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WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — According to the latest Healthy Minds Monthly* poll from the American Psychiatric Association (APA), 58% of adults believe climate change is already impacting the health of Americans and nearly half (48%) agree that it’s impacting the mental health of Americans. Half of adults (51%) are anxious about climate change’s impact …

A new United Nations climate change report warns emissions need to peak by 2025, and be slashed nearly in half by 2030 to keep global warming from reaching limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Environmental groups in Canada say the Liberals’ latest emissions plan will fall short of those goals. “Our pledge is weaker …

Star of Aquilinia Bernadette Mercer Bernadette Mercer’s cautionary tale “Star of Aquilinia – A Parable For Earth” promotes environmental awareness QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, April 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — With her science fiction novel, author Bernadette Mercer tackles multiple issues facing the world today, from pollution to the environment to the need to switch to sustainable and …

Environmentalists welcome emissions reduction plan, but say it will be vital to ‘hold politicians’ feet to the fire’. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a $7.3bn (9.1 billion Canadian dollars) plan to help the country meet its carbon emissions target, including significant reductions in the oil-and-gas sector. Speaking in Vancouver on Tuesday, Trudeau linked …

By Steffan MessengerBBC Wales Environment Correspondent Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The area around Blaenau Ffestiniog is alongside Egypt’s Pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon as a Unesco World Heritage site Appropriately enough, it’s drizzling on the day we visit the town billed as Wales’ wettest. A grey sky blends in with the …

People visit Ford’s all-electric SUV Mustang Mach-E at the 2019 Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, the United States, Nov. 22, 2019. Xinhua via Getty Images DETROIT – Ford Motor said Wednesday it will reorganize operations to separate its electric and internal-combustion engine businesses into separate units within the automaker. The company expects the …

Wealthy nations are breaking their climate commitments by funding a new dash for gas in the global south, according to a study. A week before the G7 summit begins in Cornwall, the report reveals low and middle-income nations received nearly $16bn a year between 2017 and 2019 to fund projects related to gas, a fossil …

Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers “feeling like a visitor at an amazing party” on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy where she swam above coral reefs with nurse sharks, sea turtles and countless colorful fish. But on a return trip after Hurricane Irma ravaged the island in 2017, …

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A new study on the climate reports that the moisture content in western states is lower than it’s been in 125 year, which is sparking concern for a record number of wildfires. Meteorologist Mark Jackson with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told CBSLA’s Jeff Nguyen that a map from the US …