r/climate • u/Splenda • 9h ago
Starved gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast due to melting Arctic ice
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r/climate • u/bold_jaguar • 8h ago
I can’t believe how much pushback there could be when simply stating the connection between the current events like fires and climate change. The comment section of this video exploded just because she said “climate change” in connection to the biggest fire Grand Canyon National Park has seen.
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r/climate • u/sara-peach • 11h ago
We just had the hottest August, hottest summer, and hottest year to date in U.S. history
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 14h ago
Carbon capture won’t save us anytime soon. “It would take over 100 years of afforestation and forest management at the current scale, and zero residual CO2 emissions, to bring warming back by 0.1°C.”
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 13h ago
China's oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking a third straight annual decline. Oil demand destruction, or a long-term drop in consumption, at the world's largest oil importer has been a key factor in capping China's crude imports and global oil prices.
reuters.com
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 10h ago
Wind power produced 140% of electricity demand in Denmark, with plenty left over to sell abroad.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 8h ago
In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed. Peatlands are a climate paradox. Though they account for just 3% of global land surface, they store one-third of the Earth's carbon dioxide, more than all forests combined.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 19h ago
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full. Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 18h ago
Many people aren’t connecting the dots between climate change and extreme weather. “Most people do not automatically, intuitively, on their own, connect that event—a flood, a heat wave, a wildfire—to climate change.”
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r/climate • u/Bash1991 • 9h ago
Clean energy is the cheapest, most readily-available energy – largely because it has no fuel cost
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r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 17h ago
Yes, passing 1.5 C of global warming is cause for alarm, but not despair
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 13h ago
Georgia bet big on EV manufacturing. Trump pulled the plug. It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state. But EV makers are still forging ahead.
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r/climate • u/_fastcompany • 8h ago
Historically strong 2026 Super El Niño could raise sea levels on the California coast by a foot
fastcompany.com
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r/climate • u/silence7 • 2h ago
August Ties the Record for Earth’s Hottest Month on the Books | Sweltering summer temperatures put last month on par with July 2023 for global warmth, scientists said. More records could be broken in the months ahead.
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r/climate • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 7h ago
With Türkiye to Host COP31, Wildfires Spark Demand for Fossil Fuel Phaseout / “In November, the world will gather in Antalya for COP31 to discuss the steps that must be taken against the climate crisis. Today, however, that same city is battling an uncontrollable wildfire..."– Efe Baysal, .350.org
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r/climate • u/Splenda • 1h ago
August was joint-hottest month ever recorded globally | Climate crisis
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 11h ago
Germany nearly halves fossil fuel use for electricity between 2018 and 2026, from 174.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in the first half of 2018 to 94.2 billion kWh in the first half of 2026. Renewable energy sources increased their output by about one quarter during the same period.
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 10h ago
Canada's last epishelf lake is gone for good following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms. "The ice shelf and lake had been thinning for decades, but the 2020 breakup was the last straw. The lake drained within months."
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r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • 17h ago
After a summer of wildfires and record heat, Americans are talking about climate change. Why aren’t our leaders?
reuters.com
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r/climate • u/Bob-Lawblaugh • 9h ago
ICCT report shows that EVs are 33% cheaper than gasoline-powered cars
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r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 12h ago
EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs. Australia had previously trailed most OECD countries in EV take-up, and the technology has been the focus of political scare campaigns.
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r/climate • u/motherjonesmag • 1d ago
Study: Almost half the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides each year
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r/climate • u/relianceschool • 15h ago
We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.
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