When we talk about the climate crisis it is generally as something that will happen. If we don’t get the emissions in check the temperature will heat up. If we don’t stop emissions then we will have more fires. If we don’t stop emissions then we will have rising sea levels. But these things are already happening. Saint-Louis, Senegal is proof.
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Australia just had one of the most devastating wildfires on record. It burned for a number of days and destroyed hundreds of miles worth of animal and human habitats displacing millions. It is true that Australia often has wildfires and they even had a few really bad ones, but one of the underlying causes of this one may have been climate change and scientists are on a race to find out.
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Houseplants are very popular these days. Mainly for their aesthetic appeal, after all, nothing livens up a space like some green! But also for their health benefits. Cleaner air and maybe a little bit of a boost to your mental state. But are they bad for the environment? Well, the answer is, maybe if you’re not mindful.
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The Doomsday Clock has moved to the closest it’s been to the midnight of civilization in a long time. We are now 100 seconds from midnight and a lot of that danger isn’t due to the strife between world leaders, but due to man made climate change.
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The icecaps are melting and that’s a major problem for a variety of reasons. One being the rising sea levels but another being that losing the reflective poles will make our planet warmer. Some people want to save the ice by geoengineering. Most of their ideas aren’t really feasible but man are they cool.
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NASA has confirmed, the year is over and 2019 is one of the hottest on record. The trend of warmth that we’ve been seeing isn’t a fluke or some sort of anomaly, it’s a real problem that can only be pulled back by real change.
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When it comes to sustainable agriculture, we need to make some changes to keep everyone fed. We currently don’t make enough food for everyone but with some shuffling around, we can exceed what we need without destroying the Earth.
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One of the ways that we can capture carbon from the air is by planting more trees. They do the job naturally all while giving us delicious oxygen. They’re great! It’s not new information that planting trees will help but many people have asked, how many do we need? Well, turns out the answer is, kind of a lot.
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Microsoft has pledged to remove all carbon that it has put into the environment as a company by the year 2050. Again, all the carbon they have created since 1975. That’s 45 years worth of carbon that they are pledging to pull out of the air plus ending their own current output.
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Trees are important in turning the tide on climate change but you can’t plant them everywhere. Specifically you are limited in what you can plant in an urban environment given all of the buildings and asphalts and what not. Enter City Trees, the towers of moss that want to clean the air up.
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Electric cars are one of the solutions to cutting down on the amount of emissions and in Norway, they’re making real headway. So many people are driving electric now that gas stations are actually becoming a thing of the past, replaced by electric charging stations.
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The wildfires in Australia have been heartbreaking. Many people have lost their homes and some species may never recover from the losses that they incurred during the tragedy. Although the fires were caused primarily by natural weather patterns, the role that man made climate change played cannot be ignored.
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With many companies moving to remove plastic from their shops and businesses, some groups are concerned that the alternatives may harm the environment, just in different ways. They argue that it’s six in one hand and a half dozen in the other, ditching plastic may just be trading for a less visible problem.
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The world is in trouble. Although much of the eco-problems we’re dealing with, the big contributors to climate change and pollution are at the feet of corporations, that doesn’t mean that we, the individuals of the world, shouldn’t do anything at all to try and make things better. This article has five pretty simple things you can start or think about starting this year.
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Almond milk is super popular but harvesting the main ingredient requires a lot more than just planting a tree and watching them flourish. It takes the work of a lot of bees and that work is killing them through a variety of ways.
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