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Yashas Raj and Jake Chapman are hunkered down in a basement laboratory at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering—tinkering with a handheld nozzle they hope will one day be capable of shooting trillions of microscopic water droplets into the sky every second to brighten clouds over the Arctic Ocean. Boosting cloud reflectivity by adding the mist, they say, would cut the amount of sunlight reaching the water’s surface and slow the melting of Arctic sea ice.
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The lawsuit alleges the county has known since at least 2023 that the landfill is leaching PFAS, a family of forever chemicals, into drinking water.
This story was published by the Border Belt Independent in collaboration with Inside Climate News.
‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination
Researchers say fossil fuel burning and other human activities caused nearly all the rapid warming of the past decade.
Former federal climate experts warn that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations hit a record high in May and that the monthly average global temperature this summer could rise as much as 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial benchmark used to measure the heating from greenhouse gases.
Scientists Warn of Summer Heat Spikes as Global Warming Edges Toward 2C
Climate Change
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Larry Wallach’s commercial exotic animal business was shuttered by New York courts and federal regulators declined his application to exhibit animals. Now he’s pitching a new sloth encounter business in Florida.
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A Sloth Exhibitor Shut Down by New York Wants a Florida Comeback—and Florida Licensed Him
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