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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 Why is this?

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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

The biggest barrier to climate action in Canada is the oil and gas lobby. For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy.

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1,900th Post: Climate Change As A Wicked Problem

Edouard Stenger

Years ago, when I discovered the threat of climate change and the opportunities presented by solar photovoltaic energy, I thought this was pretty straightforward. Since that fateful English class in April 2004, a lot has changed and I have spent thousands of hours reading and writing about climate change.

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What Are The Tallest Trees In The World?

Earthava

Discovered in 2006, Hyperion reaches 115.85 Despite being heavily protected, it’s unclear the toll that climate change will play on their future. If climate change increases global temperatures, Redwoods may find themselves outside their comfort zone. Only five percent of the original old-growth forests are left.

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Nuclear Energy and Drought: A Recipe for Disaster

Vermont Law

Can it serve as a bridge to moving away from fossil fuels? In 2006, the Department of Energy warned that consumption of water for electricity production could more than double by 2030 to 7.3 The impact of climate change will only worsen drought and stress on water resources and create more tension throughout the world.

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