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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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Whales may play important but overlooked role in tackling climate crisis, researchers say | CNN

Whales may play important but overlooked role in tackling climate crisis, researchers say | CNN

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CNN — The largest whales in the world are more than just amazing creatures. Like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing carbon emissions that are warming the planet, researchers say. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & …

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‘Firmageddon’: Oregon conifers suffer record mortality as climate crisis hits hard

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Scientists have discovered a record number of dead fir trees in Oregon, a worrying sign of how drought and the climate crisis are ravaging the American West. A recent aerial survey revealed that more than a million acres of forest contain trees that have succumbed to stressors exacerbated by a multi-year drought. Images released by …

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'Early dark energy' could explain the crisis in cosmology

‘Early dark energy’ could explain the crisis in cosmology

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The cosmic distance scale, from the solar system to stars to nearby to distant galaxies, is used to measure the Hubble constant. Credit: NASA/ESA/A. Field (STScI)/A. Riess (JHU)) In 1916, Einstein completed his theory of general relativity, which describes how gravitational forces alter the curvature of spacetime. Among other things, this theory predicted that the …

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Transition to renewables continues to flounder amid climate crisis

Transition to renewables continues to flounder amid climate crisis

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Yahoo Finance columnist Rick Newman explains how the fight against climate change is impacting the energy crisis. Video transcript SEAN SMITH: The war on fossil fuels has intensified in recent years as the world focuses on ways to combat climate change. But these efforts wreak havoc when it comes to producing the energy people need, …

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The Replication Crisis: Researchers Reveal a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty

The Replication Crisis: Researchers Reveal a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty

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Wide variation in results from 73 teams testing the same hypothesis with the same data. The distribution of estimated AMEs across all converged models (n=1,253) includes negative (yellow; in the direction predicted by the given hypothesis the teams were testing), non-zero (grey), or positive (blue) results. using a 95% CI. MEAs are xy-normalized. The y-axis …

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Essential COP15 reading: six books that explain the biodiversity crisis

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The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen Chosen by Patrick Barkham Imagine a beautiful Persian rug 12 feet by 18 feet. Now imagine wielding a razor-sharp hunting knife and cutting it into 36 equal pieces. When you’re done cutting, there’s still nearly 216 square feet of recognizable things like rugs. But are they beautiful …

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Wildlife numbers are down 69% - here's how we can solve this crisis

Wildlife numbers are down 69% – here’s how we can solve this crisis

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This summer has been the hottest on record in Europe, with scorching heat waves and wildfires accelerating emissions to a 15-year high. Kenya is suffering its worst drought in over 40 years while Pakistan grapples with devastating floods, killing thousands and displacing millions. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has reached its highest level …

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