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Earth system tipping events now seem inevitable – what does this mean for climate governance?

Legal Planet

A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Or low-carbon energy from renewable energy systems rather than nuclear power, with its needs for cooling water.

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New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Inside Climate News

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Washington Nature

While dry forests experience more severe wildfires and drought, coastal wet forests must contend with a unique set of circumstances, such as changes in land use, increasing insects and disease, and extreme weather events. With climate change compounding these stressors, there is an urgent need to prepare our forests for the future.

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Effecting Change with a Fulbright Fellowship

Academy of Natural Sciences

For Akilah Chatman, a Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) graduate from Drexel University, every day was a new adventure: climbing waterfalls, jumping from cliffs, exploring rainforests, befriending frogs and lizards, inspecting flora, gardening with their mother and so much more.

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Analysis: How to cut emissions from ‘big sport’?

A Greener Life

Freddie Daley is a research associate at the University of Sussex in the UK, who runs The Cool Down, a network encouraging sports to lead the low-carbon transition. Germany has responded by introducing Euro 2024 travel passes to encourage supporters to use public transport and connect by train between the host cities.

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Why is There So Much Seaweed on the Beach?

Ocean Conservancy

There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! In the Sargasso Sea, Sargassum provides a rich environment for wildlife that has been called a floating rainforest. Another possible source is one we know all too well, climate change.

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation. Times , July 18, 2023. [7]