Suburbs often talk up their rural-style charms: their houses aren’t packed quite as tightly as in the city, their parks and open spaces are airier than their urban equivalents, and things are generally quieter. Some suburbs still have working farms in their borders. But the Town of Rush doesn’t just feel rural, it is rural, […]
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Making the case for local communities to act on climate change
Drastic cuts in global carbon dioxide emissions are necessary to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Still, decades of human-generated carbon emissions have already locked the planet into some degree of warming and change, climate scientists say. In other words, the only relevant question is, just how bad will it be? And the answer […]
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Panel’s report warns of climate change future effects
Climate change is affecting every continent and we are not prepared. That is essentially the one-sentence summary of a report released today by a working group of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC is the authoritative voice on climate change. “We live in an era of man-made climate change,” Vicente Barros,co-chair […]
