World Edges Closer to Meeting Climate Targets but Not Fast Enough

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November 08, 2022

Climate Change World Edges Closer to Meeting Climate Targets but Not Fast Enough As the COP27 climate summit begins, emissions reduction pledges are still far behind where they need to be to meet the goals to limit global warming By Andrea Thompson

Culture Every Story Is a Science Story Science applies to every important social issue. Saying so doesn't make us "unscientific" By The Editors

Climate Change Local Efforts Can Achieve U.S. Climate Goals Even if Republicans Take Congress, Report Says A coalition of businesses and local leaders claim that climate progress under the Biden administration will continue if Republicans control the House By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Policy Internet and Extremism Experts Predict More Hate Speech and Conspiracy Theories on Musk's Twitter Under Elon Musk's leadership, extremists could flock back to Twitter under the guise of "free speech," and researchers are gearing up to study their impact By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Mathematics Ramsey Theory Extracts Order from Chaos when Sorting through Confusing Arrangements of Numbers Mathematician Frank Ramsey showed how to discover coherent patterns among a multitude of number groupings By Manon Bischoff

Climate Change Give More Women the Microphone At COP 27 Women are leading the climate revolution. At COP 27, speakers should cede their time to hear what they have to say By Catherine McKenna,Amy Myers Jaffe

Health Care How Medical Systems Can Help People Vote Hospitals and health care workers are making voter engagement a part of whole-person health care By Ilan Shapiro,Shweta Namjoshi,Olivia S. Morris

Vaccines The Viral Triple Threat and Why You Need a Booster: COVID, Quickly, Episode 41 COVID, flu and RSV are surging. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself. By Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 06:43

Astronomy Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it By Rebecca Boyle

Climate Change In a First, U.N. Climate Summit Will Discuss Climate Reparations For the first time, the formal agenda of the U.N. climate talks will include discussion on how rich nations should pay poorer nations for the unavoidable impacts of climate change By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Climate Change See How Much Climate Change Has Cost Different Countries Low-income nations bear the brunt of costs from climate change By Andrea Thompson,Amanda Montañez

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