Tag: Climate Change
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Nonprofit wireless provider warns the most vulnerable to extreme heat, bad air
[ad_1] There’s been a major tool in recent decades in limiting fatalities and greater property damage when it comes to natural disasters and extreme weather, including the soaring temperatures that have cooked the U.S. and parts of the world this summer. That tool? Much better and timely communication. And that means reliable mobile devices and…
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Opinion: ‘Oppenheimer’ gives investors another reason to be bullish about nuclear energy
[ad_1] One of the hottest movies of the summer is the staggeringly good biopic “Oppenheimer,” about the man who oversaw the frantic race to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug 6, 1945 was a fission-style device. This also happens to be the same basic…
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Already roasting in extreme heat? 2024 could be even hotter, NASA scientists warn
[ad_1] Heat records have been shattered from California to Florida this summer. And, yes, it is summer and summer is hot. If 2023 already feels like one for the record books, 2024 won’t bring any relief, NASA scientists said this week. Unprecedented heat has cooked the U.S. Southwest to dangerous levels, stressed air-conditioning reliability and…
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New York City has the worst air quality in the world right now
[ad_1] New York City has ranked as either the top or second most polluted city in the world Wednesday, changing places with Delhi, India, for the dubious honor. New York, in a twist of weather fate, is the recipient of drifting wildfire smoke from what’s shaping up to be the worst fire season in Canada’s…
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Fungi remove a third of fossil-fuel emissions and maybe more
[ad_1] The role of a vast network of underground fungi can suck up roughly one-third of the Earth-warming carbon emissions that burning coal, oil and gas puts off each year. It’s an amount previously unknown and that potentially can be expanded, a team of researchers said Monday. Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to13…
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10 Earth Day actions beyond recycling that get results
[ad_1] Officially, it’s a single day on the calendar every year — Earth Day, each April 22. By now, nearly every industry — from fast-food chains to grocery stores to cosmetics lines and luxury autos — along with dozens of tree-loving, plastic-banning nonprofits, are part of a week or month’s worth of promotions and education…