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Study shows that climate change is really bad for your health

Along with climate-killing CO2, there are a lot of people-killing pollutants. Perhaps we should change our message.




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Trump may use climate change funds to build his wall

Trump would rather keep humans out of the country than saltwater.




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Why is there such a disconnect between climate reality and climate action?

How can we be moving away from fossil fuels and spending billions on building pipes for them at the same time?




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Red meat may be taxed in Denmark to fight climate change

Climate change has become an ethical issue in the eyes of the Danish Council for Ethics, which suggested last week that the government consider a tax on beef, and eventually all foods depending on climate impact.




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Methane impact on global climate change 25% greater than previously estimated

Carbon dioxide continues as the main concern, but we ignore methane at our own risk




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Solving global dietary problems is a bigger challenge than climate change, scientist says

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."




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Two cute videos teach kids about climate change and smog

Explaining climate science to kids is challenging, which is why clever animated videos can help.




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3 climate change policies that no one's talking about

The U.N. just came up with some climate change solutions, and none of them are "expect techy solutions to pull us out."




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Decarbonization must treble to keep up with climate change

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.




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What is the impact of meat on climate?

A comprehensive look at why it is a problem, and who is fighting change.




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Climate change is bad for world peace

A study from Stanford University reveals the interconnectedness of politics and the environment.




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Europe is warming faster than climate models projected

More than 90 percent of weather stations studied showed the climate was warming, a percentage too high to purely be from natural climate variability, say researchers




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Children file complaint of rights violation over climate crisis

Delivered to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the group of 16 alleges that climate crisis inaction constitutes a violation of child rights.




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New Zealand schools to teach kids about climate change

Updated curriculum will help them to navigate the emotions associated with the climate crisis.




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Melting icebergs may help slow climate change

By 'fertilizing the oceans,' icebergs are actually helping to sequester more carbon. But that doesn't mean we should keep on polluting.




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Climate change could reduce Adélie penguin populations

Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.




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How our thinking changed in 2019: recycling and plastics

We are now prisoners of the petrochemical industry.




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How plastics add to the climate crisis

They are basically solid fossil fuels, putting out as much as 6 kg of CO2 for every kg of plastic.




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Here's a handy guide to plastics recycling

Made by NPR, it explains what's recyclable, what becomes trash, and why.




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Why we all need to stop 'wishcycling'

Some things were never meant to go in the blue bin.




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Internet Killing Print Media: Up-Cycling Paper Mills Could Make Digital Communications Greener

Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the




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Climate change is a bigger threat than coronavirus, says UN Secretary General

Don't let a passing crisis, serious though it is, distract you from the real fight.




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Climate change protestors ask fashion industry to "stop business as usual"

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.




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4 reasons to repair instead of recycling or replacing

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.




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Recycling is broken: California's rePlanet shuts all its recycling centers

We have long called for deposits on everything. California shows that even that is not enough.




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Transition City Bristol: Tackling Climate change and Peak Oil with Community Planning

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,




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Dramatic Projections Bring Climate Change Impacts Home

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art




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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical




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Two dead because trucks don't have side guards and cyclists apparently can't stay upright

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.




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Czech President & Climate Denier Vaclav Klaus To Preside Over EU In 2009

Just when we thought there was a chance for a rationalist US Administration to mesh with the Climate-action oriented EU and with an increasingly open-minded China...[Vaclav] Klaus has called man-made global




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Celebrating Safer Cycling in Prague

Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was "only for the brave," as an article for Radio Prague put




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Advice for when your kid asks about the climate crisis

It's a conversation most parents don't want to have, but it's necessary.




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British architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.




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How design decisions on materials are "disproportionately damning the world to further climate change"

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.




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Meet America's first climate refugees

The people of Newtok, Alaska are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.




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Melting ice and rising seas will make Alaskan villagers America's first climate refugees

Adapting to climate change is going to affect the lives of every human on Earth. But for some those impacts are hitting a little sooner and a little harder than they are for others.




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Snow & cold no excuse — a warm climate doesn't increase bicycle ridership

We've all heard it — "this city" or "that city" has more bicyclists because it has warmer weather. Looks like it's time to retire that statement.




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The Agile City: Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change (Book Review)

There has been a profound change in the green movement over the last five years, the realization that solar panels on the roof and bamboo sheets on the bed are not enough; that where you live matters far more.




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Join Author James Russell for a Discussion of Urban Planning and Climate Change

This month, BookHugger presents The Agile City by James S. Russell. Readers can order a discounted copy today and watch a recording of the live discussion above.




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'Being the Change: A New Kind of Climate Documentary' (review)

A follow-up to the book by the same name, this intriguing film shows how one American family has weaned itself off fossil fuels.




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This book makes it easier to talk to kids about climate change

With a topic this complicated, parents need all the help they can get.




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Scientists propose a bucolic vision of bikes, local food and a bit of democratic socialism to solve climate change

Other websites shriek "the end of capitalism" but really, it is hardly that.




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Bank of England Governor: Companies that ignore climate crisis will go bankrupt

Are we about to have a "Minsky Moment"?




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Total solar eclipse as seen from the Arctic

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.




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Norway's extreme reindeer are eating seaweed to cope with climate change

Svalbard's wild reindeer are surviving warmer winters by foraging on, yes, seaweed.




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Ice Watch is Olafur Eliasson's visual reminder of climate change

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."




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Mild Buenos Aires Climate of the Fertile Pampas Turning Tropical

Average temperatures in the city have rose 1.8˚C, minimal temperatures went up 2.7˚C, and rainfall has increased 20% in the past 50 years.




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The Story of a Train Crash in Buenos Aires and What it Has to Do with Climate Action

An account of the events that led to the accident that killed 51 and injured 703 in Argentina and why its symbolism matters.




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Did climate change cause the Alberta flooding?

Nobody can say for certain. But that doesn't mean that the Conservative politicians have to deny it.




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How to dress for bicycling in Canada: In body armour

In a world where we are supposed to make it easier for people to get on bikes, some are determined to scare everybody off them.