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France Is on the Brink of Banning Domestic Short-Haul Flights
People took fewer flights amid the covid-19 pandemic, which helped to lower carbon pollution from aviation by roughly 60%. Now, France is trying to make some of that reduction permanent.
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Americans Are Already Deciding Where to Move Based on Climate Change
Having been a “climate person” for the past decade-plus has been pretty damn exhausting. Every single choice I make has involved agonising over the environmental ramifications. But as the climate crisis has become impossible to ignore, more and more people are doing the same, including making decisions to move based on sea level rise and…
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First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News
Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research shows that things aren’t looking good for it.
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Shell Is Back, Baby 🙁
After more than a year of covid-19 lockdowns, there’s — dare I say — a feeling of hope in the air. Yes, things are far from over, but millions of people are getting vaccinated and it’s starting to seem like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Well, sorry to ruin things slightly,…