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Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere.

Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-record

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Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrunk so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.

Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/venezuela-loses-its-last-glacier-as-it-shrinks-down-to-an-ice-field?CMP=share_btn_url

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How One South African Community Stopped Shell Oil in Its Tracks.

Activist Nonhle Mbuthuma founded a local organization along South Africa’s Wild Coast to fight a proposed strip mine 17 years ago. Despite ongoing personal threats, she’s still working to protect her Pondoland community from oil exploration and other harmful development.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/nonhle-mbuthuma-interview

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2024 sees record start to year for electric vehicle sales.

Over 100,000 battery electric vehicles sold between January and April.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/electric-vehicles-uk-sales-price-b2540169.html

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Shell has sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits based on emissions savings that never happened, according to a new investigation.

Shell made more than $200 million dollars selling the credits from its flagship carbon capture facility called 'Quest'.

Canadian taxpayers covered 93% of the costs of building the 'Quest' carbon capture project.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/07/false-promises-and-phantom-emissions-how-was-shell-able-to-double-its-carbon-credits-in-ca

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Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report.

Exclusive: By the middle of the century, pollution from plastic industry could ‘undermine world’s effort’ to control climate crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/plastic-production-emission-climate-crisis

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Researchers find toxic DDT compounds in deep-sea fish off Los Angeles coast.

A toxic agricultural insecticide banned four decades ago is still contaminating deep-sea fish and sediments off California’s southern coast, a new study has found.

While the U.S. banned DDT in 1972, the study authors believe the substance is continuing to invade marine food webs.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4646315-toxic-ddt-compounds-deep-sea-fish-los-angeles-coast-study/

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Drought is driving olive oil prices to staggering new heights.

The cost of olives has spent the last two years skyrocketing because of climate change.

https://qz.com/olive-oil-prices-climate-change-1851458811

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How do scientists know how much climate change affects a hurricane, a heat wave, a drought, and more?

The field of attribution science is 20 years old this year, and scientists’ ability to detect the fingerprints of climate change in extreme weather events is growing stronger.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/how-do-scientists-know-how-much-climate-change-affects-a-hurricane-a-heat-wave-a-drought-and-more/

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Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses.

A new report highlights more than 400 allegations against mining companies operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, home to large deposits of minerals used in low-carbon technologies.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06052024/eastern-europe-central-asia-critical-mineral-mining-rights-abuse/

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Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes.

Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371 million lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/tyson-foods-toxic-pollutants-lakes-rivers

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Meet the Beautiful, Remarkable Tree That Survived 9/11.

After a month under rubble, a nearly lifeless tree was found by 9/11 workers who were determined to save it.

https://www.treehugger.com/meet-beautiful-remarkable-tree-survived-4856725

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Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits.

Carbon Credit subsidy scheme in Alberta, Canada allowed oil major to register carbon credits equivalent to twice the volume of CO₂ captured.

https://www.ft.com/content/93938a1b-dc36-4ea6-9308-170189be0cb0

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Companies Legally Use Poison to Make Your Decaf Coffee.

And they are fighting every effort to ban it.

https://newrepublic.com/post/181229/companies-poison-decaf-coffee

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Gas stove emissions increasing childhood asthma rates, adult deaths: Stanford study.

Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4641542-gas-stove-emissions-childhood-asthma-rates-adult-deaths-stanford-study/

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How kelp farms, an 'environmental powerhouse,' can help mitigate climate change.

Kelp can help to fortify the environment amid warming temperatures.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kelp-farms-environmental-powerhouse-mitigate-climate-change/story?id=109824230

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Baby bumblebees are dying in nests and climate change is to blame.

From the Arctic to the tropics, bumblebees maintain the same nest temperature preferences.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/bumblebee-babies-dying-climate-change

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How a Group of Elderly Swiss Women Charted a New Path for Climate Legislation.

https://time.com/6972924/climate-change-legislation-switzerland/

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Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.

https://grist.org/science/coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-tipping-point/

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The Carbon Footprint of Major Travel Methods.

Did you know that transport accounts for nearly one-quarter of global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions?

This graphic illustrates the carbon footprints of major travel methods measured in grams of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emitted per person.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-carbon-footprint-of-major-travel-methods/

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Plastic is climate change in a bottle – so let’s put a cap on it.

https://theconversation.com/plastic-is-climate-change-in-a-bottle-so-lets-put-a-cap-on-it-229033

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What the Hell Are “Plastic Offsets”?

The plastics industry’s latest ploy to continue filling the world with junk.

https://newrepublic.com/article/181204/plastic-offsets-credits-recycling

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Pro-Trump Online Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe.

The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times.

The Epoch Times is being investigated by the UK advertising regulator for “stoking the climate culture war” on social media.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/03/epoch-times-climate-science-denial-adverts-europe-uk/

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Hundreds of thousands of fish die in Vietnam as Asia swelters in searing Climate Change heat.

Southeast and South Asian nations are going through a “historic” heatwave.

“Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,” says weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/vietnam-heatwave-asia-fish-die-off-b2538386.html

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Coastal hurricanes are intensifying faster due to climate change.

Since 1979, coastal hurricanes around the world have been intensifying faster and they’re only going to get worse thanks to climate change.

https://www.earth.com/news/coastal-hurricanes-are-intensifying-faster-due-to-climate-change/

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