Maddie Stone
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Let’s All Take A Breath And Read That ‘Hothouse Earth’ Paper
If the past year of floods, fires, heat waves and droughts are any indicator, climate change is going to be rough. But in case you weren’t already alarmed, a team of prominent climate scientists has penned a paper warning that just 2C of human-caused warming could send us spiralling toward a “hothouse Earth” — one…
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Climate Change Is Erasing Human History
UTQIAĠVIK, ALASKA – On a crumbling heap of thousand-year-old garbage overlooking a leaden sea, Anne Jensen shakes her head disapprovingly. A gust of Arctic air whips her hair around her face as she scrutinises the beige house perched 18m above us, atop an Iñupiat archaeological site that’s fast eroding into the ocean.
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Puerto Rico Remains Mostly In The Dark And Badly In Need Of Aid
Sometimes, space offers a striking vantage for visualising the scale of a crisis. Satellite photos of Puerto Rico at night before and after Hurricane Maria roared through show an island stripped of its electricity — and they remind us just how long it’s going to take the battered US territory to recover.
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The Everglades Took A Beating From Hurricane Irma
Wracks of seagrass deposited along Northwest Cape Sable after Hurricane Irma tore through earlier in the week. Image: Steve Davis Floridians were spared the brunt of Hurricane Irma’s destructive power last week, when the storm instead took direct aim at some of the most pristine sections of the Everglades. Early reports from scientists suggest that…