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These 3 Super Tipping Points Could Lead The World Out Of Its Carbon Crisis

January 24, 2023 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, green economy, tipping point

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:35:28 +0000

The Breakthrough Effect report pinpoints 3 super tipping points that could help lead the world away from a climate disaster.

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The Climate Crisis Isn’t Just Taking Pacific Islanders’ Homes, It’s Taking Our Identities

December 4, 2019 admin climate change, environment, Guam, Indigenous, kiribati, managed retreat, opinión, pacific islands, tipping point

Credit to Author: Leilani Rania Ganser| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:56:22 +0000

As Indigenous Pacific Islanders, climate adaptation plans cannot override our fight for sovereignty and self-determination.

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We’re About to Cross 9 Critical Climate Tipping Points, Scientists Say

November 27, 2019 admin Climate, climate change, climate crisis, Coral reefs, ice melt, ipcc, nature, Paris climate agreement, rainforest, tech-science, tipping point

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:02:56 +0000

These tipping points are now “active,” scientists warn, and the rapid melting of polar ice and the loss of critical habitats could trigger an irreversible “global tipping point.”

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This Arctic Community Is Literally Falling Into the Ocean

November 4, 2019 admin Arctic, Canada, climate change, environment, north, Northwest Territories, tipping point

Credit to Author: Weronika Murray| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:20:00 +0000

Some residents of Tuktoyaktuk, on the northern tip of Northwest Territories, are facing relocation as they struggle with melting ground and a rising sea.

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Irish Communities Are Reclaiming One of the World’s Dirtiest Fuels

October 24, 2019 admin activism, climate change, environment, environmental justice, Fuel, greenhouse gas emissions, Ireland, peat, tipping point

Credit to Author: Chris Baraniuk| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The harvesting of peat has created jobs and heated homes across Ireland for centuries, but local environmentalists say it’s time to start treating the land differently.

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My Community Is Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of the World

October 3, 2019 admin Canada, canada news, climate change, climate emergency, environment, old crow, tipping point, Yukon

Credit to Author: Paul Josie| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:15:00 +0000

Wildfires, mudslides, and an influx of wolves: Paul Josie from Old Crow, Yukon, on what it’s like living in a place that’s declared a climate emergency.

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The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History

September 13, 2019 admin activism, climate change, environment, Environmentalism, green movement, Indigenous, RACE, tipping point

Credit to Author: Julian Brave NoiseCat| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:42:07 +0000

Because racism in environmentalism hasn’t gone away, and it’s holding the movement back.

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Residents of a Siberian Town With Black Snow Are Pleading for Asylum in Canada

September 12, 2019 admin black snow, Canada, climate change, environment, environmental refugees, kiselyovsk, Russia, siberia, tipping point

Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:51:59 +0000

Residents of Kiselyovsk, the heart of Russia’s coal-mining industry, are asking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accept them as environmental refugees. But they don’t stand a chance.