13. Climate & Nature Crisis

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  Europe’s Drought Crisis Could Be the Worst in 500 Years

  Weather Fox - Nelleke van Niekerk, BSc Food Science and Biochemistry

  Europe is currently grappling with a drought of epic proportions, one that experts believe could be the worst in 500 years. This alarming situation …

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  Breaking the Dam: How the Supreme Court Eroded 50 Years of Clean Water Protection

  EARTHDAY.ORG - Amina Shaw

  For over 50 years, the Clean Water Act has been the dam holding back unchecked pollution, but with one ruling the Supreme Court just punched a hole …

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  Glaciers are losing more water each year than the world will consume in three decades, study warns

  Euronews

  The thawing of 7 trillion tonnes of glacial ice since has raised sea levels by almost 2 centimetres, with the Alps a melting hotspot. Climate change …

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  We built an AI model that analysed millions of images of retreating glaciers – what it found is alarming

  The Conversation UK - Tian Li and Jonathan Bamber and Konrad Heidler

  The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average since 1979. Svalbard, an archipelago near the northeast coast of Greenland, is …

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  The World’s Largest Combustion Engine Uses 250 Tons of Fuel a Day

  odditycentral.com - By Spooky

  Designed to power giant container ships, the 14-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C two-stroke turbocharged diesel engine is the world’s largest …

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  Some of the world’s biggest cities are so polluted they’re warming slower

  grist.org - Lylla Younes

  But this surprising effect of pollution should hardly be taken as a good sign. The question of whether global warming is accelerating is hotly …