record

Met Office experts explain how much climate change had an impact on recent heatwave

An expert has said that it would be 'virtually impossible' to reach the temperatures that the UK did without human influence.

The Conversation

Biden announces new climate change actions but holds an emergency declaration in reserve

On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment. Biden announced millions of dollars in funding for climate change measures, including upgrading infrastructure, weatherizing buildings and installing cooling in homes.…

Reuters

Extreme weather is Earth's 'chorus of anguish', Pope says

Pope Francis on Thursday called on world leaders to heed the Earth's "chorus of cries of anguish" stemming from climate change, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity.

Evening Standard

We are still sleepwalking headlong into disasters that are all too visible

When to start worrying that something catastrophic is on the horizon? Most of us tend to start at some point after it has already happened. We buy insurance against a particular disaster only after we have experienced it (and then cancel it a few years later). We fail to evacuate…

Radio France Internationale

French forest fires under control as cooler weather moves in

French President Emmanuel Macron visited firefighters battling twin blazes near Bordeaux as Europe counted the cost of a record heatwave, and climate change protesters pointed to the sizzling weather as a wake up call for the continent.

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Kids want to put Montana on trial for unhealthy climate policies

For her birthday every October, Grace Gibson-Snyder and her family explore the Lamar Valley just inside the northern border of Yellowstone National Park.

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