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#1325342022-01-17
To survive climate change, Venice needs to rethink its outdated flood defenses
The 3rd of October, 2020, was a momentous day for Venetians. A high tide had been predicted, which would normally have seen low-lying areas of the city under several inches of water. On this day, however, the streets remained miraculously dry.
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#1325352022-01-17
State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2021
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of the planet.
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#1325362022-01-17
Tongan volcano's eruption unlikely to cool down climate change
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) believes the major natural disaster centred around Tonga will not contribute to Earth’s temperature cooling significantly.
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#1324852022-01-14
The solution to climate change will be people-powered. Here's why
In our critically endangered world, there is no version of the future in which humanity can continue as it has always done. The climate crisis was created by the actions of people, and it is people who are going to have to act to manage its impact.
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#1324862022-01-14
Study: Climate change alters tiger shark migration routes
The new study, published on 13 January 2022 in the journal Global Change Biology and conducted by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, revealed that rising ocean temperatures due to climate change have significantly changed the locations and ...
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#1324872022-01-14
Companies Across The Globe Feeling The Climate Change Heat
As the climate crisis exacerbates weather conditions, businesses around the world are beginning to feel the heat. On home turf, the financial impact of climate risks to Indian companies is calculated to be around Rs 7,138 billion, according to a 2020 report by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
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#1324902022-01-14
Creating A Microclimate To Fight Climate Change
In 1982, when David and Margery bought their little house in an ex-public housing estate, they could look out of their bedroom windows and see what everyone had worn for the week, because you could see everyone’s washing on the lines in their backyards. His love of nature was developed in early ...
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#1324962022-01-14
Concerns for life in Western Australia’s Pilbara after 50.7C heat record matched
The Bureau of Meteorology is working to verify readings showing the northern Western Australia town of Onslow has matched the record for the hottest day in Australia, prompting calls to make living with extreme heatwaves in the Pilbara more sustainable.
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#1324972022-01-14
World’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis: 10 underreported emergencies
From Afghanistan to Ethiopia, about 235 million people worldwide needed assistance in 2021. But while some crises received global attention, others are lesser known.
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#1325082022-01-14
Climate change: Inadequate governmental response is causing climate anxiety in young people
Governments around the world must protect the mental health of young people by taking action against climate change, a study from The Lancet Planetary Health has concluded.
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#1325092022-01-14
The world's insatiable appetite for electricity is setting up a climate disaster
A report published Friday by the International Energy Agency found that global demand for electricity surged 6% in 2021, fueled by a colder winter and the dramatic economic rebound from the pandemic. That drove both prices and carbon emissions to new records.
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#1324632022-01-13
Canada needs a national tracking system to better fight climate change. Here’s why
A new report suggests Canada is not doing enough to adapt to and prevent the effects of climate change and is lacking the critical data it needs to do so.
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#1324652022-01-13
How shea trees can help combat climate change
You’ve most likely used a shea product today, possibly without even knowing. You probably know it’s in a lot of beauty products like creams and emollients. But the vast majority of shea goes into foodstuffs like chocolate, confectionery products, pastries, margarines, and vegan products. Shea bu ...
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#1324662022-01-13
Record number of Americans alarmed about climate crisis, report finds
A new report has revealed that a record number of Americans are now alarmed about the climate crisis. The study, published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, found that Americans overall are becoming increasingly worried about global heating, more engaged with the issue and mor ...
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#1324672022-01-13
FEATURE-Nepal's blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather
In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he never had trouble providing food for his insects - until last year, when unseasonally heavy rain left his honeybees hungry.
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#1324782022-01-13
Australia matches its hottest day on record as Western Australia town goes above 50C
Australia has matched its hottest ever reliably recorded temperature, with Onslow airport near the remote West Australian town of Onslow registering 50.7C.
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#1324822022-01-13
Forests in Western Himalayan Region & Northeastern States Among India's Climate Change Hotspots: ISFR-2021
Forests in the western Himalayan region and the northeastern states are consistently appearing as climate change hotspots across various climate scenarios in three selected time horizons, according to the India State of Forest Report 2021 (ISFR-2021) released on Thursday.
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#1324162022-01-12
Earth's Black Box Warns of Planet's End Due to Climate Change
In autumn 2021, as leaders from across the globe converged on Glasgow to talk about the impact of human-caused climate change, a coalition of artists, architects and researchers in Australia devised a way to document the apocalypse. How? By storing data in a massive metal monolith in Tasmania, a ...
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#1324192022-01-12
How climate change led one Perth baker to sell smaller loaves
They say a half a loaf is better than none, but a Perth, Ont., baker isn't so sure his customers will agree. For the first time in 30 years, Graham Beck is baking smaller loaves in his ovens, and he thinks the problem can be linked directly to climate change.
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#1324302022-01-12
‘Extraordinarily warm’: winter is fastest-heating season in most of US
American winters are rapidly warming and December 2021 was no exception. In New York, last month’s average temperature was 43.8F (6.5C) – 4.7F above the 1991-to-2020 average according to a recent analysis by Climate Central. The American south had an especially warm December, with Shreveport, Lo ...
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#1324412022-01-12
The devastating mudslides that follow forest fires
The summer of 2021 brought ideal fire weather to southern British Columbia in Canada. A dome of hot, high-pressure air settled over the area, sending temperatures soaring into record territory after months of drought.
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#1324532022-01-12
Climate change: Thawing permafrost a triple-threat
Thawing Arctic permafrost laden with billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases not only threatens the region's critical infrastructure but life across the planet, according a comprehensive scientific review.
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#1323822022-01-11
Climate Change: Last 7 Years Have Been Hottest On Record, Say Scientists
Fresh climatic data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has revealed that the last seven years were the hottest recorded ones to date. Being called 'another nail in the planetary coffin' by scientists, the data reflects the rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide an ...
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#1323832022-01-11
Meet the scientist moms fighting climate change for their children
Joellen Russell likes a big class. The bigger the better, actually, with online sections and huge auditoriums and students swarming her after a lecture – the way they did one Thursday morning this fall after her Intro to Oceanography course at the University of Arizona.
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#1323842022-01-11
After Record-Breaking Heat in 2021, Strategy Shares Launches Its Fight Against Climate Change
Rob Gough, a portfolio manager for Strategy Shares’ newest ETF NZRO, has experience as an actor and serial entrepreneur, and is well acquainted with the plotlines of action-thriller Hollywood disaster films. He currently co-stars alongside Bruce Willis in the movie American Siege. Yet, despite w ...
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#1323852022-01-11
World Economic Forum warns cyber risks add to climate threat
Cybersecurity and space are emerging risks to the global economy, adding to existing challenges posed by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, the World Economic Forum said in a report Tuesday.
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#1323862022-01-11
'Heartbreaking' loss: Climate crisis spurs push for compensation
Throughout 2021, a slew of hurricanes, floods and forest fires brought one fact into sharp focus: The climate crisis isn't a problem for the future, it's a problem for right now.
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#1323872022-01-11
How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
The climate crisis is set to profoundly alter the world around us. Humans will not be the only species to suffer from the calamity. Huge waves of die-offs will be triggered across the animal kingdom as coral reefs turn ghostly white and tropical rainforests collapse.
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#1323882022-01-11
Climate change will lead to more kidney stones: study
Rising temperatures from climate change will lead to more kidney stone cases, a new study has found. Dr. Gregory Tasian is a pediatric urologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the lead author of the study, which was published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.
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#1323892022-01-11
How climate change could hinder reforestation efforts, according to experts
Scientists are researching how to promote global diversity amid warming temperatures, but some of the methods that could prove effective may be further hindered by climate change, according to new research.
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#1323902022-01-11
2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record as emissions surge
The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Union scientists have said.
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#1323932022-01-11
US hit by 20 separate billion-dollar climate disasters in 2021, NOAA report says
The US was battered by 20 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021, one of the most catastrophic climate years on record which led to at least 688 deaths, according to the annual report of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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#1323942022-01-11
Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year
The world’s oceans have been set to simmer, and the heat is being cranked up. Last year saw the hottest ocean temperatures in recorded history, the sixth consecutive year that this record has been broken, according to new research.
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#1323992022-01-11
Winds of change bring winter rain to eastern Arabia
Warmer waters in the central tropical Pacific in recent decades have led to shifts in atmospheric wind jets, bringing more winter rainfall to the eastern Arabian Peninsula and less to the south.
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#1324022022-01-11
New Zealand summers are getting hotter, and humans aren't the only ones feeling the effects
It's not a mirage, our summers are getting hotter on average and we are experiencing more extremely hot days. News from NIWA that 2021 was New Zealand's hottest year on record fits with the long term trend.
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#1324152022-01-11
Drop in Rain Forest Productivity Could Speed Future Climate Change
Tropical forests host a rich diversity of plant and animal life and process vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). Therefore, researchers have been particularly interested in how these ecosystems might be affected by climate change.
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#1323542022-01-07
More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years.
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#1323582022-01-07
Indigenous communities at higher risk of climate change-induced flooding, study shows
A recent study is shining a light on the disparities in which communities in Canada will be hardest hit by climate change. The study, published last month in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science and led by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, found that Indigenous ...
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#1323662022-01-07
Protecting nature’s best carbon sink: Peatlands
The ground beneath your feet squishes and bounces as you walk, holding you up with water-saturated moss. Below you, layered up to 65 feet deep in the ground, lies one of Earth’s greatest treasures: peat.
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#1323752022-01-07
Managing for climate change with the resist–accept–direct framework
Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Global change increasingly propels ecosystems on strong trajectories toward irreversible ecological transformations.
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#1323352022-01-06
‘The ducklings might not survive’: readers’ concerns over early spring
I saw this young palmate newt emerging on the evening of 1 January. Newts should be overwintering in leaf and log piles, compost heaps and other suitable refugia from November until late February or early March, when they start moving toward breeding pools.
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#1323482022-01-06
Italian Winemakers Are Finding Creative Ways to Battle Climate Change Amid Worrying Reports
In April of 2021, winemakers across Europe found themselves battling a freak late frost. At Tenuta di Trinoro, a vineyard in Tuscany, it took a 24-strong team several hours one blistering cold night to set out and light up 3,500 candles to keep the fragile young buds of the vines from freezing. ...
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#1323492022-01-06
Lakes are losing their ice cover faster than ever — here’s what that means for us
Every winter when Lake Suwa in Japan freezes, locals believe that the Shinto male god Takeminakata crosses the frozen lake with his dragon to visit the female god Yasakatome. He leaves only his footsteps on the ice in the form of a sinusoidal ice ridge called the omiwatari.
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#1322772022-01-04
When Climate Change Meets Geopolitics
Deteriorating security in Ethiopia, a country W.E.B. Dubois once described as where “the sunrise of human culture took place,” is deeply concerning. The last few months have seen a dramatic involution for a country that was once a poster child for sustainable development.
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#1322782022-01-04
Is this winter's mild weather linked to climate change?
The last weeks have seen unusually mild winter weather - and record-breaking temperatures - but is the warm spell linked to climate change?
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#1322792022-01-04
Top 2021 climate realities demand a New Year's resolution for our planet
When pondering resolutions for a new year, it can be helpful to review the year gone by. In the case of 2021, one of the most striking realizations is that we’ve clearly entered an era of extreme weather disasters supercharged by accelerating climate change.
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#1322802022-01-04
We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers pointed out dead puffin chicks.
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#1322812022-01-04
Wales plans to offer ‘free trees for every household’ to fight climate change. But scientists warn of downsides if planned poorly
Wales is best known for its castles, coal mines and sheep. But the Welsh government is hoping to add something else to that list: trees.
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#1322822022-01-04
Warming Lakes Are Losing Oxygen. Climate Change & Pollution Are To Blame.
On a sweltering morning last July, thousands of dead fish washed onto the northeastern shores of Pokegama Lake, 60 miles north of Minneapolis.
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#1322862022-01-04
Dam it: beavers head north to the Arctic as tundra continues to heat up
The transformation of the rapidly warming Arctic is being accelerated by a wave of thousands of newcomers that are waddling and paddling northwards: beavers.