Category: Climate change
Analysis: Record UK Wildfires Have Burned an Area Twice the Size of Glasgow in 2025
Wildfires have scorched more than 40,000 hectares of land so far this year across the UK — an area more than twice the size of the Scottish city of Glasgow. This is already a record amount of land burned in a single year, far exceeding the previous high, Global Wildfire Information … [continued]
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Fossil-Fuelled Heat Has Caused Tropical Birds to Decline by “Up to 38%” since 1950s
An uptick in heat extremes, driven by human-caused climate change, has caused tropical bird populations to decline by up to 38% since the 1950s, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis. The study combines ecological and climate attribution techniques to trace the fingerprint of fossil-fuelled climate change on declining wildlife populations. It … [continued]
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Why the Recent Slowdown in Arctic Sea Ice Loss Is Only Temporary
By Dr Mark England, assistant professor in the department of Earth system science at UC Irvine, formerly senior research fellow in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Exeter. The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic has long been a prominent symbol of climate change. Observations reveal that Arctic sea ice extent at the … [continued]
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South America’s Electric Car Surge: From Lagging To Accelerating
South America is arriving late to the electric vehicle transition, but the pace of change is beginning to quicken. For most of the 2010s, the region was a marginal player, with electric cars counted in the hundreds while China and Europe were racing ahead in the millions. That has shifted … [continued]
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Businesses face ‘chaos’ as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution
A lot of companies want the EPA in charge of setting national climate regulations because it helps shield them from lawsuits and creates a predictable environment in which to make investments.