With greater accuracy comes more foreseeable damage
The simulations that best capture the current climate situations also predict the direst consequences for Earth due to human actions
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Do We Need More Nuclear Power?
Nuclear power and its inherent problems have left us needing to answer some important questions: Do we need more nuclear power? Do we need more coal? Do we need something else? In reality, nuclear power can help, but it’s not a sustainable source of energy. There are too many unknowns, too much room for human error and too much political red tape in the way.
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United States at Bonn Climate Talks
While the delegation’s pro-fossil fuel ideas seemed to not be tethered to reality it was clear that the United States could remain a party to climate discussions on the international level at Bonn without changing its individual stance on the issue.
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Could super plants be the solution to high CO2 levels?
While planting more trees and plants has been a well-established method to speed up the process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, what if we could make the individual plants absorb more carbon dioxide instead of just increasing the number of plants?
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Could Climate Change Visas Become a Reality?
Photo by Nick Kean/CC BY 2.0 Article by Monishaa Suresh We’ve heard of work visas, travel visas, and political
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Record High Carbon Dioxide Levels
We have been witnessing a steady increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and it has now reached a level almost 100 times larger than the levels at the end of the most recent ice age.
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Impact of climate change on dolphins’ diets
Photo by William Warby/(CC BY 2.0) Article by Monishaa Suresh As climate change progresses, its impact is manifested in
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Is it the end for internal combustion engines?
In the future, 2017 maybe seen as the year in which electric vehicles made the transition from “a promising progressive fad to an industry-wide inevitability.”
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Scott Pruitt’s Partisan Schedule
It is concerning that the administrator of the EPA, an organization whose mission is to “protect human health and the environment,” is seemingly working against just that by meeting with lobbyists and executives from large coal-burning corporations.
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Are our veggies becoming less healthy?
As time goes on, climate change seemingly inserts itself into every aspect of our life and it has now made it to the dining table. Grains and vegetables make up the core of most people’s diets around the world and if these staples begin to lose their nutrients, we will be left to solve a whole new array of problems.
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