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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Man-made global heating has long been presented as a relatively simple chain of cause and effect: humans disrupt the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels, thereby increase the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to higher temperatures around the globe.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are mainly used for cooling and refrigeration.
If countries want to lower emissions as substantially, rapidly and cost-effectively as possible, they should prioritize support for renewables, rather than nuclear power.
A funny thing happens when you grow accustomed to something in your life.
A larger part of the Amazon rainforest could cross a tipping point where it could become a savanna-type ecosystem than previously thought.
A new plant species named "Cardamine insueta" appeared in the region of Urnerboden in the Swiss alps, after the land has changed from forest to grassland over the last 150 years.
