Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Have you ever heard of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC? Don't worry if you haven't! It's not a daily discussion topic, but it's an integral part of our planet that scientists watch closely.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Global warming is a pressing issue that poses severe threats to our planet and all its inhabitants. In recent years, scientists have warned about the potential consequences of reaching a 3°C increase in global temperatures.
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- Written by: John Dearing, University of Southampton et al
These collapses might happen sooner than you’d think. Humans are already putting ecosystems under pressure in many different ways – what we refer to as stresses.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
April 16, 2023: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued an El Nino Watch as part of its April ENSO outlook.
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- Written by: Stephen Burtng
Sleeping at the height of summer can sometimes feel impossible. And with gruelling heatwaves becoming more common
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- Written by: Oliver Phillips et al
Nowhere is nature more vibrant than in Earth’s tropical forests. Thought to contain more than half of all plant and animal species, the forests around Earth’s equator have sustained foragers and farmers since the earliest days of humanity.
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- Written by: Phoebe Quinn, and Katitza Marinkovic Chavez
Many young people feel anxious, powerless, sad and angry about climate change. Although there are some great resources on children’s eco-anxiety and climate distress, the vast majority are designed for and by adults.
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- Written by: Frances Davenport
Although floods are a natural occurrence, human-caused climate change is making severe flooding events like these more common.
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- Written by: Erica A.H. Smithwick, Penn State
We are facing a much different fire regime in a hotter, drier world. In the western U.S., the area burned by wildfires has doubled since the mid-1980s compared to natural levels.
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- Written by: Robert Lempert, Pardee RAND Graduate School and Elisabeth Gilmore, Carleton University
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed. But as two of theauthors of a recent international climate report, we also see reason for optimism.
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- Written by: Risa Palm and Toby W. Bolsen, Georgia State University
Waterfront homes are selling within days of going on the market, and the same story is playing out all along the South Florida coast at a time when scientificreportsare warning about the rising risks of coastal flooding as the planet warms.
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- Written by: Yingxiao Zhang and Allison L. Steiner, University of Michigan
Brace yourselves, allergy sufferers – new research shows pollen season is going to get a lot longer and more intense with climate change.
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- Written by: Ariel Hessayon and Dan Taylor
This isn’t the first time that Britain has experienced drastic climate change, however. By the 16th and 17th centuries, northern Europe had left its medieval warm period and was languishing in what is sometimes called the little ice age.
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- Written by: Phillip Stalley, DePaul University
China has more solar power capacity than any other country and makes many of the world’s solar cells, but coal is still its top energy source.
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- Written by: Adele Dixon, University of Leeds, et al
Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ecological casualties of global warming.
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- Written by: Rob Jordan, Stanford University
Humans have cooked with fire for millennia, but it may be time for a change. Natural gas appliances warm the planet in two ways: generating carbon dioxide by burning natural gas as a fuel and leaking unburned methane into the air.
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- Written by: Mark Maslin, UCL
It’s a common argument among climate deniers: scientific models cannot predict the future, so why should we trust them to tell us how the climate will change?
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- Written by: Chloe Brimicombe, University of Reading
More people are going to hospital, compared with 20 years ago. It turns out, that’s not the only surprise in this new report. Here’s how else climate change is affecting health in Britain.
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- Written by: Daniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Tree Physiology and Forest Ecology
Like humans, trees need water to survive on hot, dry days, and they can survive for only short times under extreme heat and dry conditions.
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- Written by: Matt Shipman, NC State
New research clarifies how hot nights are curbing crop yields for rice.
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- Written by: Richard Eckard, The University of Melbourne
The National Farmer’s Federation says Australia needs a tougher policy on climate, today calling on the Morrison government to commit to an economy wide target of net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050.
