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“ Our House Is on Fire” : Greta Thunberg Addresses Hundreds of Thousands at NYC Climate Strike :
“ Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Friday’s climate strike in New York, where an estimated 300,000 people took to the streets. Thunberg inspired the global spread of weekly climate strikes when she started skipping school to protest outside of the Swedish parliament last year. “We will not just stand aside and watch,” Thunberg told a crowd of thousands in her speech at Manhattan’s Battery Park. “We are united behind the science, and we will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse.”
Watch here : https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/23/new_york_city_climate_strike_greta
“ Fish are in trouble with the climate crisis, IPCC report finds “
“ Rising temperatures mean oceans will have less oxygen, and this, along with more heatwaves and increased acidification, will make fish move further away from the coast and create larger deadzones, where life cannot survive. Ultimately, the report said, this will lead to the extinction of some species of fish . “
Watch here : https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/health/fish-climate-crisis-ipcc/index.html
“The smell will knock you off your feet': Mass mussel die-offs baffle scientists “
“ Mussels, the backbone of the river ecosystem ( because they control silt levels and filter water ) are facing a mysterious affliction .. Each fall since 2016, wildlife biologist Jordan Richard has returned to the same portion of the Clinch River in Tennessee, braced for the worst, tens of thousands of newly dead mussel shells gleaming from the surface of the water. “
Tiny shell fossils reveal how ocean acidification can cause mass extinction
“ Today, the world's seas are again becoming more acidic, due to an increase in carbon emissions. At least one quarter of the CO2 released by burning coal, oil and gas doesn't stay in the air, but instead dissolves into the ocean, according to The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, a US government initiative, and The Smithsonian Ocean Portal “
Read here : https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/europe/ocean-acidification-asteroid-intl-hnk-scn/index.html