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Greenhouse gas

You cannot rely on food producers to put food labels on products in a sufficient enough manner to describe what you’re actually buying, and — in…
Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difficult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of…
The participants at the Paris climate change conference saw themselves produce “an agreement hailed as ‘historic, durable and ambitious’”and “the world’s greatest diplomatic success,” according…
Climate change is on a fast track, a surprisingly fast, very fast track. As such, it’s entirely possible that humanity may be facing the shock…
What if you found out that just four commodities—commodities so pervasive in modern life that we encounter them daily—are responsible for more than half of…
Trillions of dollars of non-bank financial assets around the world are vulnerable to the effects of global warming, according to a study on Mondaythat says tougher…
A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most…
Climate change is hard for people to understand or take seriously because its FUTURE impacts will be so vast in scale and intensity. It would…
Last December, officials representing more than 190 countries met in Paris to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The historic outcome from that…
Global warming is, in the end, not about the noisy political battles here on the planet’s surface. It actually happens in constant, silent interactions in…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the climate arm of the United Nations, said on Monday that climate change is occurring at an "alarming rate" and…
The latest temperature data have broken all records (image from "think progress"). At best, this is an especially large oscillation and the climate system will…