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I shed a single happy tear for the big boat

The Verge

I live in New York, a city on the water, but I hardly feel the impacts of living on the fringes of maritime culture unless I’m at one of the parks that overlook the harbors or there’s a disaster, like Hurricane Sandy. Your heart rate slows down, for one, and your body conserves its oxygen. Emails and tweets both count.)

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Energy conservation is seen as one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, and it is – if you use fossil-fuel energy.

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How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Energy conservation is seen as one of the most important things we can do to fight climate change, and it is – if you use fossil-fuel energy.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Farther north, New York City will get eight heat waves per year, some lasting as long as two weeks. For context, in the early 2000s New York averaged less than one heat wave annually. Paradoxically, all these new air conditioners are likely to contribute even more greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.)

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention.

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

The New York Times reported that employees are working on a list of demands , and that some senior employees have threatened to resign if Zuckerberg doesn’t reverse his decision. “As Reported cases in New York: 376,520. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,063,825.

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Why TikTok may not survive being sold

The Verge

Mike Isaac lays them out in the New York Times : A deal with Microsoft and Walmart could draw on Walmart’s digital sales background to turn TikTok into a kind of e-commerce app for both creators and users, people involved in the talks said. Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ). It was followed by CNN and Fox News.

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