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A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 25, 2024 thru Sat, August 31, 2024.
Story of the week
After another crammed week of climate news including updates on climate tipping points, increasing threats from rising seas...
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Is recent global warmin...
Open access notables
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades, Larocca et al., The Cryosphere:
We mapped the snowline (SL) on a subset of 269 land-terminating glaciers above 60° N latitude in the latest available summer, clear-sky Landsat satellite image between 1984 an...
This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any).
Coral reefs are in hot water... literally. Climate change is ramping up temperatures, causing increasing bleachin...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Osha Davidson
For 20 years now, Ken Nedimyer has been strapping on his scuba gear and diving into the waters off the Florida coast in a desperate effort to restore coral reefs that have been decimated by climate change and pollution. In 2019, he founde...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
At a Republican presidential debate in 2023, several candidates articulated a common sentiment about whose climate policies really matter.
“If you want to go and really change the environment, then we need to start telling China and India that they hav...