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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Cape Cod
The Cape Cod Commission released a report, The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Cape Cod, that assesses the impacts climate change is likely to have on Cape Cod’s economy, revenues,…
Health & Climate, News, Outreach & Education
Climate Crisis: 233 Medical Journals Call for “Emergency Action”
Something amazing happened on September. 14, 2021. The editors of 233 medical journals around the world all published the same editorial: “Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases,…
Climate Action & Solutions, News
Greta Thunberg Calls Leaders Out on Climate Statements: “Blah, blah, blah”
Greta Thunberg addressed Italy’s Youth4Climate summit recently, saying failed leadership had resulted in 30 years of “empty words and promises” that amounted to a generational “betrayal.” “Our hopes and dreams…
Conservation & Land Use, News
Coastal Marsh Restoration Seen as Potent Weapon Against Climate Impacts
Federal scientists are studying whether heat-trapping carbon dioxide can be sucked out of the atmosphere and sequestered in restored salt marshes, sea grass beds and mangrove swamps. And those wetlands…
Climate Science, News, Outreach & Education
Woodwell Center Announces Important New Series: Beyond 1.5
As the latest IPCC report made abundantly clear, human activities to date have kicked off unprecedented global warming and committed us to passing the 1.5°C mark early next decade. We…
Conservation & Land Use, News
Our Forests Can Slow Climate Change. A New Report Shows Exactly How Much
Each year, nearly 1 million acres of forest across the continental U.S. are lost to development and other uses; Massachusetts alone loses an average of 5,000 acres of forest annually.…
Climate Action & Solutions, Conservation & Land Use, News
Vineyard & Nantucket Facing Serious Climate Impacts: New “State of our Coast” Report
Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are facing serious impacts from rising sea levels and more powerful coastal storms driven by climate change, a new environmental reportwarns. The “State of the Coast”…
Climate Action & Solutions, Climate Science, News
IPCC Issues Sixth Assessment Report Warning of Unavoidable Dangers
The IPCC has released its Sixth Assessment Report (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM), which emphasized the dangers of climate change, and that many of the risks associated with climate change are now unavoidable. The…