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A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 21, 2024 thru Sat, April 27, 2024.
Story of the week
Anthropogenic climate change may be the ultimate shaggy dog story— but with a twist, because here endless subplots definitel...
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Is Antarctica gainin...
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This year you will be lied to! Simon Clark helps prebunk some misleading statements you'll hear about climate...
Open access notables
Ice acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades, Løkkegaard et al., Communications Earth & Environment:
In the past two decades, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated, partly due to the speedup of glaciers. However, uncertaint...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Megan Valére Sosou
Market gardening site of the Itchèléré de Itagui agricultural cooperative in Dassa-Zoumè (Image credit: Megan Valère Sossou)
For the residents of Dassa-Zoumè, a city in the West African country of Benin, choosing between drinkin...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump...