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JULY 28, 2022: Aerial view of homes submerged under flood waters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky. Flash flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least eight people in eastern Kentucky and left some residents stranded on rooftops and in trees, the governor of the south-central U.S. state said.

What are the effects of climate change? The climate crisis is fueling disasters

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Climate change is real and its effects are creating a climate crisis. Weather, wildlife, food supplies and other aspects of daily life are all affected by the effects of climate change. As global average temperatures continue to rise around the world, the United States has experienced greater warming than many other countries. Climate change makes …

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5 things we’ve learned this year about climate change and what they mean for SI

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STATEN ISLAND, NY – The Earth has warmed more than 1 degree Celsius since the mid-19th century, a steady increase fueled by human-caused emissions that scientists predict will cause spiraling impacts in the decades to come who have already started to make a presence. The mechanisms behind this increase – greenhouse gas emissions primarily from …

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'It's a selfless act': How climate change may impact the decision to have children - ABC Everyday

‘It’s a selfless act’: How climate change may impact the decision to have children – ABC Everyday

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Australia’s fertility rate is falling. Concern about climate change is one of the many reasons people choose to have fewer children, if at all. Experts say fewer babies born can have a positive impact on the environment, although there are negative implications associated with rapidly aging populations. While some people are determined to go childless …

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Climate change affects Christmas trees in BC and beyond: expert - BC News

Climate change affects Christmas trees in BC and beyond: expert – BC News

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Photo: The Canadian Press A plot of land on the Sahtlam Tree Farm in the Cowichan Valley region of Duncan, British Columbia The effects of climate change are wreaking havoc on Christmas tree farms in British Columbia and beyond, with a forestry expert saying the already shrinking and changing sector will need to adapt in …

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Fusion technology reaches a turning point that could change the energy game

Fusion technology reaches a turning point that could change the energy game

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Our society faces the great challenge of providing sustainable, safe and affordable ways to generate energy while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, fusion energy developments, which potentially tick all of these boxes, have been funded almost exclusively by the public sector. However, something is changing. Private equity …

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A plan to save the planet: a new book on climate change summarizes three years of research by the Manhattan Project 2

A plan to save the planet: a new book on climate change summarizes three years of research by the Manhattan Project 2

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today announced the completion of three years of research by The manhattan 2 Project, a non-profit organization that studies how to solve climate change in a least-cost and politically feasible way. Cover of the book “A plan to save the planet”. The results are consolidated in a new …

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Maggie Phelan poses at the Cape Cod 5 bank headquarters on Wednesday. She chose to work at the bank because of its climate change policies and benefits.

Young workers prefer to work for companies with climate change policies

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BOSTON — Despite a labor shortage that is driving businesses to desperate for hire and an economy that is wreaking havoc on bank accounts, young people are increasingly hesitant — or outright reluctant — to work for a company that doesn’t has no climate-friendly policies. The cultural shift in attitudes from those of previous generations …

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Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts

Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts

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CGV | Visual Group China | Getty Images It’s not just cars that will experience the energy transition in the years to come. The parking lots where electric vehicles charge are the subject of increasing construction efforts linked to climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions. A law approved in France last month requires …

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Quantum entanglement: how Lady Gaga, Jim Carrey and Steve Jobs used this force to change their lives

Quantum entanglement: how Lady Gaga, Jim Carrey and Steve Jobs used this force to change their lives

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We are powerful beyond belief. There is a force of energy that connects us; powerful electromagnetic waves pass through us at all times. Sometimes, if our hearts and minds are aligned, we can catch a riptide carrying us to the edge of human achievement, beyond what we thought possible – an unstoppable force of creation …

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Change the color of quantum light on an embedded chip

Change the color of quantum light on an embedded chip

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Changing the color of single photons using an integrated phase modulator. Credit: Loncar Lab/Harvard SEAS Optical photons are ideal carriers of quantum information. But to work together in a quantum computer or network, they must have the same color (or frequency) and the same bandwidth. Changing the frequency of a photon requires changing its energy, …

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