Many U.S. cities are leading the way in cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, with mandates on more efficient buildings, renewable energy and expansion of mass transit. But often these efforts face hurdles in the form of ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2023
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Last month, a significant victory for climate change was won behind closed doors. In 2020, Katta O'Donnell, then a 23-year-old university student in Melbourne, launched a world-leading class action lawsuit against the Commonwealth ...
Environment
Sep 7, 2023
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Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it's threatening our human rights. That's the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against the "overwhelming ...
Environment
Jun 27, 2023
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Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild, is reportedly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to replace certain editorial roles, in an effort to cut costs.
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2023
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), released just prior to an international climate convention in 2015, explicitly stated that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions were the highest ...
Environment
Jun 20, 2023
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For the past few years, American democracy has been perceived as backsliding. Politicians' refusal to accept election results despite a lack of evidence of fraud, the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and state-level ...
Social Sciences
May 30, 2023
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The Dark Ages were not entirely dark. Advances in agriculture and building technology increased Medieval wealth and led to a wave of cathedral construction in Europe. However, it was a time of profound inequality. Elites ...
Social Sciences
May 17, 2023
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With climate-enhanced droughts, heatwaves and fires ravaging three continents and the threat of a new surge in global warming, the world urgently needs to ramp-up solutions for slashing carbon pollution. But which solutions ...
Environment
May 10, 2023
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In a paper published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, an international research team composed of scientists affiliated with more than a dozen institutions, including the California Academy of Sciences, ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2023
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Crises can accelerate structural change and spur an absolute decoupling of CO2 emissions from economic growth. Countries that have already embarked on an ambitious path towards climate action have proven themselves particularly ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2023
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