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Scientists come closer to solving Caribbean seaweed mystery

September 29, 20211110 Views

Scientists were baffled when a band of seaweed longer than the entire Brazilian coastline sprouted in 2011 in the tropical Atlantic - an area typically lacking nutrients that would feed such growth. A group of U.S. researchers has fingered a prime suspect: human sewage and agricultural runoff carried by rivers to the ocean. The science is not yet definitive. This nutrient-charged outflow is just one of several likely culprits fueling an explosion of seaweed in warm waters of the Americas. Six scientists told Reuters they suspect a complex mix of climate change, Amazon rainforest destruction and dust blowing west from Africa’s Sahara Desert may be fueling mega-blooms of the dark-brown seaweed known as sargassum. A beach covered with sargassum is pictured near a hotel in Cancun, Me...

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Italy’s ‘Smart Bay’ seeks to tackle Mediterranean climate change

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September 27, 20211515 Views

On Italy's Ligurian coast, biologists and environmentalists are working to tackle the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean with help from a so-called "Smart Bay". Marine biologists fear the Mediterranean is becoming hotter and more acidic, which would affect the habitat of many native species and also lead to violent changes in weather systems such as more frequent tornadoes. The Santa Teresa Smart Bay, in an area on the northwestern coast noted for tourism and diving, is Italy's first underwater "living" laboratory where scientists use aquatic invertebrate animals known as bryozoans and other organisms as live sensors. Spirographs and mussels are pictured underwater in the Smart Bay of Santa Teresa, in Lerici, Italy, September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo. ...

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Net Zero Roadmap for Travel & Tourism revealed

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September 24, 20211215 Views

WTTC also announces social and environmental indicators at Climate Week The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched a Net Zero Roadmap for the Travel & Tourism sector to support the industry in combatting climate change during its virtual climate week event. It also announced the launch of ground-breaking social and environmental research data. The first time such data will be produced across the whole sector, building on WTTC’s annual high-anticipated Economic Impact Report (EIR). These vital pieces of work represent WTTC’s biggest deliverables in the sector’s drive towards net zero by 2050. The powerful initiative is being run in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and professional services and consulting experts, A...

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South Lake Tahoe is Opening!

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September 16, 20211084 Views

Popular Destination Town Rebounding from Caldor Fire, Grateful to Welcome Residents Home and Eager to Host Visitors With more than 22,000 residents returning home, businesses opening their doors to employees and customers, and schools in session starting tomorrow (Thursday, Sept. 16), South Lake Tahoe is determined to turn the corner on the Caldor Fire and have its idyllic Sierra Nevada destination back to full operations. Following nearly two weeks of evacuations over safety concerns for residents and their homes, officials, locals and businesses are pulling together to heal and return to normalcy. “This has been emotionally draining for weeks over the numerous concerns, but we are resilient, and the countless ways our community has come together to support one another is he...

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Indigenous leaders push new target to protect Amazon from deforestation

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September 5, 2021752 Views

Indigenous groups urged world leaders on Sunday to back a new target to protect 80% of the Amazon basin by 2025, saying bold action was needed to stop deforestation pushing the Earth's largest rainforest beyond a point of no return. Amazonian delegates launched their campaign at a nine-day conference in Marseille, where several thousand officials, scientists and campaigners are laying the groundwork for United Nations talks on biodiversity in the Chinese city of Kunming next year. FILE PHOTO: Carlos Roberto Sanquetta, a forestry engineering professor at the Federal University of Parana, botanist Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira and Rioterra plant nursery worker Juciney Pinheiro dos Santos inspect a parcel of Amazon rainforest in Itapua do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil, November 4, 2020....

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Residents, tourists scramble to evacuate as California fire nears Lake Tahoe

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August 31, 2021416 Views

Residents and tourists in communities near Lake Tahoe fled on Monday as a fierce, 2-week-old wildfire roared closer to the popular resort destination through drought-parched forests in northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Evacuations in and around the town of South Lake Tahoe came as the U.S. Forest Service said it was taking the unusual step of closing all 18 national forests in California to the public in the midst of a fire season already shaping up as one of the worst on record. The closure is due to last 17 days, starting Wednesday, and effectively extends a shutdown of nine national forests in northern California that began on Aug. 23 and was due to expire over the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend. A view from Emerald Bay towards Lake Tahoe is obscured by smoke ...

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Rain falls at Greenland ice summit for first time on record

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August 21, 20211274 Views

Rain fell at the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet last week for the first time on record, another worrying sign of warming for the ice sheet already melting at an increasing rate, scientists said on Friday. "That's not a healthy sign for an ice sheet," said Indrani Das, a glaciologist with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "Water on ice is bad. … It makes the ice sheet more prone to surface melt." Not only is water warmer than the usual snow, it's also darker -- so it absorbs more sunlight rather than reflecting it away. A satellite image shows Nuuk Fjord, Greenland July 29, 2021. European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery - Processed by @DEFIS_EU/Handout via REUTERS That meltwater is streaming into the ocean, causing sea levels to rise. Alread...

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Tourists wade through Venice square hit by unseasonal flood

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August 9, 2021411 Views

Rare summer flooding submerged Venice's famed Piazza San Marco in up to a metre of water overnight. The lagoon city is often hit by so-called "acqua alta" (high water) in autumn and winter, and devastating floods in November 2019 caused hundreds of millions of euros of damage. A couple dances in a flooded St. Mark's Square during an exceptional high water in Venice, Italy August 8, 2021. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri Sunday night's event was less damaging, however, and couples in the square danced to piano music almost knee deep in the water, while children splashed and paddled and tourists waded through, shoes in hand. Venice's high water incidents are caused by a combination of factors exacerbated by climate change - from rising sea levels and unusually high tides to land subside...

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UN Climate panel warns of a catastrophe

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August 9, 2021698 Views

Earth has not been so warm since the Pliocene Epoch roughly 3 million years ago Among the many things that IPCC report released on Monday had said very categorically, one of utmost significance is that the world is running out of time. Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe with human influence contributing to many observed changes in weather and climate extremes. If the world drastically cuts emissions in the next decade, average temperatures could still rise 1.5C by 2040 and possibly 1.6C by 2060 before stabilizing. FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of an area affected by a bushfire on Fraser Island (K'gari), Queensland, Australia December 5, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media. Save Fraser Islands Dingoes Inc via REUTERS If the world d...

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Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade

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August 9, 20211257 Views

U.N. sounds clarion call over 'irreversible' climate impacts by humans The U.N. climate panel sounded a dire warning Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are "unequivocally" to blame. Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report has said. Flames rise as a wildfire burns at the village of Afidnes, north of Athens, Greece August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Costas Baltas The report found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate change, as the planet has surpassed more than 1 degree Celsius in average warming. Heat waves, droughts and torrential rains ...