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‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In – Inside Climate News

‘A Really Monumental Day’ for Chicago River: Clean Enough for Hundreds to Swim In  Inside Climate News Chicagoans Avoided Their ‘Filthy’ River for Years. On Sunday, They Swam in It.  The New York Times Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years  The Guardian First-in-a-century Chicago River swim takes place Sunday  NBC 5 Chicago Source link

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Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki’s Mission Has Ended

Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki’s Mission Has Ended

Japan’s Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki was launched on May 21, 2010, and started its active mission in 2015 after an initial orbital insertion failure. Since that time, Akatsuki has continuously observed Venus from orbit until issues began to crop up in 2024 when contact was lost in April of that year due to attitude control issues. Japan’s space agency, JAXA, has …

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Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive

Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery costs. But his administration’s policies are contributing to an acceleration in prices, food economists and companies say. Grocery prices last month rose at their fastest pace in three years, stoked by Trump’s tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and extreme weather hurting food production. Prices jumped …

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‘Sun day’: US climate activists to rally for clean energy amid Trump attacks | US news

‘Sun day’: US climate activists to rally for clean energy amid Trump attacks | US news

As the Trump administration wages an all-out assault on climate protections and renewable energy, activists are gearing up for demonstrations this Sunday to hype up solar power and energy efficiency. The national “day of action”, called Sun Day, will be spearheaded by the veteran climate activist Bill McKibben. “Trump has aimed squarely at clean energy,” McKibben told the Guardian. “So …

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5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest supercomputers. Critiques of climate science, such as the report written for …

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Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says – Politico

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says  Politico A New Review of Climate Science Could Cause Headaches for Trump  The New York Times US senator calls on big oil to disclose suspected lobbying over Trump plan to axe key climate rule  The Guardian US Science Panel Says Greenhouse Gas Dangers Are ‘Beyond Dispute’  Bloomberg CT battling Trump EPA proposal to end greenhouse …

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Massive Landslide Creates 656-Foot Mega-Tsunami While Climate Change Triggers Global Seismic Chaos

Massive Landslide Creates 656-Foot Mega-Tsunami While Climate Change Triggers Global Seismic Chaos

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 A mysterious seismic signal lasting nine days was traced back to a massive landslide in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord. 📉 The landslide generated a 656-foot-high mega-tsunami, with seismic waves detectable across the globe, indicating a climate change connection. 🛰️ Advanced satellite technology like SWOT was crucial in analyzing the tsunami’s impact, highlighting the need for real-time monitoring …

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Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us?

Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us?

Life has influenced Earth’s atmosphere going back billions of years. But until two centuries ago, when humans started burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, the most significant living climate controllers were organisms invisible to us: single-celled microbes. Small but mighty, microorganisms are nature’s chemists. At the very bottom of all biological processes, microbes break down, transform and supply the …

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