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Study: Climate change could threaten insects in Missouri

A recent study indicates that climate change could threaten hundreds of insect species in Missouri that may not recover after they die during extreme weather conditions. A 2019 study by the University of Missouri at St. Louis examined 250 insect …
Catastrophic Flooding
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Hurricane Dorian August 2019

Hurricane Dorian is the fifth Atlantic hurricane in four years to reach Category 5 strength and is one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Dorian made its initial landfall at Elbow Cay, Abacos, in the Bahamas …
Hurricanes
Extreme Weather, Science

Infographics: Climate Change and Hurricanes

Infographics and videos below are available for download and re-publication. Please credit Climate Signals. Human‐caused climate change is supercharging hurricanes and exacerbating the risk of major damage in three primary ways. Sea level rise elevates and extends the reach of coastal …
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China

Sources Cumulative National Emissions Rankings (2014) 6 Graphs Explain the World’s Top 10 Emitters, World Resources Institute GHG per capita rankings, GHG per capita (2011) CAIT 2.0, World Resources Institute CO2 per capita rankings, CO2 per capita (2013) Global Carbon Atlas China has made several announcements this …

Wildfire
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2016 Wildfire Season

According to the US National Academy of Sciences, over the past 30 years, there has been a fourfold increase in the number of large and long-duration forest fires in the American West. The length of the fire season has expanded by 2.5 months, and the size of wildfires has increased several times over. More than half the US Western states have experienced their largest wildfire on record since 2000.

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Trudeau’s Election Ushers in a New Era for Canada’s Climate Policies

The US-Canada released a joint statement outlining Obama and Trudeau’s shared vision on climate policy. Here are some top takeaways: The EPA will begin the process of regulating existing sources of methane for the first time, working towards cutting methane emissions by 40 to 45 …
Tipping Points
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Ice Sheet Tipping Points

Pushing global temperatures past these thresholds can trigger irreversible changes even if we do not add any further CO2 to the atmosphere. These changes may be abrupt or may take hundreds of years, but once the threshold is passed they cannot be reversed.

Fort McMurray
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Fort McMurray Fire

Alberta declared a state of emergency and ordered the evacuation of the more than 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray, a town in the heart of Alberta’s oil country, as a first responders struggle to contain a massive, wind-whipped wildfire.