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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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Energy minister visits Bruce Power to announce new isotope production system
Canada’s minister of energy and natural resources visited Bruce Power on Tuesday to announce a new isotope production system. Tim Hodgson visited the nuclear power plant as Bruce Power detailed the installation of an isotope production system (IPS) in Unit 6, the first reactor to be renewed under the company’s Life-Extension Program and Major Component […]
Factcheck: Trump’s Climate Report Includes More than 100 False or Misleading Claims
By Ayesha Tandon, Leo Hickman, Cecilia Keating, and Robert McSweeney. Design by Tom Prater. A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists. … [continued]
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Scientists Hack Microbes to Identify Environmental Sources of Methane
UC Berkeley researchers tweaked a key enzyme involved in microbial methane production to understand the unique fingerprints of different environments on Earth that generate the greenhouse gas. By Robert Sanders Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth — come … [continued]
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