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Wetlands Turn Up the Heat: New Climate Model Adds Natural Methane Feedback

A new version of the widely used MAGICC climate model incorporates a temperature-driven wetland methane feedback, raising projected warming slightly and widening uncertainty across all scenarios.

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LCV and NRDC Action Fund Launch $250K Ad on Climate Impacts of Dirty Data Centers

The Summer the Debate Shifted: Heat, Money and the Cost of Waiting

Western Europe has experienced its hottest June on record. A rapid attribution study concluded that comparable temperatures would have been virtually

Inside Climate News

China’s Blue Mirage - Inside Climate News

Fish farming in Xinjiang is sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is a desert seafood boom built on political control and forced labor.

Malaysia shuts schools as haze from Indonesian fires chokes Southeast Asia

Kuala Lumpur's Air Pollutant Index says air quality at unhealthy levels amid smog from forest fires.

Institutional investors remain committed to net-zero regardless of government policy

Nearly all (94 per cent) investors with net-zero targets said they would maintain those commitments regardless of government policy, despite ongoing concerns over political and regulatory uncertainty, according to Robeco's <i>Global Climate Investing Survey</i>

Mel Tyree: The solution to climate change could be greed

The solutions that would stabilize and eventually reverse the abnormal weather trends associated with human-caused climate change have been available for over 30 years. However, due to lack of U.S.

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Adaptation: Business as usual and business unusual

As resistance to emissions mitigation intensifies and climate damages become harder to ignore, political attention is increasingly turning towards adaptation

The Conversation

Some climate tipping points are being studied far more than others – new research

Scientists aren’t focusing on the systems that may be closest to tipping.

Climate-driven wildfires in Canada could cost future generations trillions: study | Globalnews.ca

"A motivation of this study was to put it into economic terms that the general public could grasp a little bit better," researcher Sian Kou-Giesbrecht said.

Why Capitalism Won't Save the Climate

Although the social and environmental costs of renewable energy technologies are often gestured at parenthetically in left discourse about climate action,

Green Central Banking

World Bank and IMF’s lack of climate action could make countries bystanders in their own destruction

The World Bank and IMF are retreating from climate action under US pressure, risking deeper vulnerability as climate shocks intensify.

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'Urban Greenlash': Why is climate action facing opposition across cities?

In areas around the world, growing opposition to climate action signals a new disruptive wave that researchers call an “urban greenlash,” a backlash against climate plans and policies in cities.

Climate change has devastated one of the world’s great penguin colonies

The chinstrap penguin population on remote Zavodovski Island has fallen by 63 per cent in just 15 years, as warming seas push their krill food supply further south.

Deep sea mining could give investors a legal route to challenge climate action - experts

Pacific analysts warn trade deals, contracts and seabed mining agreements could leave governments facing costly claims if they tighten environmental rules.