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As water supply shrinks, California struggles to maintain aging aqueducts

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — As drought, global warming and chronic overuse push the Colorado River to perilous new lows, water officials are hoping to prevent an earthquake from severing a critical Depression-era aqueduct that now connects millions of Southern Californians to the shrinking river.

Los Angeles Times

Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather

Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years.

The Conversation

Global Warming Triggered Age Of The Dinosaurs

"Major shifts in global temperature can have dramatic and varying impacts on biodiversity."

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Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs melt

Ilulissat (Denmark) (AFP) - As tourists flock to Greenland to take in its breathtaking icebergs and natural beauty, authorities are mulling ways to control crowds to protect the fragile environment, already threatened by global warming.

AFP

Clean energy needs far clearer policy

Amid rising oil prices and the need to slow down global warming from fossil fuels, the government's vow to give electric vehicles a big policy push is more than welcome. The road ahead will not be easy, however.

Bangkok Post

European forest fires release record-breaking carbon emissions

The multiple forest fires that have been raging in France since the beginning of summer have released record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, according to satellite data, and fires in Spain in mid-July also helped break records for carbon emissions. Fuelled by global warming, the blazes are reducing the…

France 24

Brazil’s other deforestation: has the savannah farming boom gone too far?

Decades of intensive agriculture threaten the Cerrado region, which acts as an important carbon dioxide ‘sink’ and helps fend off global warming

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Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study

Paris (AFP) - The Tibetan Plateau will experience significant water loss this century due to global warming, according to research published Monday that warns of severe supply stress in a climate change "hotspot".

AFP

Global warming to cause a U.S. "Extreme Heat Belt," study warns

The country is already seeing the impacts of hotter, more widespread heat waves.

Axios

US lawmakers pass landmark climate, health plan in big win for Biden

Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers on Friday adopted President Joe Biden's sprawling climate, tax and health care plan -- a major win for the veteran Democrat that includes the biggest ever American investment in the battle against global warming.

AFP

Risk of catastrophic California ‘megaflood’ has doubled due to global warming, researchers say

LOS ANGELES — Even today, as California struggles with severe drought, global warming has doubled the likelihood that weather conditions will unleash a deluge as devastating as the Great Flood of 1862, according to a UCLA study released Friday.

Los Angeles Times

Beyond net-zero: we should, if we can, cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels

The world’s focus is sharply fixed on achieving net-zero emissions, yet surprisingly little thought has been given to what comes afterwards. In our new paper, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss the big unknowns in a post net-zero world.

The Conversation

Suella Braverman received £10,000 leadership bid donation from prominent climate denier’s firm

Attorney general declared the donation from company owned by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the climate sceptic thinktank Global Warming Policy Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Latest Union Of Concerned Scientists Report: EVs Really Are Cleaner

All tech has environmental impacts, and even “zero-emission” cars create carbon emissions, but it's important not to believe the anti-EV crowd's misinformation.

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'Extreme weather events show we are now living with consequences of climate crisis'

Scientists had long predicted that global warming would lead to more extreme weather - but what is concerning them now is the speed with which the records are tumbling

The Conversation

The world's biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought

The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not any more. And our new research, published in Nature,…

ABC News

Experts say the net zero concept is often used to delay taking action against emissions

Leading climate experts question the integrity of some carbon credit schemes and say the methods we've adopted to reverse global warming won't work.

Inverse

Climate change may push North America’s forests to a “tipping point”

A trio of studies in the journal Nature highlights the serious threat global warming poses to boreal and deciduous forests in North America.

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UK heatwave and global warming erodes coastline and risks wiping areas off map

Walkers watched in horror as a large section of Sidmouth coastline in Devon crashed onto the beach at 9.15am on Monday. Parts of the cliff face were still tumbling into the sea hours later

The Independent UK

'We're back, baby': New bill boosts US climate credibility

The U.S. has renewed credibility on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own efforts, experts say, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The new climate bill’s ripple effect on oceans

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), announced in late July by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., includes $369 billion in tax incentives to boost wind, solar and other clean energy. Although a step in the right direction, the bill will not by itself be enough to keep global…

Reuters

U.S.-China diplomatic breakdown clouds outlook for global climate progress

China's decision to halt bilateral talks on climate change with the United States has cast a cloud of doubt over whether the world can rally enough ambition to address global warming in time to avert its worst impacts.

Bangkok Post

DWP pioneers green buildings

Thailand is seeing a new trend in building designs that promise more energy saving and solutions to support the government's campaigns against global warming, says Bangkok-based architecture company DWP.

Irish Mirror

Global warming sparks major jump in cases of potentially lethal disease

Infected ticks can be found in woodland and heathland areas across Ireland

Evening Standard

Eight in 10 of us worried about climate change after heatwave

More than eight in 10 people say they are concerned about climate change, a new poll revealed on Tuesday, after last month’s record-breaking heatwave sparked fresh fears over global warming.

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