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#1316552021-11-15
Climate activists in Kenya fight to protect the slums — and call on the West to do more
Climate change has brought deadly flooding to Kenya’s most impoverished neighbourhoods, and drought elsewhere.It's not how many would want to spend a Saturday morning: digging deep into piles of wet sludge, garbage and human waste clogging the drainage paths that snake through the narrow streets ...
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#1316562021-11-15
Madagascar's habitat at risk due to climate change
Environmentalists looking after one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests in Madagascar are increasingly worried about climate change putting endemic wildlife at risk.
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#1316572021-11-15
Amazon birds change their body shape due to climate change
A new study showed that even the wildest parts of the Amazon rainforest untouched by humanity are being impacted by climate change.
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#1316582021-11-15
Climate change threatening Canada’s permafrost
There’s another piece to the climate change puzzle that Canadians must confront. Few countries in the world have permafrost, but Canada has four million square kilometres of it. And that big melt is releasing carbon that has been locked away for centuries. Not only that – life is being disrupted ...
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#1316602021-11-15
North African climate change threatens farming, political stability
"I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high and dry by increasingly long and intense droughts across North Africa.
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#1316612021-11-15
Climate change is the most important threat to our health
On Friday, COP26 came to a close in Glasgow. Though assessment of its success or failure remains a point of contentious discussion, we are delighted that Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO)’s COP26 Health Programme ...
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#1316742021-11-15
‘It’s like hunting aliens’: inside the town besieged by armadillos
Thanks to climate change, armadillos, native to southern America, are making their way up north. And there’s no sign of them stopping their relentless march
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#1316852021-11-15
Friction: from fingerprints to climate change
What links geckos’ feet, plate tectonics, the winter sport curling and spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere? For physicist and science writer Laurie Winkless, the answer is: friction. Her eclectic, sometimes erratic, book Sticky touches on all these and much more as she investigates a force who ...
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#1312832021-10-29
PCPs face mounting responsibility to address health effects of climate change
Human influence has had an unequivocal impact on earth’s climate, causing significant changes that threaten people’s security and physical and mental health, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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#1312842021-10-29
Financing adaptation
As climate change impacts are felt more and more around the world, adapting to change is becoming critical. However, it is not clear whether actions being taken are effective in reducing risk and increasing resilience, and access to financing is crucial.
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#1312902021-10-29
'We need to act immediately' on climate change, IOM chief warns world leaders
In an interview with FRANCE 24 from Geneva, the director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged world leaders to "act now" to tackle the challenges of climate change during the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow.
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#1312912021-10-29
Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
The costs of doing nothing vastly outweigh the costs of decarbonising a global economy which, since the Industrial Revolution, has been powered by fossil fuels. That may seem self-evident today, when catastrophic fires and floods offer daily reminders of how expensive continued inaction on clima ...
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#1312922021-10-29
Climate Change Is Affecting Polar Bear Diet
Climate change is disproportionately affecting the polar regions. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) revealed that in the last just the last 50 years, the Arctic warmed up by nearly three times quicker than the rest of t ...
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#1312932021-10-29
Global warning: pharma’s role in the climate crisis
Despite the distrust with which the pharma industry tends to be viewed by the general public, it remains an industry that revolves around an overriding social mission.
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#1312942021-10-29
How You View Climate Change Might Depend On Where You Live
President Biden and his entourage will be headed to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this weekend to demonstrate where the country stands on addressing climate change.
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#1312962021-10-29
Climate change in least developed countries: How blended finance could help meet mitigation needs
After this summer, the list of destructive impacts stemming from climate change is at once more familiar, remarkable and terrifying: Sea-level rise, ocean acidification and desertification led to increasingly devastating extreme weather events such as fires, cyclones, hurricanes, floods and drou ...
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#1312992021-10-29
‘Not trying to mislead’: airlines chief defends industry’s net zero pledge
For the airline industry it was as “momentous decision”; for environment campaigners it was “essentially meaningless”. Earlier this month, the global airline trade body Iata passed a resolution, approved by almost 300 of the world’s biggest carriers, to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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#1313212021-10-29
Climate change: We're acting, but are we making a difference?
It's a big question: Is the world doing enough to adapt to the effects of climate change? According to University of Delaware disaster researcher A.R. Siders, there are no easy answers, but scientists are looking at this problem from a variety of angles.
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#1313272021-10-29
How investing in Natural Climate Solutions can make companies more resilient
The world heads into the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow facing some sobering facts. The August IPCC report warns of dire consequences for our way of life, and our planet, if we are unable to keep warming at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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#1312322021-10-28
Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer
The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle native to Southeast Asia, threatens the entire ash tree population in North America and has already changed forested landscapes and caused tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue to the ash sawtimber industry since it arrived in the United States in ...
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#1312332021-10-28
78% of People Globally Fear Damage to Earth Amid Worsening Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Survey
Roughly 78% of people worldwide are concerned about human-caused damage to our planet with the climate and biodiversity crisis, according to the most comprehensive global values survey to date tracking attitudes about climate change and the environment.
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#1312352021-10-28
Drying land and heating seas: why nature in Australia’s southwest is on the climate frontline
In a few days world leaders will descend on Glasgow for the United Nations climate change talks. Much depends on it. We know climate change is already happening, and nowhere is the damage more stark than in Australia’s southwest.
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#1312432021-10-28
Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding, and climate change is making them stronger
Ask people to name the world's largest river, and most will probably guess that it's the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth's largest rivers are in the sky—and they can produce powerful storms, like the ones now drenching northern California.
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#1312442021-10-28
Five climate change myths
As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from October 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.
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#1312472021-10-28
'Never seen anything like it': astronaut on 2021 climate disasters
From his perch 400 kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has had a unique perspective on the climate-fuelled natural disasters that have swept the planet over the past six months.
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#1312492021-10-28
World faces growing threat of 'unbearable' heatwaves
From Death Valley to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent to sub-Saharan Africa, global warming has already made daily life unbearable for millions of people.
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#1312572021-10-28
World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds
Every corner of society is failing to take the “transformational change” needed to avert the most disastrous consequences of the climate crisis, with trends either too slow or in some cases even regressing, according to a major new global analysis.
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#1312702021-10-28
Climate change bringing more severe storms to North Pacific, says shipping chamber head
Ships are facing harsher weather as storms in the North Pacific grow more severe as a result of climate change, says the head of a marine transportation industry association.
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#1312722021-10-28
Trying to slow climate change by pulling CO2 out of the air
A large facility in Iceland is trying to slow the effects of climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, but critics say the expensive technology doesn’t remove enough emissions from the air to make a difference.
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#1312732021-10-28
Climate crisis: What’s at stake for Africa?
Africa has played a minor role in causing climate change, but bears the burden of its consequences. For the continent, the UN climate conference is about vital funding and securing the livelihoods of 1.4 billion people.
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#1312772021-10-28
Nico Rosberg says motorsport can help tackle climate change
Retired Formula One champion Nico Rosberg says motorsport has a positive role to play as the world seeks to combat climate change.
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#1312782021-10-28
Climate Change Has Already Hit Southern Africa. Here’s How We Know.
Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance.
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#1312032021-10-27
If all 2030 climate targets are met, the planet will heat by 2.7 C this century
If nations make good on their latest promises to reduce emissions by 2030, the planet will warm by at least 2.7℃ this century, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. This overshoots the crucial internationally agreed temperature rise of 1.5℃.
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#1312042021-10-27
Want to visualize the realities of a warmer planet? Give this online tool a try
The Clark Fork River drains much of western Montana, bringing water from the Crown of the Continent to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. My daily commute via bicycle crosses the Clark Fork most days and has allowed me to discern a rhythm and tempo in how the seasons come and go—a composi ...
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#1312062021-10-27
The ripple factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the world
Weather extremes can cause economic ripples along supply chains. If they occur at roughly the same time, the ripples start interacting and can amplify, even if they occur at completely different places around the world, a new study shows. The resulting economic losses are greater than the sum of ...
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#1312072021-10-27
Updated climate commitments fall far short, but net-zero pledges provide hope
Analysis of countries' plans to fight climate change show they are not enough to avoid the worst impacts unless further promises are kept.
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#1312082021-10-27
Curbing climate chaos: Why nature is the unsung hero in our quest for net zero
The forests, grasslands and coastal and marine ecosystems that Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and partners are working to safeguard are not just biodiversity havens. They also play a vital role in the global carbon cycle by removing it from the atmosphere and storing it for decades, centuries ...
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#1312092021-10-27
A quick guide to climate change jargon: What experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms
As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you'll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. The language can feel overwhelming.
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#1312142021-10-27
UN biodiversity chief urges COP26 climate talks to prioritize nature
'Climate change is becoming an increasingly serious driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystems degradation – and that loss threatens to worsen climate change," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema says
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#1312202021-10-27
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living there. As that figure continues to climb and ever more people flock to metropolitan areas in the hope of a better life, the big question is: how do we fit everyone in?
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#1312232021-10-27
Climate change to force crop switch for small farmers: experts
In a report issued ahead of the UN climate conference opening in Glasgow on Sunday, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sounded the alarm after commissioning a study on agriculture in southern and eastern Africa.
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#1311522021-10-26
Cats, charisma and climate change (commentary)
Hurricane Ida’s warpath is the latest in a litany of natural disasters, estimated to have cost the world $210 billion in damage in 2020, that is shining a spotlight on climate change. Given extensive air time and word counts by global news outlets, a perpetual stream of climate reports described ...
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#1311572021-10-26
African leaders, hard-hit by climate change, plan a tougher stance at Glasgow negotiations
Gabon’s Environment Minister, Lee White, is readying an arsenal of arguments in favour of funding the next stage in Africa’s campaign to stave off the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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#1311582021-10-26
Revealed: 60% of Americans say oil firms are to blame for the climate crisis
A majority of Americans want to see oil and gas companies held to account for lying about the climate crisis and contributing to global heating, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the Guardian, Vice News, and Covering Climate Now.
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#1311602021-10-26
Joanna Lumley says wartime-style rationing could help solve climate crisis
Joanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.
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#1311612021-10-26
Climate crisis: economists ‘grossly undervalue young lives’, warns Stern
Many economic assessments of the climate crisis “grossly undervalue the lives of young people and future generations”, Prof Nicholas Stern warned on Tuesday, before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1311622021-10-26
I chaired Cop21 when we delivered the Paris agreement. We must go further in Glasgow
In the fight against global warming, the 2015 Cop21 meeting that yielded the Paris agreement has become the landmark Cop. Glasgow Cop26 must be an accelerator of action.
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#1311662021-10-26
Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint
Tackling climate change will require world leaders to take action on a global level. But as individuals we also contribute to damaging emissions. Here are some things you can do to reduce your personal impact.
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#1311672021-10-26
The numbers behind: Climate change
Climate change is real. We now know that for certain. We are already experiencing doomsday scenarios that climate scientists had projected for the distant future.
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#1311682021-10-26
Lancet Offers Grim Assessment of Climate Change and Health
The world is mostly failing to respond to the climate crisis, leading to an “unabated rise” in heat-related deaths, exposure to wildfire smoke and infectious disease, and threats to food and water security.