When we think about adapting humanity to the challenges of climate change, it’s tempting to reach for technological solutions. We talk about seeding our oceans and clouds with compounds designed to trigger rain or increasing carbon uptake. We talk about 
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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: Eric Toensmeier
High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is “farming carbon” — practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs.
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- Written by: Tim Lucas, Duke University
"While the effects have been most pronounced in the West, our analysis shows virtually all US forests are now experiencing change and are vulnerable to future declines," says James Clark.
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- Written by: Makoto Takahashi, Pre-doctoral researcher, University of Cambridge
As four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant suffered catastrophic cooling failures and exploded in March 2011, the world watched in disbelief. For Japan, this was not just the
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- Written by: Stuart White, Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
California has experienced, over the past few years, its most severe drought on record. In response to worsening conditions, Governor Jerry Brown announced the first ever statewide mandatory reduction in urban water use in April 2015. This calls on Californians
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- Written by: Steve Rintoul, Research Team Leader, Marine & Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Much has been written about the challenge of achieving the targets set out in the Paris climate agreement, which calls for global warming to be held well below 2? and ideally within 1.5? of pre-industrial temperatures.
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- Written by: Dave Levitan, Ensia
Nuclear power is dead. Long live nuclear power. Nuclear power is the only way forward. Nuclear power is a red herring. Nuclear power is too dangerous. Nuclear power is the safest power source around. Nuclear is nothing. Nuclear is everything.
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- Written by: Andrew Frederick Johnson, Postdoctoral Researcher of Marine Biology at Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
It was Charles Darwin, almost 200 years ago, who first asked how it could be that coral reefs could flourish in relatively barren parts of the Pacific Ocean. This conundrum subsequently became known as Darwin’s Paradox.
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- Written by: Peyton Fleming, Ensia
Pension funds, insurance companies and other investors who manage trillions of dollars have an enormous opportunity to change the future by investing in clean energy.
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- Written by: Todd Bates-Rutgers University
Global sea level rose faster in the 20th century than in any of the 27 previous centuries, a new analysis shows.
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- Written by: Bill McKibben, YES! Magazine
Physics can impose a bracing clarity on the normally murky world of politics. It can make things simple. Not easy, but simple. We have to attack this problem from both ends, going after supply as well as demand.
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- Written by: Regan Early, Lecturer in Conservation Biology, University of Exeter
It’s mid-February and along Britain’s south coast gilt-head bream are drifting from the open sea into the estuaries. Meanwhile, thousands of little egrets are preparing to fly to continental Europe for breeding season, though a few hundred
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- Written by: Chris Stokes, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University
Antarctica and Greenland may be two of the most remote places on Earth but what happens in both these vast landscapes can significantly impact on human activity further afield.
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- Written by: Susan Fitzer, Research Assistant, University of Glasgow
One of the big problems with the world’s heavy carbon emissions is that they are driving up the levels of carbon dioxide in our oceans, which is making them more acidic.
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- Written by: Peter Tangney, Lecturer | Course Coordinator - Science Policy & Communication, Flinders University
We don’t have to know exactly how high the sea might rise to start doing something about it.Climate scientists have recently been outraged by job losses within CSIRO. Sixty climate jobs are likely to be lost.
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- Written by: Alex Creed, Ensia
As the sun sets on the small Indonesian island of Sumba, Danga Beru Haba begins weaving under the glow of a single incandescent lightbulb, the only one in her home. Although she is tired from working dawn to dusk in the fields surrounding her village of Kampung Kalihi, the sarong she is weaving to sell locally will provide extra...
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- Written by: Tara Martin, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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- Written by: Seth Blumsack, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
By many accounts, the spread of solar power is unstoppable. Costs continue to fall at a blistering pace, solutions to give consumers a solar-powered home without needing to connect to the grid for back-up power are emerging, and even the
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- Written by: Andrew Winston, Ensia
Despite what the doubters say, a low-carbon economy is not only possible, it makes economic sense.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Buddhist leaders are urging global leaders to cooperate with compassion and wisdom and reach an ambitious and effective climate agreement at the 21st Session of the Conference of Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris.
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- Written by: Jim Wild, Lancaster University
Wouldn’t it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they’re telling us our planet is warming up due to human activity and we run the risk of potentially devastating environmental change.
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- Written by: Jay Lawrimore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National and international studies have shown that the Earth is warming, and with this warming, other changes are occurring, such as an increasing incidence of heat waves, heavy downpours and rising sea levels.
