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These teens have some ideas for stopping climate change
If you could do one thing to stop climate change, what would it be? We asked some of the finalists at the 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
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Teachers talk about climate change, and kids are listening
Teachers may help convince students that climate change is real. But when it comes to what’s behind that change, many kids appear to rely on more than those educators.
- Climate
Climate change intensified Hurricane Florence, study finds
A new study finds that a warmer climate fattened up Florence. The result: Once it made landfall it would now drop lots more rain and over a broader region.
- Oceans
Climate change makes seas rise faster and faster
Climate change is boosting the average rate of global sea level rise. Steps can limit the worst impacts and help people adapt. But time to act is running short.
- Health & Medicine
Warning: Climate change can harm your health
Climate change will affect human health through such things as more frequent bouts of extreme weather, shifts in disease patterns, changes in air and water pollution.
- Agriculture
Crops are being engineered to thrive in our changing climate
Plants are already the best carbon catchers on Earth. New research could make them even better.
- Oceans
Climate change could stall Atlantic ocean current
Rising carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere could disrupt the Atlantic Ocean current after all, a new analysis finds.
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This scientist wants to motivate you to fight climate change
Getting lost in science fiction helps Shahzeen Attari reimagine what our future could look like.
- Environment
Paris meeting yields climate agreement
It provides outlines and incentives for nations to curb fossil-fuel use. The goal is to limit global warming to no more than 2° Celsius (3.4 °Fahrenheit) above temperatures typical in the 1750s or earlier.
- Science & Society
Building resilience to climate’s emerging impacts
The growing field of resilience science studies how communities and habitats can bounce back from stress and disruptions.
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How to curb the climate heating by contrails
Contrails are narrow clouds left behind in the sky by jets. They add to climate change. But a new study suggests a way to curb their contribution.
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Climate change is shifting when Europe’s rivers flood
Climate change has been shifting when European rivers flood by weeks or even months. This is likely to have been impacts on cities, farms and ecosystems.
