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US cities face growing flood risks

...everywhere, as ice caps and glaciers melt and the seas rise in response to global warming driven by prodigal human combustion of fossil fuels, and researchers have advanced from general...

Posted On 13 Jun 2017

, By Frank

Cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions far beyond their urban borders

...typically from fossil fuels – to be produced, for instance. If a city instead chooses to foster low carbon construction materials this can drastically reduce its indirect CO2 emissions. Even...

Posted On 07 Nov 2017

, By Frank

Mixed forests may not resist climate change

...amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, as a consequence of profligate combustion of fossil fuels. “There are numerous...

Posted On 04 Dec 2017

, By Frank

Hotter world than predicted may be here by 2100

...– Tomorrow may experience a hotter world than anyone had feared. Global warming, under the notorious “business-as-usual scenario” in which humans go on burning fossil fuels to power economic growth,...

Posted On 08 Dec 2017

, By Frank

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Urban forests add to cities’ health and wealth

...a wider shift in approach by urban planners and civic authorities to seek ways to mitigate the climate change driven by ever more profligate consumption of fossil fuels, without actually...

Posted On 08 Jan 2018

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Climate adaptation vital to limit damage so far

...worst river floods. And – although President Trump has dismissed climate change as a hoax and announced a withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to limit the use of fossil fuels...

Posted On 05 Feb 2018

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Record climate heat means fiercer hurricanes

...Researchers have repeatedly warned that hurricane hazard must increase with global warming, driven by profligate human combustion of fossil fuels that dump greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Hurricanes will hit...

Posted On 19 May 2018

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Forest carbon emissions are set to grow

...two centuries since humans began using fossil fuels in ever-greater quantities, to release ever higher levels of greenhouse gases, the ratio of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen from...

Posted On 30 Jul 2018

, By Frank

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