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Weekly Climate News

April 8, 2021

  • Flooding in Australia has forced over 20,000 people to evacuate and over 150 schools to close down. 

  • The journal Geophysical Research Letters published a new study that shows summer in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening. As a result of climate change, by the end of the century, summer could extend by nearly six months. 

  • Pope Francis made an appeal for humanity to face climate change by quoting Shakespeare, writing, “To see or not to see, that is the question.”

  • Human activity is currently responsible for degrading two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rain forests. Read more about it here.

  • A NASA study has confirmed that human activities are shifting Earth’s energy budget, as more energy from the sun is being trapped than can escape back into space.

  • A recent experiment found that coffee pulp, left over from the coffee making process, can aid in the regrowth of forests. 

  • The Biden administration announced an expansive offshore wind plan that would install enough wind turbines on the East Coast to power 10 million American homes. 

  • How is climate change affecting major league baseball? Read this article to find out.