Climate Crisis Weekly

• The Lancet and the Union of Concerned Scientists flag up how climate change is hurting children.
• This search engine is not only secure, it also supports ocean cleanup and emissions reduction.
• Why all media outlets need to follow the Guardian‘s lead and drop fossil-fuel advertising.
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• Scientists on an Antarctic expedition found that chinstrap penguin populations have plummeted.
• Half of US pollution deaths occur in states where the pollution didn’t start, according to a new study.
• Globally, air pollution from fossil fuels costs $8 billion per day.
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• What Donald Trump said (and didn’t) say about climate change, energy, and EVs in his State of the Union speech.
• Nine leading environmental organizations released a statement about Trump’s environmental track record (spoiler: they’re not impressed).
• The bumblebee population is in decline across North America and Europe due to rising temperatures.
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• Joe Biden said that “there’s not a single solitary scientist that thinks” the Green New Deal can work. 57 scientists responded that he’s wrong.
• An endurance swimmer swam beneath the Antarctic ice sheet to highlight climate-change effects.
• Wildlife experts in Australia work to rescue animals after the bushfire crisis.
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• US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s more worried about Iran than climate change.
• Why Bernie Sanders’ expensive, radical plan to tackle the climate crisis just might work.
• Not everyone at Davos is “elite”: Meet the youth climate activists who slept in tents in the snow.
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• Two islands in an Indonesian Unesco world biosphere reserve have disappeared due to rising seas.
• Microsoft announces it will be carbon negative by 2030.
• Australian firefighters saved the world’s last remaining “dinosaur trees” from the bushfires.
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• Greta Thunberg and 20 other young activists are calling on world leaders to abandon fossil fuels.
• London has installed three awesome “City Trees,” which are moss towers that eat pollution.
• This tiny house is not only seriously cute, it’s also eco-friendly and resistant to natural disasters.
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• Australian bushfires continue to blaze and the heat is relentless. Why is this happening?
• Angela Merkel’s New Year’s speech message: We must combat climate change. There is still time.
• The moment when climate activists Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg “meet” on Skype.
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• The Trump administration has dissolved more than 80 regulations protecting air, water, land, and health.
• Activists in South Korea build a “Christmas tree” out of cigarette butts in a call for a plastic ban.
• South Korea shuts down a second nuclear reactor.
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• 5 eco-friendly holiday gift ideas for you last-minute shoppers.
• If we cut air pollution, then it could prevent depression in millions of people.
• A Dutch designer created a billboard in Mexico that actually eats smog.
• A solar-powered desalinization plant provides clean water to a Kenyan community.
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• COP25: What was — and was not — achieved at the UN Climate Summit in Madrid.
• Climate activist Greta Thunberg is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year.
• Why melting ice in the Arctic directly affects every one of us.
• Which US states cut their environmental agency budget and staff numbers? This map will tell you.
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• COP25: Madrid’s Prado Museum and the WWF use art to show effects of climate change.
• The decade 2010-2019 is “on course” to be the warmest on record.
• Very bad news for the Florida Keys: Monroe County can’t save some areas from rising waters.
• Take this quiz to see how your choices would impact climate change.
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• Big youth climate emergency marches yesterday ahead of the Madrid talks next week.
• No-show British PM Boris Johnson is replaced with a melting ice sculpture at climate crisis debates.
• Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s brother Mike says unnecessary emails are hurting the environment.
• Scottish farmers are successfully growing and irrigating crops with seawater.
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• Coldplay announces they will pause touring until it becomes “environmentally beneficial.”
• The Oxford Dictionaries 2019 word is “climate emergency.”
• The UNDP examines steps the Middle East is taking to grow solar power and build resilience.
• The Amazon sees the largest deforestation rate this year in 11 years.
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• The World Economic Forum: What if we actually got things right with fixing climate change?
• Venice’s regional council floods for the first time — right after it voted against climate-crisis action.
• Greta Thunberg sails back to Europe on a catamaran, and leaves the US with some parting advice.
• Scientists are trying to study — and save — the Amazon rainforest, but the Brazilian government is trying to thwart them.
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• Virginia Democrats campaigned on fighting the climate crisis and won.
• The official word[s] of the year for 2019? “Climate strike.”
• New Zealand passes a law that sets 2050 as its net zero target year.
• An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island proves to be a popular fishing spot.
• Spain will host the UN climate talks in December after Chile withdraws.
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• Three reasons why wildfires are still ravaging California’s environment, despite the end of the drought.
• What’s an energy vampire, and how can you slay it?
• Greta Thunberg declines the Nordic Council’s 2019 environmental prize.
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk pays for 1 million trees to be planted.
• Big hotel chains are working to source their fish more sustainably.
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• Climate crisis protests in London: Extinction Rebellion, bans, and broccoli.
• Italy and Croatia team up to replenish the Adriatic Sea’s suffering fish population.
• Lobbying has to be part of corporate action when it comes to climate change.
• Five ways to construct buildings with resilience in the face of the climate crisis.
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• Jane Fonda arrested for climate crisis protest in Washington, DC.
• How to talk to your kids about the climate crisis.
• Cocaine isn’t just bad for your body — it’s also causing climate change.
• Japan buckles down yet again as Typhoon Hagibis is set to break violent-storm records.
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• Your morning coffee could become a luxury as Peruvian farms’ crops falter due to climate change.
• Climate crisis protesters in London spray fake blood with a fire hose — and it gets a little crazy.
• Sharks are swimming further north because of global warming.
• Increasing heat is making working conditions deadly for millions of people.
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• The UN-supported IPCC releases a somber report about the state of our oceans.
• Why do so many adults find teenage activist Greta Thunberg a threat?
• The Covering Climate Now media project wrapped up, with some outstanding work.
• Philadelphia airport may have a big problem with rising waters in the near future.
• Florida is holding an energy and climate summit — and not a moment too soon.
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