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#1349182022-06-08
New Zealand farmers propose paying for emissions to tackle climate change
Farming leaders in New Zealand have recommended that the government impose a price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, as the rural sector comes under significant political pressure over its disproportionate contribution to climate change.
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#1348742022-06-07
Singapore's dengue emergency is a climate change warning sign
Singapore says it is facing a dengue "emergency" as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has come unusually early this year.
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#1348762022-06-07
Water, Wildfire, and Climate Change
Fires across the West are threatening water supplies for millions of people—particularly in areas hard hit by climate change, like California.
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#1348772022-06-07
Talk Africa: Seychelles facing climate change
Located around 1,600 kilometers off the coast of East Africa, the Seychelles is an ecological paradise. But as climate change is affecting every region around the world, small island developing states are among the most vulnerable to the impacts such as increased temperatures and sea level rise.
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#1348782022-06-07
https://africa.cgtn.com/2022/06/07/talk-africa-seychelles-facing-climate-change/
Solar panels need to be deployed over vast areas worldwide to decarbonize electricity. By 2050, the United States might need up to 61,000 square kilometres of solar panels — an area larger than the Netherlands1. Land-scarce nations such as Japan and South Korea might have to devote 5% of their l ...
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#1348832022-06-07
The world's 1.5°C climate goal is slipping out of reach - so now what?
For almost a year, climate scientists have sounded one clear message. The world’s totemic goal of holding average global temperature rises to 1.5°C is still technically within our grasp, but will slip without a dramatic course correction by humanity.
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#1348842022-06-07
UN climate chief says 'much more is needed' to combat global warming
Nations must not lose hope and focus in tackling global warming despite the many obstacles to international co-operation, the UN climate chief said on Monday at the start of a 10-day meeting in Bonn, Germany.
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#1348852022-06-07
Climate change causing Britain to shrink with some coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea
Scientists welcome "honest conversation" about the long standing threat of sea level rise driven by climate change, warning coastal protection measures cannot save all communities, even if the Environment Agency could afford them everywhere.
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#1348962022-06-07
Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?
After epic floods in India, South Africa, Germany, New York and Canada killed hundreds in the past year, droughts are now parching landscapes and wilting crops across the western US, the Horn of Africa and Iraq.
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#1348992022-06-07
Climate crisis could make humans shrink in size, says fossil expert
The climate crisis may lead the human race to shrink in size, as mammals with smaller frames appear better able to deal with rising global temperatures, a leading fossil expert has said.
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#1349002022-06-07
A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down—if it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.
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#1348212022-06-02
For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses
At the end of February this year, the world’s governments signed on to a statement that was startling in its strength and clarity. “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and planetary health,” reads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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#1348222022-06-02
Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce
It got really, really hot early last summer in California’s Central Valley. For days, temperatures spiked above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, well over the 30-year average.
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#1348232022-06-02
Urban climate changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: integration of urban-building-energy model with social big data
The changes in human behaviour associated with the spread of COVID-19 infections have changed the urban environment. However, little is known about the extent to which they have changed the urban climate, especially in air temperature (T), anthropogenic heat emission (QF) and electricity consump ...
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#1348242022-06-02
4 reasons why CISOs can’t ignore climate change
Climate change may not be an issue synonymous with cybersecurity, but there is a growing need for the security sector to recognize and address the impact a changing climate is having.
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#1348252022-06-02
he UN Climate Change reconvenes next week in Bonn: what will be discussed?
The midyear UN climate conference “56th session of the Subsidiary Bodies” will take place from 6 to 16 June 2022, in Bonn. These sessions focus on means of implementation and policy requirements in preparation of the COP in November. This triangulation is hoped to act as a catalyst to ensure no ...
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#1348262022-06-02
IIT Madras urges countries to absorb people fleeing due to climate change
With climate change intensifying the push to migrate, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Thursday urged countries to absorb all asylum seekers.
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#1348282022-06-02
Link between climate change and mental health
Dr. Susan Clayton, a Psychology Professor at The College of Wooster, shares how climate change can negatively impact mental health.
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#1348312022-06-02
Climate Change Could Completely Consume the Siberian Tundra by 2050, Studies Show
As we know, the Arctic tundra won't be around much longer. Climate change is causing the sea levels to rise, and the ice to melt, which is also, in turn, wiping out the plant and animal species that live there. And unfortunately things aren't much different in Siberia.
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#1348462022-06-02
Climate change: 30 years on from Rio Earth Summit, did it actually achieve anything? – Dr Richard Dixon
Thirty years ago tomorrow, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development opened in Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 200 countries met for 11 days and four international agreements were signed. But has it made any difference?
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#1348682022-06-02
Climate change is turning the European Alps from white to green
Snow in the European Alps is melting and invasive plant species are outcompeting native Alpine plants, satellite imagery has shown. Both findings will reinforce climate change, say scientists.
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#1348692022-06-02
How climate change affects wheat and corn yields
More than half the world's food supply relies on just three types of grain: maize, wheat and rice. But supplies are tight - and not just due to the war in Ukraine. Models show that climate change is affecting harvests - and far more than previously thought.
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#1348702022-06-02
‘Vicious cycle’: Storms intensify in the Gulf as climate changes
Ecologically disastrous conditions in the Gulf are the latest sign of the dangers that climate change and other related factors pose to the Middle East.
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#1348712022-06-02
The ethics of tinkering with the earth's atmosphere to tackle climate change
Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
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#1348072022-06-01
We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist
The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned.
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#1347682022-05-31
Rainfall across Europe disrupted by climate change
A new study has for the first time shown that human induced greenhouse gas emissions are directly responsible for the long term trends of drying in the Mediterranean and increasing rainfall over the rest of Europe during winter.
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#1347712022-05-31
At least 91 dead in Brazil floods and landslides with many more missing
The death toll from floods in north-eastern Brazil could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing.
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#1347972022-05-31
What's the oldest tree on Earth—and will it survive climate change?
Thousands of feet above the Nevada desert, in a part of Great Basin National Park that tourists rarely see, park ecologist Gretchen Baker neared the top of Mount Washington and raised her binoculars. There just below, sprouting directly from the limestone, grew some of the oldest living things o ...
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#1347392022-05-27
More Damaging Than Previously Thought: Glaciers Might Not Be Able To Recover From Climate Change
A group of researchers from Stockholm University and the University of California, Irvine investigated whether the Petermann Ice Shelf in northern Greenland might recover from a future breakup caused by climate change. They employed a complex computer model to predict the ice shelf’s potential r ...
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#1347402022-05-27
Ancient Pollen Offers Clues to How Plants Adapted to Climate Change in the Past — and Potentially the Future
Each spring, many of us become hyper-aware of pollen. The dust-like substance, which plants release in bulk as they reproduce, is little more than a nuisance to many people as it irritates eyes and noses and coats cars in a light green powder.
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#1347412022-05-27
The Climate Conversation We One Day Hope to Have
Climate change has been momentarily defeated. Our species' extinction has been temporarily put on hold, as nations realize they have no choice but to confront the disease that is climate change.
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#1347422022-05-27
How People Can Help to Tackle Climate Change
The research group, headed by the University of Exeter warns against depending merely on discoveries in climate science and technology.
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#1347432022-05-27
Climate Change Threatens Important African Coastal Sites
The Door of No Return is worn smooth, the rust-hued stone frame eroded by the chained feet that shuffled through it to waiting ships. From the 15th to the 19th century, Senegal’s Island of Gorée was a departure point for some of the millions who suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.
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#1347442022-05-27
Preparing for climate change's effects more than ever critical: President
President Ramaphosa said potential disasters of the magnitude of the recent flooding have brought government’s disaster preparedness into sharp focus, with critical questions and solutions sought.
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#1347472022-05-27
Biodiversity eyed as tool vs climate crisis
BIODIVERSITY protection is a major tool against climate change, advocates said during the first episode of youth-led climate webcast Stories for Better Reality titled "Biodiversity and Climate Change: Anong Konek?"
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#1346782022-05-25
‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the whole city and there was no shortage of water and we had other facilities so we c ...
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#1346872022-05-25
How climate change, construction can weaken trees and cause severe storm damage
Last Saturday's severe thunderstorm and strong winds caused extensive damage across Waterloo Region and Guelph. Uprooted trees and snapped branches damaged cars, homes, property. In Ontario, nine of the ten people killed by the storm, and its aftermath, died from being struck by felled trees or ...
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#1346882022-05-25
Do we need nuclear power in the energy mix to stop climate change?
Some say it is indispensable if we are serious about hitting net-zero emissions targets. Others insist it is unnecessary and unconscionable. Here is what you need to know about nuclear energy now
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#1346892022-05-25
The US corn belt risks becoming cornless by 2100 as climate change forces farms northwards
Traditional farmlands in the Central and Eastern United States will need to shift under climate change, according to new research from Emory University.
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#1346902022-05-25
Six Ways Climate Change Is Making Poor People Poorer
Heat waves like the ones roasting South Asia this year don't just sap people's strength. They drain people's finances in ways that are not always obvious.
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#1346922022-05-25
See your climate blind spots
Many companies are rightly focused on managing their impact on the climate. But these companies should not forget the climate’s impact on them.
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#1346932022-05-25
American Society of Nephrology Urges Action on Climate Change
The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is calling on kidney health professionals to take action to address the impact of climate change on the 850 million people—including more than 37 million Americans—living with kidney diseases across the world who are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of ...
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#1346942022-05-25
Africa Day: How WFP helps families struck by climate change in Burundi
Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family.
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#1346952022-05-25
More firms adopting 'wait-and-see' strategy on climate change - EIB
The Head of Group Office for Ireland at the European Investment Bank, Cormac Murphy, has said that firms are waking up to the reality of what climate change and the green transition means for them.
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#1346962022-05-25
Climate change is eroding a precious resource: sleep
Everyone knows the horrible feeling: A stuffy night, just a little too warm, leads to restless sleep, and then next morning, you feel like a slow, groggy shell of yourself.
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#1346972022-05-25
Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?
Our old world, the one that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years,” Mike Davis declared in 2010, “has ended.” A decade later, David Wallace-Wells sounded the same death-knell in his 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth: “The climate system that raised us… is now, like a parent, dead.”
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#1347112022-05-25
Astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather
Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development.
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#1346062022-05-19
Climate Change: A Major Cause of Death for Rainforest Trees
According to a new study, tropical trees in rainforest regions of Australia have been dying at double the previous rate from the 1980s. This is apparently due to climate impacts.
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#1346072022-05-19
Climate Change Will Make Heat Like India’s 100 Times More Likely, Study Finds
The climate crisis is making heat waves like the one currently gripping India and Pakistan more than 100 times more likely to occur than they would be otherwise, a new study by the U.K. government has found.
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#1346082022-05-19
Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches
One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found ...