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“Radical action” needed to reach climate goals

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 05 April 2022 in Climate Change

By Frank Jordans The Associated Press BERLIN » The world must take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing $5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure that global warming doesn’t pass dangerous thresholds,...

Can the Winter Olympics Survive Climate Change?

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 in Climate Change

Only six of the previous Winter Olympics host cities will be cold enough to reliably host the Games by the end of this century if global warming projections prove accurate, a new Waterloo study has found. Even with conservative climate projections, only 11 of the previous 19 sites could host the Ga...

Russian Fishing Threatens Antarctic Marine Reserve

Posted by bjb41 on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

A vote on Tuesday on whether to declare a marine protection area over an Antarctic body of water seven times the size of Germany is hanging in the balance due to Russian and Ukrainian fishing interests, the head of a European delegation to the talks has told EurActiv. Representatives of 25 countrie...