Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Edward Doddridge, University of Tasmania
Antarctic summer sea ice is vanishing fast—threatening wildlife, warming oceans, and pushing our climate system to the brink. Here’s what scientists just uncovered.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
As the world grapples with climate change, a looming crisis is unfolding in the United States housing market.
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- Written by: Tricia Wachtendorf and James Kendra, University of Delaware
Tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters tell a story of vulnerability and recovery in America.
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- Written by: Piers Forster
Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, with yearly emissions equivalent to 54 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
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- Written by: Catherine E. Russell
Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.
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- Written by: Kenny Stancil
Fossil fuels did this, said one climate justice campaigner. Unless we ditch fossil fuels immediately in favor of a just, renewable-energy based system, heatwaves like this one will continue to become more intense and more frequent.
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- Written by: Julia Conley, Common Dreams
Organizers of the "Coal Baron Blockade" protest which targeted right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's coal empire Saturday afternoon reported that state police almost immediately began arresting campaigners who assembled in Grant Town, West Virginia.
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Creative Commons
Among the events sparking concern was "freakish warming at Earth's South Pole" including "a mind-blowing" above-average reading at a research station.
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- Written by: Simon Willcock, Bangor University et al
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all known species.
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- Written by: University of Arizona
Using lake sediment in the Tibetan Plateau, researchers show that permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than arctic permafrost under projected future climate conditions.
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- Written by: Ernest Agee, Purdue University
Studies do show tornadoes getting more frequent, more intense and more likely to come in swarms. The most intense and longest-lasting tornadoes tend to come from what are known as supercells
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- Written by: University of Copenhagen
Implementing carbon prices that reflect the true social costs of CO2 emissions through climate damages remains a key challenge for policy makers around the world.
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- Written by: Harrison Tasoff, University of California, Santa Barbara
In coming decades, many regions of the world will enter permanent dry or wet conditions under modern definitions of drought, according to new research.
