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News Articles: climate

Activists threw soup at a Van Gogh painting in London. They were protesting new oil and gas production.

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  • Climate

Who is Just Stop Oil, the group that threw soup on Van Gogh's painting?

Just Stop Oil has been in the spotlight after its demonstration in which protesters threw soup at a Van Gogh painting. The coalition is demanding an end to new fossil fuel production in the U.K.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Halisia Hubbard
Cattle graze near a fire in Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 22. A new report analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

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  • Environment

Animal populations shrank an average of 69% over the last half-century, a report says

A new report from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London analyzed years of data on wildlife populations across the world and found a downward trend in the Earth's biodiversity.

October 15, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A handout photo issued by the group Just Stop Oil shows two protesters who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work <em>Sunflowers</em> at the National Gallery in London on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The San Vicente reservoir in San Diego County stores water from as far away as the Colorado River. Pumping water into a smaller reservoir in the surrounding mountains could store excess solar power until it's needed, when the sun sets.

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  • Climate

'Water batteries' could store solar and wind power for when it's needed

San Diego has an ambitious plan to store renewable energy, using extra solar power to pump water up a mountain. This old-style "water battery" technology could be set for a revival.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Dan Charles
An old hotel is submerged by rising water levels in Lake Baringo in Kampi ya Samaki, Kenya on July 20, 2022.

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  • Climate

Developing nations suffering from climate change will demand financial help

The chairperson of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming U.N. climate summit has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">website</a>.

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  • Arts & Life

An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows

This year's MacArthur Fellows include scientists, artists and historians. The so-called MacArthur "geniuses" receive unrestricted grants of $800,000 for their "exceptional creativity" and "promise."

October 13, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
"Wrecked shrimp boats and other vessels littered the waterfront on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, FL, one week after Hurricane Ian made landfall.

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  • Climate

Shutting an agency managing sprawl might have put more people in Hurricane Ian's way

More than a decade ago, growth in Florida was managed under a statewide agency that provided checks and balances to prevent sprawl and protect natural resources. Then state leaders closed it.

October 09, 2022
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By:
  • Jenny Staletovich and
  • Nick Underwood
A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Julia, bottom right, at 4 p.m. EDT. Julia is gaining strength heading westward in the southern Caribbean.

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  • Weather

Hurricane Julia heads for Nicaragua after passing Colombian island

The storm is forecast to dump heavy rains across Central America.

October 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mike Ancona is operations manager for Vicinity Energy's co-generation plant.

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  • Climate

'Steam loops' under many cities could be a climate change solution

"Steam loops" under hundreds of U.S. cities and universities have warmed buildings for a century. Now they could become a climate change solution.

October 07, 2022
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  • Susan Phillips
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says international development banks need new strategies to help countries finance the transition to low-carbon sources of energy like this rooftop solar project in Jordan.

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  • Climate

Yellen says development banks need overhauling to deal with global challenges

Development banks need new strategies to address problems that cut across national borders, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Copley
DeSoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso turns his airboat around before heading out to help hurricane survivors stranded on newly-created islands brought on by the flooding Peace River.

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  • National

When flooding from Ian trapped one Florida town, an airboat navy came to the rescue

After Hurricane Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands.

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
An aerial view of icebergs and the ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland.

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  • Climate

How glaciers melted 20,000 years ago may offer clues about climate change's effects

New research out of the British Antarctic Survey found thousands of underground channels left by ice age glacial melt. The findings could improve the accuracy of modern-day models of sea level rise.

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

One of Kenya's luckier farmers tells why so many farmers there are out of luck

Erratic weather is just one problem. Many farmers can no longer keep pace with the rising cost of fuel and fertilizer (which previously has been largely imported from Ukraine). What's the solution?

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Michael Kaloki
This is one of several leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines running between Russia and Germany. Methane from the leaks could have a powerful warming effect on the Earth's atmosphere.

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  • Climate

The Nord Stream pipelines have stopped leaking. But the methane emitted broke records

The Nord Stream pipeline leak might be the single largest release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Experts say it pales in comparison to ongoing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Laura Benshoff
President Biden promised to help Puerto Rico rebuild after being hammered by Hurricane Fiona two weeks ago. He also announced more than $60 million in aid to help coastal areas be better prepared for future storms.

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  • Weather

Biden is in Puerto Rico to see what the island needs to recover

President Biden visited Puerto Rico, where he promised to ensure the U.S territory is better prepared for future storms.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
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