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5 books to understand climate change better

The world will mark Earth Day on April 22, a day to remind governments, institutions, businesses, and citizens to work…

3 years ago

Climate change trauma has real impacts on cognition and the brain, study shows

The big idea Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors’…

3 years ago

Australia’s forest fires fanned by climate crisis: Study

National science agency says climate ‘overwhelming factor’ in driving fires, with fire seasons getting longer and affecting more areas. Australia…

4 years ago

Climate change leading to a spike in forest fires

Hyderabad: The frequency and intensity of forest fires in India, as well as the number of months in which such fires…

4 years ago

Colorado’s Marshall fire: Climate change and growing population led to disaster in Boulder County, scientists say

Becky Bolinger and the team at the Colorado Climate Center have kept watch over the dry and warm conditions that…

4 years ago

Kuwaiti citizens deal with effects of fires in world’s largest tyre graveyard

Shocking images of a fire burning across a landfill filled with old tyres circulated widely on social media in late…

4 years ago

Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?

A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent. Become a powerful…

4 years ago

Background on California Wildfires

Efren Oxlaj Tambito, Sam Packard, and Liz Rickley are environmental ethics fellows at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.  Views…

4 years ago

A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.

Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a…

4 years ago

Climate Change, Cost Factor: Why it Takes Months to Subdue Some Wildfires

Inmate firefighters rush to move brush away from homes which are threatened by the Fire. (Reuters) More than 20,000 wildland…

4 years ago

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