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#1189792018-12-11
Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years
Our future on Earth may also be our past. In a study published Monday (Dec. 10, 2018) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing back at least 50 million years. And it's taken just two centuries.
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#1189802018-12-11
East Antarctica glacial stronghold melting amid climate change
Nasa detects ice retreat linked to probable ocean changes in region once thought stable
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#1189862018-12-11
COP24: UN science panel chief calls for more action to curb warming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chair Hoesung Lee told delegates at the COP24 climate summit in Katowice that the world needed to “do more and faster” to avoid dangerous climate change, reports the Associated Press. He said: “The report shows that not just action, but urgent act ...
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#1189902018-12-12
About 252 species died in the 'great dying' due to climate change
About 252 years ago, the majority of the species on Earth were killed off in the great dying. It is noted as the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history.
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#1189912018-12-12
‘Unabated climate change will cause more conflict and hunger’
Graziano da Silva made the remarks at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2018 panel discussion on how to solve the climate crisis, with 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former US Vice-President Al Gore as keynote speaker.
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#1189922018-12-12
As climate change bites in America’s midwest, farmers are desperate to ring the alarm
Richard Oswald did not need the latest US government report on the creeping toll of climate change to tell him that farming in the Midwest is facing a grim future, and very likely changing forever.
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#1189932018-12-12
Refusal to act on climate change slammed as shortsighted
Environment Minister Doris Leuthard says she is disappointed by the rejection of an amended law on carbon dioxide emissions by an alliance of rightwing and leftwing parties in parliament.
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#1189942018-12-12
Kenya renews commitment for Climate Change action plan at COP24
The Kenyan delegation to the ongoing 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commonly known as COP 24, have affirmed the Government’s commitment to ensure a speedy implementation of climate change action plans.
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#1189952018-12-12
Global, unequivocal action needed to tackle climate change: Masagos
A strong, unequivocal signal that the world is united against climate change - that is Singapore's expected outcome from COP24, the ongoing United Nations climate talks in Katowice, Poland.
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#1189962018-12-12
When global climate change makes soils saltier, farmers lose their land and livelihoods
Salt is essential for cooking, but too much salt in soil can ruin crops and render fields useless. According to legend, Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus sowed the soils of Carthage with salt after conquering the city during the Punic Wars. And after defeating the Italian town of Palestr ...
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#1189972018-12-12
Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half
The population of wild reindeer, or caribou, in the Arctic has crashed by more than half in the last two decades. A new report on the impact of climate change in the Arctic revealed that numbers fell from almost 5 million to around 2.1 million animals.
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#1189982018-12-12
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Sports industry joins race against climate change
Sporting royalty, and indeed plain royalty, gathered at COP24 on Tuesday to present the UN's first Sports for Climate Action Framework. The framework seeks to galvanise action from sports clubs, athletes, and fans around the world to reduce emissions from the sports industry and spread the word ...
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#1189992018-12-12
Radical environmentalists are fighting climate change – so why are they persecuted?
Climate change, deforestation, widespread pollution and the sixth mass extinction of biodiversity all define living in our world today – an era that has come to be known as "the Anthropocene". These crises are underpinned by production and consumption which greatly exceeds global ecological limi ...
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#1190012018-12-12
Hot possums risk losing their homes
As our world is warming under climate change, heat waves are becoming more frequent and intense, yet the vulnerability of our wildlife to such events is poorly understood. New research from Australia's Wet Tropics indicates that the area where maximum temperatures are survivable for the green ri ...
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#1190052018-12-13
South Africa increasing efforts to battle climate change
South Africa is scaling-up its current ambitious efforts to address climate change, says Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom.
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#1190062018-12-13
Pakistanis planting trees to tackle climate change
Rapid urbanization and infrastructure development has led to serious environmental challenges in Pakistan. A young man wants to tackle these problems by motivating his fellow citizens to plant trees.
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#1190072018-12-13
'People talk about deep sadness:' Scientists study climate change grief
His canvases are painted from first-hand observation by a brush wielded in the outdoors and glow with the colours of the Canadian wilderness. But British Columbia artist Dominik Modlinski doesn't take his paints into the woods much anymore.
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#1190082018-12-13
Ten Things The World Learned At The COP24 Climate Change Negotiations
In what many describe as the biggest international climate change negotiations since the 2015 Paris Agreement, COP24 convened this month in the city of Katowice, Poland. The recent landmark IPCC SR15 report on 1.5 °C global warming makes it abundantly clear that urgent and aggressive measures ar ...
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#1190092018-12-13
Climate change threatens Luxembourg's ice wine production
The tradition ice wine, or eiswein in Luxembourg, produced right at the end of the season, could soon disappear due to climate change.
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#1190102018-12-13
Climate change: Failure to tackle warming 'suicidal'
The UN secretary-general has warned negotiators at a major meeting that failing to increase efforts on climate change would be "not only immoral but suicidal" for the planet.
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#1190152018-12-13
Global Warming Will Increase Number of Strong El Niños, Causing More Extreme Weather, Study Says
El Niños are characterized by warmer-than-average ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific. That can greatly impact global weather patterns. Researchers say the natural weather phenomenon will become more frequent in the decades to come due to global temperature rise.
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#1190162018-12-13
Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist
“Global heating” is a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s climate, according to a key scientist at the UK Met Office.
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#1190172018-12-13
Alliance pledges to step up efforts at UN climate change talks
The UN climate talks have received a much-needed injection as they enter their final hours, with an alliance of 27 countries promising to step up efforts to tackle climate change under the Paris agreement.
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#1190182018-12-13
The Arctic is unraveling as climate change intensifies
Rapid climate change is transforming the Arctic, from the bottom of the sea floor to the top of windswept glaciers. Sea ice is disappearing, land-based ice is melting, and a domino effect of ecosystem changes have been set into motion, with unknown results.
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#1190192018-12-13
'We're running out of time': Canada under pressure to step up at global climate conference
The Canadian government is under intense pressure to fill a leadership void as countries try to hammer out how they will hold themselves accountable for implementing the Paris climate-change accord.
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#1190442018-12-14
The impact of climate inaction on food security
CANBERRA — The global food system needs to be transformed to respond to the health and nutrition needs of the future. To achieve this, however, there needs to be a strong global program to prevent greater threats from climate change.
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#1190452018-12-14
China's 'complicated' role in fight against climate change
When the leaders of the world's two biggest economies — and its two biggest polluters — finally saw eye to eye on climate change, they paved the way for a historic global agreement to fight it.
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#1190462018-12-14
China demands developed countries 'pay their debts' on climate change
China called on rich countries to “pay their debts” on climate change at global talks on Thursday, criticising developed countries for not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide finance to help poor countries do the same.
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#1190472018-12-14
These Tiny Island Nations Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
The ongoing negotiations on how to implement the Paris Agreement aren’t going well.
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#1190482018-12-14
How Climate Change is making parts of the Camargue disappear
As the COP24 climate conference in Poland comes to a close, parts of Europe are facing up to the effects of climate change.
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#1190582018-12-17
The whole world finally nods to enforce Paris Climate Change Agreement rules
Nearly 200 nations have agreed to enforce rules on implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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#1190592018-12-17
What's the best job for fighting climate change?
You don’t have to quit your day job to make a difference on climate change. Waite: “No matter if you’re in healthcare, media, journalism, science and tech, you can integrate sustainability, you can pursue it and you can have both purpose and profit.”
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#1190602018-12-17
Using archaeology to understand the past, present, future of climate change
A photo from the tragic "Camp Fire," the most destructive wildfire in California history, shows a house burned down to its foundation. Such images are difficult to process, particularly with 86 people dead.
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#1190612018-12-17
Know about coasts subject to harm by climate change in Egypt
Egyptian General Authority for Coast Protection is set to implement several protection projects on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to protect them from the adverse effects of climate change.
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#1190622018-12-17
Stage set for the fight against climate change
The common rules to govern the efforts by nations to fight global warming, adopted at a key United Nations conference on climate change in Poland over the weekend, only set the stage for implementing the 2015 Paris agreement to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide.
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#1190632018-12-17
Empower women to help save Africa from climate change
Africa must unlock the power of its women and girls if it is to adapt to climate change, cope with disasters and build its green energy sector according to African delegates as the world prepares to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change in Katowice, Poland, last week.
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#1190642018-12-17
Bamboo a solution to poverty, climate change, environmental degradation?
Climate experts and policy makers assembled at the UN Climate talks in Katowice, Poland -- 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, abbreviated as COP24 -- advocated for promoting bamboo, a fast-growing grass plant, as a solution to climate cha ...
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#1190652018-12-17
Climate change: The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about
Cement is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet. But, while cement - the key ingredient in concrete - has shaped much of our built environment, it also has a massive carbon footprint.
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#1190672018-12-17
UN climate accord 'inadequate' and lacks urgency, experts warn
The world has been put on notice that its best efforts so far will fail to halt the devastation of climate change, as countries came to a partial agreement at UN talks that failed to match up to the challenges faced.
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#1190862018-12-18
Climate change drives tundras out of sync
Warming temperatures in cold places are causing plants to flower earlier, according to a new study.horter flowering seasons can disrupt the food chain and how plants and pollinators in tundras interact with each other, said Florida International University biologist Steven Oberbauer, who co-auth ...
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#1190872018-12-18
Climate change threatens Germany's Christmas trees
Drought killed around a million trees in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia last summer, putting pressure on Christmas tree farmers. But new techniques could help detect crop death early.
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#1190882018-12-18
How climate change is impacting flatland ethnic minorities
Agriculture is the main occupation of many members of ethnic minorities, but climate change has left most of them unemployed.Niresh Pahan, one of many ethnic minority farmers living in Naogaon, is on the brink of starvation and poverty as most of his paddy crop died this year. Of the harvest he ...
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#1190892018-12-18
Climate change impacts agriculture in the northern Himalayas
Unseasonal rain and snowfall is the main reason for agriculture failing in Himachal Pradesh. “Hailstorms or torrential rains are usually destructive to our crops while snowfall is not,” said Uma Devi of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, when speaking to Mongabay-India.
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#1190952018-12-18
Hot or Not? Which 2018 climate trend is here to stay?
You know what’s really hot right now? Yeah, it’s the entire world. We kid, we kid. OK, the world is still hurtling toward an apocalyptic level of global warming, but we also made some interesting environmental headway this year. Climate was, dare we say it, trendy in 2018. From high-profile poli ...
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#1190962018-12-18
The world needs great strides to fight global warming. Climate talks in Poland delivered only baby steps
On Saturday night, at the end of two weeks of meetings in Katowice, Poland, delegates from nearly 200 nations gave themselves a standing ovation for their accomplishments in combating climate change. But even though they no doubt worked very hard on a very difficult issue, the fact is that their ...
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#1190972018-12-18
Why Non-Party Stakeholders Could Be Torchbearers of Climate Change Fight
The two-week long climate negotiations in Katowice, in the heart of Poland’s coal region, wound up last week. Nearly 200 countries laboured against geopolitical headwinds to agree on rules to implement the Paris Agreement.
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#1191092018-12-19
What would Jesus do? Talking with evangelicals about climate change
I was, frankly, nervous about speaking to people of faith in the south about climate change. I wrestled with my own preconceived notions and past experiences, and was surprised when conversations took inspiring, if not transcendent, turns.
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#1191102018-12-19
Changing climate, longer growing seasons complicate outlook for coniferous forests
For decades, ecologists have differed over a longstanding mystery: Will a longer, climate-induced growing season ultimately help coniferous forests to grow or hurt them? A new University of Colorado Boulder study may help researchers find a more definitive answer.
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#1191112018-12-19
What does the Violence Against Women Act have to do with climate change?
As the world heats up, it’s also becoming more violent. There’s been a lot of research linking climate change to war, violent crime, and even road rage. But you may not have heard that climate disasters like hurricanes Harvey and Michael were accompanied by a surge in intimate partner violence, ...
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#1191122018-12-19
African Development Bank more resolute in fighting against climate change
The curtain has fallen on COP24 , this year’s global climate summit held in Katowice, Poland. However, negotiations continued throughout the weekend to reach agreement on specific parts of the ‘rulebook’ to be applied from 2020 by the 197 signatories of the Paris Agreement (https://bit.ly/2S8gL ...