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Willow Project: US government approves Alaska oil and gas development

3/14/2023 | By Sam Cabral | Original Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64943603 Image Source: GETTY IMAGESActivists called for the Willow project to be halted over its climate and wildlife impacts. US President Joe Biden has approved a major oil and gas drilling project in Alaska that faced strong opposition from environmental activists. The company behind the Willow project, […]

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Top 10 Most Littered Plastic Items in the U.S.

2/9/2023 | By Chris Dickert | Original Article: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/top-10-plastic-litter/ The Top 10 Most Littered Plastic Items in the U.S. Hailed as a miracle material when it first appeared, plastic has taken us to the moon, revolutionized medicine, and helped make computers and cellphones possible. But plastic has a darker side. The world generates over 350

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Visualizing U.S. Consumption of Fuel and Materials per Capita

January 27, 2023 | By Bruno Venditti | Original Link:https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-u-s-consumption-of-fuel-and-materials-per-capita/ Visualizing U.S. Consumption of Fuel and Materials per Capita Wealthy countries consume massive amounts of natural resources per capita, and the United States is no exception. According to data from the National Mining Association, each American needs more than 39,000 pounds (17,700 kg) of minerals

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Atmospheric rivers take a chunk out of California drought

Published January 25, 2023 | BY TOM DI LIBERTO | Original Link: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/atmospheric-rivers-take-chunk-out-california-drought A series of nine atmospheric rivers starting in late December 2022 through mid-January 2023 dropped feet of rain and snow across California and other parts of the West Coast, according to a special drought update from Drought.gov. The tremendous amounts of precipitation

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Deep learning-based AI system helps infer and predict Indonesian throughflow

Published on January 19, 2023 | By Zhang Nannan, | Chinese Academy of SciencesOriginal Link: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-deep-learning-based-ai-infer-indonesian.html Scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology have successfully constructed an inference and prediction system of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) by using a deep-learning method

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Charted: 40 Years of Global Energy Production, by Country

Published on September 24, 2022 | By NeoMam Studios | Article/Editing: Carmen Ang | Original Article: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/global-energy-consumption-and-production-since-1980/ Energy was already a hot topic before 2022, but soaring household energy bills and a cost of living crisis has brought it even more to the forefront. Which countries are the biggest energy producers, and what types of energy are

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We Must Use COP27 to Transform Energy and Food Systems

Published on 13/04/2022, 2:49pm | Written by Written by Mahmoud Mohieldin | Originally published: https://climatechangenews.com/2022/04/13/we-must-use-cop27-to-transform-energy-and-food-systems/ Comment: The latest IPCC report and Ukraine crisis show the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels, investing in renewables and developing sustainable agriculture Field workers harvesting drought-tolerant maize in Kenya (Photo: CIMMYT/ Peter Lowe/Flickr) By Mahmoud Mohieldin “Rapid, deep and immediate” emissions

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UN Targets Early Warning Systems for All in Five Years

Published on 23/03/2022, 1:06pm | Written by Written by Joe Lo | Originally published: https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/03/23/un-targets-early-warning-systems-for-all-in-five-years/ Building the capacity to alert everyone in time to prepare for droughts, storms and flooding can prevent damage and save lives, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion A farmer in the Philippines reads a message from the weather bureau (Photo: Greenpeace/John

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Five Burning Climate Issues for the 2022 UN General Assembly

Published on 16/09/2022, 2:22pm | Written by By Chloé Farand | Originally published https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/09/16/five-burning-climate-issues-for-the-2022-un-general-assembly/ Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding and soaring energy bills are shaping the UN agenda – for those leaders who show up The plenary hall at the UN headquarters in New York (Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown/Flickr) By Chloé Farand More than 150 world leaders

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