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Apple launches $200 million fund for climate change Apple has created a $200 million fund to invest in forestry projects to help remove carbon from the atmosphere while also generating financial returns for its investors, the company said Thursday. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22385552/apple-200-million-fund-climate-change-environment

Biden’s First Climate Actions Include Rejoining Paris Agreement Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish the United States as a global leader on climate change policy. Continue Reading . . . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bidens-first-climate-actions-include-rejoining-paris-agreement/

Earth Hasn’t Warmed This Fast in Tens of Millions of Years Scientists just completed one of the most comprehensive investigations of Earth’s climate history—and the findings aren’t favorable. They found that the planet could eventually warm to levels it hasn’t reached in at least 34 million years. Continue Reading . . . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/

Think recent climate disasters have been bad? Just wait, researchers at the University of Hawaii predicted Monday. from https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/climate-change-going-make-life-earth-whole-lot-worse-report-n938101 https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_47/2651861/181119-hurricane-florence-north-carolina-floding-cs-234p_1c05fafaa04553c2e1d0977b8a1fa568.fit-760w.jpg

Ever-mindful of calculable uncertainty and climate deniers, the authors give "odds of roughly 5 in 1 million" of these changes occurring naturally, without human influence. from https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-have-shifted-the-earth-s-seasons-for-the-first-time-with-climate-change https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-07/processed/LAinHazeHumansAlteredSeasons2_600.jpg

https://t.co/3jLE5AE5or : Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream. https://t.co/4y0PQfRWsC — Mike (@mikezmac) March 28, 2017