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4 days ago · One recent estimate found that adapting to climate change in the U.S. will cost from tens to hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050. For comparison, federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. currently spend over $400 billion annually on public infrastructure. In the 1980s, there was one billion-dollar event every four months ...
3 days ago · It’s still almost brand-new,” said Tomas Ramon Vasquez, one of the founders of Familias Unidas. Mr. Ramon, 39, is no stranger to the perils of heat. High temperatures exacerbated a long ...
3 days ago · Given the climate impacts happening around the world at less than 1.5 degrees Celsius, researchers are extremely worried about what effects the world will see at 2 or even 3 degrees more warming ...
3 days ago · Climate change - Human Impact, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions: Human societies have experienced climate change since the development of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. These climate changes have often had profound effects on human cultures and societies.
4 days ago · Here's why that's important : Short Wave : NPR. Earth is more than a planet with life on it. It's a "living planet". Ferris Jabr's book, Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, examines the ...
3 days ago · In one new paper, scientists at the University of Maryland argued that the decrease in aerosols could double the rate of warming in the 2020s, compared to the rate since 1980. But other ...
2 days ago · The politics of climate change results from different perspectives on how to respond to climate change. Global warming is driven largely by the emissions of greenhouse gases due to human economic activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, certain industries like cement and steel production, and land use for agriculture and forestry.
