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#1191232018-12-19
Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Human Health In History
In early October the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's definitive scientific body on the topic, published, “Global Warming of 1.5C.” Over 90 scientists from 40 countries reviewing 6,000 studies prepared the IPCC report in response to a 2015 Paris clim ...
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#1191242018-12-19
'Greater warming': different species under threat
Entire ecosystems are under threat due to warming oceans with parts of the Australian coast stretching from Sydney to Adelaide experiencing the most stress, experts warn.
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#1191252018-12-19
Dolphin deaths attributed to virus found in climate-changed waters
Climate change is putting bottlenose dolphins at greater risk of death from a measles-related virus, researchers at Flinders University found.
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#1191272018-12-19
'Business as life'
Fighting global warming will take meaningful change - not business as usual. The dialogue of the COP24 climate talks often seem to consist of little but collections of acronyms and buzz phrases.
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#1191372018-12-20
Kids, it’s time to give your parents 'the talk.' Not that one, the one on climate change.
My first-year Bucknell University students were nervous about their assignment: Interview someone in your family about climate change. Only one rule: It had to be someone 50 or older. It had to be intergenerational. If I could, I’d give everyone the same homework assignment this holiday season.
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#1191382018-12-20
Climate change could threaten fishing in North Carolina
North Carolina is a paradise for fishermen – from its cold mountain streams to its brackish coastal estuaries.Prater: “Here our culture is very tied to the land, very tied to the wild.”
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#1191392018-12-20
See how much warmer winters in US cities could be by 2050
Crisp white winters are beginning to turn mushy gray across the northern United States. And the longer we wait to get serious about limiting climate change, a White Christmas could become a thing of the past for many cities later this century
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#1191402018-12-20
Want clean air in 2019? Let’s talk climate change
For years, air quality and climate change have been like star-crossed lovers — inextricably linked, but never quite finding their way to each other in environmental policy and dialogue. Well in 2018, the two finally got hot and heavy thanks to several landmark reports and climate calamities lite ...
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#1191412018-12-20
Can ‘living well’ stop climate change?
Humanity has just ten years to turn things around. The most recent IPCC report says that we need to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030 or else be locked into a warming scenario that none of us wants to see. So, what to do?
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#1191422018-12-20
2018 - the hottest La Niña year ever recorded
Once the final official global annual surface temperature is published, 2018 will be the hottest La Niña year on record, by a wide margin. It will be the fourth-hottest year overall, and the fourth consecutive year more than 1°C (1.8°F) hotter than temperatures in the late-1800s, when reliable m ...
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#1191522018-12-20
Carbon labeling can reduce greenhouse gases even if it doesn't change consumer behavior
In a new commentary piece published Dec. 18 in Nature Climate Change, Michael Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Climate Change Research Network, examines how carbon labeling can help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a variety of ways. The ...
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#1191602018-12-21
Experts reveal the six ways climate change affected Christmas dinner this year
This year’s heatwave affected the production of carrots, sprouts, stuffing, brandy butter, custard and ice cream, as well as pigs in blankets.
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#1191632018-12-21
Causes of climate change in Kenya and the world
We have experienced various effects of climate change. From the shifting of animal ranges, trees flowering sooner to accelerated sea level rise, more intense heat waves, to desert like conditions slowly and steadily encroaching formerly productive agricultural land. Understanding the causes of c ...
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#1191652018-12-21
Deadly weather: the human cost of 2018's climate disasters – visual guide
The UN’s recent alert that the world has at most 12 years to prevent climate catastrophe was a landmark moment. Never before has the threat of irreversible damage been so close.
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#1191662018-12-21
We must face up to the challenge of feeding a warming world
Agan Soyan Hassan and her six children lost everything, including their home and livestock as flood waters engulfed their village of Ranranle in south-east Ethiopia. Wading through water for four grueling hours, they reached higher ground with a mere plastic sheet for shelter.
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#1191672018-12-21
Farmers know climate change is real — can they fight it?
Craig Dunnum didn’t read the recently released National Climate Assessment (NCA), which predicts the nation’s farm commodity contribution to the economy — $136.7 billion in 2016, already low due to falling prices — will be increasingly vulnerable to droughts, floods, pests and disease.
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#1191682018-12-21
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
t's happened before, and it could happen again.Tens of thousands of years ago, a giant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. This inundated huge swaths of what had been dry land. Scientists think it could happen again as the world heats up because o ...
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#1191792018-12-21
Are We Bored With Climate Change?
As the COP24 conference on climate change wrapped up last week in Poland without any major developments, downward-trending levels of interest in the subject have raised the question of whether the public and media have become weary of discussing it.
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#1191882018-12-21
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Foundation Has Donated $100M To Climate Change Charities
Everyone’s favourite Hollywood philanthropist has helped grant climate change charities $100 million through the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and its tireless work to save the world.
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#1191982018-12-27
The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect
When Hurricane Harvey’s record-busting rains drenched Texas in August 2017, they triggered a cascade of chaos. Widespread flooding turned roads into rivers, impeding evacuations and access to emergency services. Stormwater swept up pathogens from wastewater treatment plants and toxins from Super ...
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#1191992018-12-27
Miami's affluent 'climate refugees' seek higher ground
Climate change is prompting Miami's rich to abandon the oceanfront and head for the hills. That's bad news for the people of Little Haiti, a ridge-top immigrant community suddenly sitting on hot property.
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#1192002018-12-27
Climate change: Huge costs of warming impacts in 2018
Extreme weather events linked to climate change cost thousands of lives and caused huge damage throughout the world in 2018, say Christian Aid. The charity's report identified ten events that cost more than $1bn each, with four costing more than $7bn each.
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#1192022018-12-27
Glaciers in Western Canada retreat because of climate change: experts
Climate change is prompting glaciers in British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta to retreat faster than at any time in history, threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say.
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#1192032018-12-27
Climate Change Is Affecting Shark Swimming Behavior
Climate change has been on everyone’s tongue lately, with many wondering how this phenomenon is changing our animals. Australian scientists have discovered one way it is altering the behavior of one of our oceanic predators: sharks. According to the study published in the Symmetry magazine, our ...
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#1192042018-12-27
UN Climate Change Conference (COP24): How to limit Climate Change
This video shows the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland. It highlights the action that needs to be taken to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
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#1192082018-12-27
Pacific plea: put $2bn focus on climate change
Pacific Island nations have called for Scott Morrison’s new $2 billion infrastructure bank to fund cyclone shelters, port upgrades and sea walls to protect the region from economy-wrecking storms, after Australia’s recognition of climate change as the Pacific’s biggest security threat.
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#1192092018-12-27
Damage from 2018's worst extreme weather linked to climate change
Extreme floods, droughts, wildfires and storms linked to climate change cost thousands of lives and billions of euros this year, a report has warned. Among the most expensive disasters to hit the world this year were Hurricanes Florence and Michael, which struck the US and parts of Central Ameri ...
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#1192162019-01-03
Want to thwart climate change? Here are 8 steps you can take
Now that the New Year's Eve party is over, it's time to lay off the balloons and glitter – both are scourges to the environment.UConn faculty members make the case for those and other personal lifestyle changes that can help protect the environment for future generations.
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#1192172019-01-03
How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse
Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites and stalactites are growing slowly over millennia and preserve in them clues about past climate events. Changes in stalagmite chemistry from t ...
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#1192182019-01-03
How Much Climate Change Will Steal from Your Pocket This Year?
When the Fourth National Climate Assessment was released on Black Friday, it presented a pretty grim outlook on the economic impacts of climate change. With the future bringing everything from longer, more intense droughts to more frequent and severe hurricanes, the report suggested that climate ...
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#1192192019-01-03
Climate change: LED lights making dent in UK energy demand
Installing a single low-energy LED bulb may make a trivial contribution to cutting the carbon emissions that are overheating the planet. But if millions choose LEDs, then with a twist of the collective wrist, their efforts will make a small but significant dent in the UK's energy demand.
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#1192202019-01-03
Mongolia, Cheese, and the Future of Dairy in the Era of Climate Change
From coast to coast, American farmers are battling record-setting heat waves, fires, droughts, and excess rain. Partially deployed to calm grazing animals stressed by adverse weather, but also help stop, and even reverse, climate change, some dairy farmers are returning to 100 percent pasture-ba ...
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#1192212019-01-03
Morocco rates high in climate-change performance index
Rabat: Morocco has been named the second best performing country after Sweden in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). Sweden was in top position, followed by Morocco and Lithuania in the CCPI 2019. The bottom five in the list were Saudi Arabia, the US, Iran, South Korea and Taiwan.
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#1192222019-01-03
Korean women mitigate climate change
Helplessness and depression. That was how the Fukushima Disaster in 2011 affected middle-aged Seoul resident Kim So-young. A mother of teenage twin girls, Kim recalls the day of the nuclear meltdown in neighbouring Japan as a metanoia in her life.
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#1192232019-01-03
Climate change: ‘Red alert’ from the natural world – leader comment
Scotland must play its part in the fight against climate change amid increasing warning signs from the natural world.Last year’s dramatic weather shifts – from the ‘Beast from the East’ to the hot, dry summer – may well have convinced some that our climate has indeed changed.
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#1192242019-01-03
Data, democracy and decision making: A look at climate change and India through the prism of past, present, future
Happy New Year! Just kidding — this is a climate change column: of course, I’m going to rain on your parade! In this piece I want to consider the past, through five pieces of data, the present political context, and three important events in the coming year that are central to climate change an ...
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#1192252019-01-03
The new normal: Climate change fuels natural disasters, more to come
Natural disasters that hit people around the world in 2018 are just a preview of what is next, say scientists if the threshold for the global temperature rise is crossed. But will the efforts be enough to prevent climate change-related disasters this year?
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#1192262019-01-03
Climate Change Forces Central American Farmers to Migrate
As he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey, as undocumented migrants, to the United States.
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#1192492019-01-04
How climate change could lead to 'enormous' losses for the global fishing industry
The Chances of survival for the offspring of important fish species will dramatically worsen if the Paris Agreement target of limiting the global rise in temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius is not achieved.
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#1192502019-01-04
Climate change: We challenged three people to transform their daily habits
Buy less meat and dairy. Walk, don't drive. Dry laundry on a rack. They're all things we're told could help save the planet. But how far are any of us prepared to go? And what's stopping us from doing more? We challenged three people to spend one week making as many changes as possible to live a ...
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#1192632019-01-07
Before they disappear: Treasured UNESCO sites at risk from climate change
(CNN) — From the sinking city of Venice to the mass bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, climate change is drastically impacting some of the world's most treasured heritage sites.
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#1192642019-01-07
2018 was 4th warmest year on record, EU climate change report finds
Last year was the fourth warmest on record, extending a scorching streak driven by a buildup of man-made greenhouse gases, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Monday.
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#1192652019-01-07
Winter cover crops meant to protect soil may contribute to climate change
Farmers grow crops or leave dying vegetation in their fields over the winter. A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, shows they may be causing unintended climate warming.
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#1192672019-01-07
The end of coffee: could Australia save the world's beans?
Climate change may devastate the globe’s major coffee-growing regions through extreme weather events – but Australia could be the solution
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#1192802019-01-07
Scientists Work to Build Climate Change Resilience in Caribbean Coral Reef
For centuries, the Mesoamerican reef in the Caribbean Sea has welcomed over 500 species of corals, fish, and other sea creatures. Linked to commercial and recreational activities from fishing to snorkeling, the marine wildlife boosts the national economies of the countries whose coastlines the r ...
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#1192832019-01-08
Climate change: Effect on sperm could hold key to species extinction
Since the 1980s, increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves have contributed to more deaths than any other extreme weather event. The fingerprints of extreme events and climate change are widespread in the natural world, where populations are showing stress responses.
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#1192842019-01-08
Climate change: its impact on aviation. The time to plan is now.
There is justifiably a good deal of analysis and media coverage of aviation's impact on climate change. Fewer column inches have been given to the impact of climate change on aviation.
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#1192852019-01-08
Extreme Weather’s Link to Climate Change Is Becoming Clearer
As the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent, improvements in data collection and technology are enabling scientists to be more forward-leaning about the impact it has had on extreme weather.
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#1192862019-01-08
In despair over climate change? Try ‘active hope’
Each week throws up a new report into the perilous state of the planet. Wildlife populations around the world have fallen by an average of 60 per cent over the last 40 years. The UN says we have just 12 years to avoid catastrophic climate change.
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#1192892019-01-08
Global warming of oceans equivalent to an atomic bomb per second
Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research.