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Tracking toward mass extinction

May 14, 2024

Tracking toward mass extinction Where “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell) and when drilling methane wells reduces global warming Having turned a blind eye to climate science, ignoring the evidence that extreme atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄) rise and ocean acidification have led to mass extinctions of species through time, humanity allows an […]

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Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene

October 24, 2019

Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene Examples of how human societies are changing the planet abound – from building roads and houses, clearing forests for agriculture and digging train tunnels, to shrinking the ozone layer, driving species extinct, changing the climate and acidifying the oceans. […]

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Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals

February 21, 2018

Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals The world’s oceans could become “uninhabitable” for cold-water corals by the end of the century as a result of ocean acidification, research suggests. Ocean acidification, which occurs as seawater takes up CO2 from the atmosphere, could threaten around 70% of cold-water coral living below 1,500 metres in […]

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Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm

April 7, 2016

Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm The snapping shrimp is the noisiest marine creature in coastal ecosystems. Image: Tullio Ross/University of Adelaide The effect of the sea absorbing increased carbon dioxide in the air has damaging consequences for the noisy snapping shrimp and marine life in coastal rock pools. LONDON, 6 April, 2016 – The slow change in water […]

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Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy

June 25, 2015

Sustainability Metrics, Growth Limits, and Philanthropy As the metrics of sustainability become ever more robust and sophisticated, it is ever more apparent to many of us who study those metrics that industrial civilization, as currently configured, is unsustainable. Ecological footprint analysis tells us that we are presently using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources annually. We […]

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Who Stands To Benefit From Climate Change?

November 6, 2014

Who Stands To Benefit From Climate Change?. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their synthesis report Sunday, Nov. 2nd. The report combines the Panel’s past work and reiterates the near unanimity in the scientific community regarding the man-made role in global climate change. Still, public and political perception is very much divided and […]

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