In most cases, electrifying cars reduces their emissions
Today, road transport is responsible for 15% of the world’s total CO2 emissions. If we replace fossil-fuel-powered combustion vehicles with…
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Mostly accuratePrioritizing plant-based foods in our diet can benefit climate and health, but Forbes article missed some key details
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Prioritizing plant-based foods and reducing overconsumption of animal-based protein is healthier and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
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MisleadingBjorn Lomborg’s claims about polar bears, coral, and cold deaths ignore scientists’ predictions of climate-change-affected futures
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Despite climate change, the global polar-bear population has increased substantially, the Great Barrier Reef has more coral cover than at any point since 1986, and extreme-heat deaths have declined.
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Climate change and its impacts on the water cycle; how can it increase both droughts and heavy downpours?
If your tap ran dry and stores closed down, where would you get your freshwater? Water is essential to human…
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AccurateAtmospheric CO2 concentrations rising faster today than the last 50,000 years, as accurately claimed in recent social media posts
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CO2 concentrations are increasing in Earth’s atmosphere faster than they have in the last 50,000 years.
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From vibrant corals to white skeletons: climate change and looming existential threats to coral reefs
Coral reefs and their ecosystems serve important roles on Earth – they flourish with biodiversity, providing habitat to 25% of…
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Sea-level rise: to mitigate or adapt? Experts say we need to do both.
Roughly 900 million people lived in low-lying coastal cities and settlements in 2020; a figure that is projected to reach 1 billion by 2050. Is there anything we can do now to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts? Our past actions will already impact sea-levels for thousands of years. But not everything is set in stone. We possess the power to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts over the next century and beyond with our current actions. Some advocate to mitigate the causes, and others to adapt to the consequences. But what do experts say?
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InaccurateSea levels have risen for over 100 years, despite misleading photos shared on social media
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Sea-level rise is not occurring or showing any impacts, based on photographic evidence.
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Farmers’ Protests Weaponized to Spread Climate Misinformation, Report Finds
Farmers’ protests in several European countries have been weaponized to spread false or misleading claims to discredit political action against climate change and fuel deep-seated distrust towards the European Union, according to a report on climate disinformation related to the protests.
