tag > ClimateChange
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Xi calls for unprecedented efforts to improve global environmental governance (xinhuanet)
"Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that the international community should work together with unprecedented ambition and action to strive for a fair and reasonable system of global environmental governance featuring win-win cooperation and promote the sustainable development of humanity. [...] Xi stressed that Earth is humanity's shared home, and a sound ecosystem is essential for the prosperity of civilizations."
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Everything that is wrong with the western "progressive" design community in one tweet.
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Africa's drought crisis: Zimbabwe seeks solutions, Madagascar edges toward famine
Multi-year drought in Madagascar is pushing 1.35m to famine -with those suffering from hunger up 85% on last year. Similar story unfolding in Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia. “We haven't harvested anything for almost 2 years”
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"You'd think a top scientist would have realised - on the evidence of COPs 01-25 - that telling leaders what they 'must' do is like - well, telling the captain of the Titanic to drive carefully, old boy. Climate scientists badly need a new theory of change." - @johnthackara
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The Human-Flora-Fauna relationship needs urgent improvement
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Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since 812' (BBC)
The cherry blossom season, Japan's traditional sign of spring, has peaked at the earliest date since records began 1,200 years ago, research shows. The 2021 season in the city of Kyoto peaked on 26 March, according to data collected by Osaka University. Increasingly early flowerings in recent decades are likely to be as a result of climate change, scientists say. The records from Kyoto go back to 812 AD in imperial court documents and diaries. The previous record there was set in 1409, when the season reached its peak on 27 March.
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$100 Million Solar Geoengineering Research Program Proposed (theguardian)
In a report it recommends funding of $100 million to $200 million over five years to better understand the feasibility of interventions to dim the sun, the risk of harmful unintended consequences and how such technology could be governed in an ethical way.
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Fine dust deaths: significantly more than previously thought (Heise)
Through the successful reduction in fine dust emissions, one of the results of the investigation, 2.4 million deaths were avoided, 1.5 million in China and the rest abroad.
Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought (Harvard)
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018
Delhi pollution: Fine dust killed 15,000 prematurely in 2016, says study (Hindutimes)
Apart from the deaths in Delhi, the study also showed that Mumbai, which was one of five megacities considered from India, reported the fourth highest number of deaths among 12 megacities.
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If SUV drivers were a country, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions...
While car sales stagnated worldwide, SUVs rose to make up almost half of all passenger vehicle sales in 2018 - making SUVs the second-largest contributor to the increase in global carbon emissions from 2010 to 2018, exceeded only by the power sector .
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Humans now produce 160,000 plastic bags a second, enough to ring the planet 7 times an hour.
Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month—that is 3 million a minute. Most of them are disposable face masks made from plastic microfibers.
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Causes of Soil Degradation
Percentage of Mineral Depletion From Soil During The Past 100 Years
