U.S. nuclear plants were built to withstand the most extreme weather deemed possible based on the historical record — but most plants were built 40 years ago.

A new report finds these plants may yet be vulnerable to climate change.

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The U.K. is closing in on its zero-carbon power goal.

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“If we misuse or destroy this land, we will not have any other,” says a tribal leader in the Solomon Islands.

Tribes are resisting the lure of quick cash from logging. Instead, they are selling carbon credits from their forest.
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From our archives: Climate change is not only driving up ocean temperatures. It is also stripping the seas of oxygen.

Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists warn that future oxygen loss poses a grave threat to sea life.
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Every U.S. nuclear plant is located in an area where warming is set to worsen flooding or extreme weather.

And yet regulators have not studied whether plants are prepared for those changing conditions, a new report finds.

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Scientists have discovered that octopuses can remember people, plan ahead, and solve complex problems.

A deeper understanding of octopus intelligence is fueling opposition to a planned octopus farm in Spain.
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A handful of startups are trying to coax the ocean into taking up more of our emissions.

Little is known about how effective their techniques will be — or about the range of unintended consequences.
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To reach its climate goals, the Biden administration aims to extend the lives of U.S. nuclear reactors.

But a new report finds regulators have not studied whether increasingly extreme weather could threaten aging nuclear plants.

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Reprising her role as Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva is determined to reverse the rampant destruction of the Amazon.

In a new interview, she talks about her efforts to crack down on illegal mining and logging in the region.
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From our archives: There are more than 400 dead zones in the world’s oceans, all largely the result of fertilizer runoff.

The largest dead zone, located in the Baltic Sea, often covers more than 20,000 square miles.
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The ocean soaks up 30 percent of our emissions. A handful of startups are trying to coax it into taking up even more.
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The Sirebe of the Solomon Islands have resisted quick money from logging. Instead, they are selling carbon credits from their forest.

Locals are using the income to pay for toilets or solar panels, or to send their children to school.
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A new report alleges the U.N. was complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from World Heritage Sites.

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For billions of years, the oceans have been absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Now, to boost that drawdown, startups are altering the chemistry of the ocean or sinking wood or kelp to the seafloor.
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When scientists voted down a proposal to name a new, human-dominated epoch, the Anthropocene, they rejected clear evidence that, for the first time, a single species has fundamentally altered the planet.
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From our archives: Deforestation in the Amazon is dramatically raising temperatures.

The air over a farm is on average 9 degrees F hotter than the air over an adjacent forest.
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Greece plans to create two marine parks that, together, will span an area the size of New Jersey.

It also plans to end bottom trawling in protected waters.

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Last year Brazil cut deforestation in half. By 2030 it's aiming to end the loss of forest.

But, says environment minister Marina Silva, if 'the world does not reduce its CO2 emissions, the forest will still be turned into a savanna.”
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A new report alleges the U.N. was complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from World Heritage Sites.

Read more Yale Environment 360: bit.ly/4aD3jWb

“If we misuse or destroy this land, we will not have any other,” says a tribal leader in the Solomon Islands.

Tribes are resisting the lure of quick cash from logging. Instead, they are selling carbon credits from their forest.
e360.yale.edu/features/solom…