Changing your personal habits is a popular reaction to climate change issues but scientist aren’t so sure that our small lifestyle changes will be even close to enough to make a real difference. What is clear is that companies and governments making mass changes will. So the advice? Keep fighting for policy changes and accountability for corporations but make the changes that you can and encourage others as well.
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The changing climate won’t just impact the weather. With the warmer temperatures, the world is going to be looking at many disappearing coastlines, many of which people, you know, live along. Rather than just waiting for everything to sink, New York City is looking at a radical plan to prepare for it and it may outline how the rest of the world handles the same problems.
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Your local park is important and as the climate warms up, you should fight to keep it. Green spaces are crucial, especially in urban environments, in the fight against climate change. They have a ton of social and health benefits for people but they also have some pretty good benefits for the planet.
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It’s going to take a lot to make the sort of changes we need to disrupt climate change, everyone knows that, right? Well, maybe that’s not exactly true. Maybe a small push, at just the right time, might be good too. Researchers have proposed a new theory, that smaller changes enacted at critical points might help to turn back the clock on the changing world.
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We don’t usually like to see clouds but as climate change starts ramping up, they might be one of the many things of the past. A World Without Clouds sounds like a science fiction short but it’s not, it’s a piece that looks at what our coming future may be.
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Climate change is a big deal but not everyone understands it. This isn’t their fault, it’s a lot of information to take in! And everyday, it seems that we are finding out something new about the issue. It’s a lot to keep up with. Thankfully, BBC has help, in the form of a bot. The Climate Change Chat Bot will help anyone get up to speed on what’s going on with the climate.
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Snow, most people are pretty annoyed when it starts falling but maybe in the future it will be a boon to our electricity bills. New device can create electricity from snowfall which may also go on to bridge the gap for solar usage in areas were it snows a lot. The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) can make sustainable energy an option even for frozen wastelands.
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If you needed yet another reason to fight against climate change, here’s one that should get you ready to do what it takes to press back against this scourge: it’s making our allergy seasons worse. That’s right, the warming climate is also why you’re sneezing with itchy eyes even longer each year.
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The glaciers are melting around the world which we knew but there’s a bit more bad news, they’re melting faster than we previously thought. So fast that if they continue at this rate, they won’t last the century in a number of regions. Which means come 2100, we’ll be living in a very wet, very hot world.
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Part of many cities fight against emissions involve areas of the city where they enforce low emissions from cars. This means that only those that pass current emission standards can drive in those zones or incur a fine. London has recently taken steps to institute one of the toughest with the ULEZ, Ultra Low Emissions Zone.
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There are some harsh places to live in the world but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be as Eco-friendly as possibly when living in them. A school in India is located in one of the harshest environments in the world and they’re focused on green education, despite very little actual greenery.
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CO2 levels are sort of an abstract idea when it comes to the public. They are very real, and can be measured in real ways but most people really only here about them yearly, or when some big report comes out that manages to come across their radar. The Guardian wants to change that by reporting the CO2 level daily with the rest of the weather.
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In order to get the climate numbers where we need them to you know, not die, scientists have said that not just making changes to our carbon output is needed but also carbon capture. To this end, Carbon Engineering has developed a process that is effective at removing carbon from the air.
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When we talk about climate change, there are a few “bad actors” on the global stage that get mentioned a lot. One of them is China and honestly, they don’t deserve it. Although they are responsible for a good deal of carbon emissions, they’re really cleaning up their act and more importantly, climate change is everyone’s problem.
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Air pollution is a big topic in environmental discussions. The emissions we’re putting out into the air aren’t just messing up the climate (which is really not great) but it’s also messing up our health. With the rise of air pollution, we’re seeing poor health outcomes in our bodies as well and the only way to fix this is to stop it.
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