August 2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Although the seasonal temperature cycle typically peaks in July, August...
The Global Temperature Graphic That Should Make You...
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From floating plastic islands and orbiting space junk to mountaintop removal and deep-sea mining, the worldwide destruction of ecosystems is worse now than at any other time. The UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins is advocating a new law at the UN that would...
The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazil’s leading scientists. A draft seen by the Guardian warns that the “vegetation-climate equilibrium...
“The destruction of the planet is proceeding at such a fast pace … soon we won’t have clean air or clean water any more and our children will not have a healthy environment to live in.”...
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