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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

In its analysis of the new data, InfluenceMap, a London-based nonprofit think tank, found that two-thirds of investor- and state-owned fossil fuel companies outside of North America expanded oil and gas operations between 2016 and 2022. Only in North America were a slim minority of carbon majors — 16 of 37 — linked to rising emissions.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

DeSmogBlog

New research for the first time links wildfire risks and impacts in western North America to carbon emissions traceable to the world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies. Instead, an additional area spanning almost 20 million acres, or roughly the size of Maine, has burned in forest fires across western North America since 1986.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible.

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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate

Energy Innovation

Rising temperatures can shrink suitable habitats, drought can spur tree mortality, imperiling forest health, and ocean acidification, driven by elevated ocean uptake of CO 2 emissions, intensifies damage to coral reefs and other marine species around the globe. This report, with participation from Canada, the U.S.,

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

After the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1815, parts of Europe and North America saw a “year without summer.” Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. degree Celsius (0.9

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Understanding Biodiversity Loss In A Changing Climate

Energy Innovation

Rising temperatures can shrink suitable habitats, drought can spur tree mortality, imperiling forest health, and ocean acidification, driven by elevated ocean uptake of CO 2 emissions, intensifies damage to coral reefs and other marine species around the globe. This report, with participation from Canada, the U.S.,