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#1340832022-04-14
Forests are reeling from climate change-but the future isn't lost
The first thing you notice in this fire-scarred forest is the color. Not long ago this square of land south of Yellowstone National Park was a monochrome of ash and burned pines.
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#1340342022-04-13
We need true nature-positive solutions to address climate change
Decades ago, Welsh academic Raymond Williams wrote, "Nature is perhaps the most complex word in the language." So perhaps it’s not surprising that organizations and individuals working at the interface of climate change and biodiversity conservation have wildly different opinions about what are ...
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#1340372022-04-13
Cuba highlights biodiversity protection amid climate change impacts
Cuba's Cienaga de Zapata National Park, one of the largest and most important wetlands in the Caribbean region, is facing the impacts of climate change on the ecosystem. Local government and environmentalists are taking actions. #GLOBALink
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#1340392022-04-13
Climate Change Will Reshuffle Marine Ecosystems in Unexpected Ways – “Like Putting Marine Biodiversity in a Blender”
Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean fewer productive fish species to catch in the future, according to a new Rutgers study that found as temperatures warm, predator-prey interactions will prevent species from keeping up with the conditions where they could thrive.
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#1340432022-04-13
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the world’s biggest problem: ‘If we don’t address climate change, we really will be toast’
Since leaving Google, Eric Schmidt has focused his energy on tackling big global problems — and none, he says, are as pressing as climate change.
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#1340442022-04-13
Climate pledges could limit warming to 2C. What’s needed is action, study says
The world still has a fighting chance to keep temperatures below 2° Celsius over pre-industrial levels, if all countries meet their commitments to curb global warming, scientists say.
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#1340462022-04-13
How Did Climate Change Affect Ancient Humans?
Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors had an intimate relationship with their environment, which helped shape where and how they lived. But when the climate changed— when the river ran dry or local grasslands and herds dwindled—how did ancient humans respond? Bones, stone tools and ot ...
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#1340482022-04-13
We must use Cop27 to transform energy and food systems
“Rapid, deep and immediate” emissions reductions across all sectors: the third part of the IPCC report, released this month, leaves no room for speculation as to what must be done.
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#1340522022-04-13
South Africa floods: deadliest storm on record kills over 250 people
Devastating floods have killed 259 people in the South African city of Durban and surrounding areas, a senior government official said on Wednesday, after hillsides were washed away, homes collapsed and more people were still feared missing.
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#1340562022-04-13
Thawing permafrost driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms
Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of ...
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#1340602022-04-13
Lost golden toad heralds climate's massive extinction threat
Those lucky enough to have seen them will never forget. For just a few days every year, the elfin cloud forest of Costa Rica came alive with crowds of golden toads the length of a child's thumb, emerging from the undergrowth to mate at rain-swelled pools.
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#1340652022-04-13
Climate change affects landscape freeze-thaw but not in the same way everywhere, study shows
As any resident of northern climates knows, a seasonal thaw is never straightforward. The freeze-thaw process can last over a period of months and historically was mitigated by predictable air temperature and snow cover depth.
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#1340672022-04-13
Our food system isn't ready for the climate crisis
The climate breakdown is already threatening many of our favorite foods. In Asia, rice fields are being flooded with saltwater; cyclones have wiped out vanilla crops in Madagascar; in Central America higher temperatures ripen coffee too quickly; drought in sub–Saharan Africa is withering chickpe ...
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#1339922022-04-12
Chile announces unprecedented plan to ration water as drought enters 13th year
As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile has announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million.
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#1340032022-04-12
How climate change stresses plants and alters their growth
Plants that inhabit the Earth have the incredible ability to grow continually for hundreds of years, and always towards the light of the sun, which provides them with the necessary energy to sprout.
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#1340072022-04-12
Southern Africa storms fuelled by climate change - study
Climate change fuelled heavier rainfall during a series of storms that battered southern Africa earlier this year, scientists say. Analysis from the World Weather Attribution group also showed that such extreme rainfall was more common now.
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#1340082022-04-12
Climate change cripples Iraqi farmers’ crops
Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.
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#1340102022-04-12
Where the Ice Is Still Abundant, These Penguins Are, Too
Adélie penguins have had a rough time of it on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming linked to climate change has occurred faster than almost anywhere else on the planet. That and other factors have led to sharp declines in Adélie populations in recent decades.
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#1340112022-04-12
Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the “skin” covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This “biocrust,” made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, retains water and produces nutrients that other organisms can use. Now, new research shows cli ...
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#1340232022-04-12
US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating
Tribal communities will soon have access to $46m to tackle effects of the climate crisis, which disproportionately threaten Indigenous Americans’ food supplies, livelihoods and infrastructure.
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#1339632022-04-11
How each of us can help protect biodiversity as the Prairies warm
CBC Alberta and Saskatchewan have teamed up for a new pilot series on weather and climate change on the Prairies. Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga will bring her expert voice to the conversation to help explain weather phenomena and climate change and how it impacts everyday life.
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#1339642022-04-11
Turkish experts warn climate change makes Black Sea warmer
Seawater temperatures are substantially changing in the Black Sea, according to Turkish researchers, amid a climate crisis that has triggered floods and landslides in the eponymous region
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#1339672022-04-11
I Would Have Never Bought This Home if I Knew It Flooded
I have spent much of the past decade at the soggy edges of this country listening to the people whose homes and businesses flood worse and worse year after year as tides rise higher and storms become stronger.
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#1339862022-04-11
A warm, dry March worsened record drought conditions
March 2022 marked the third month in a row where precipitation was below average across the contiguous U.S., which led to an expanding drought and areas of record dryness throughout the West.
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#1339872022-04-11
What can we do about extreme weather?
Even without climate change, more people would be faced with the challenges of extreme weather events. That is because the human population continues to grow, our patterns of land use continue to change, and more and more of us are in the pathway of extreme weather events.
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#1339192022-04-06
How sea-salted clouds, solar and social influencers could help with climate change
While the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out, yet again, some dire predictions about the planet unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations experts also offered a glimmer of hope.
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#1339202022-04-06
UN says 18 nations have gone green on climate, raked in cash
Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it's possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world's top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions "for at least a decade" as their economie ...
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#1339212022-04-06
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI
The April 4, 2022 report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes it clear that it is “now or never” for the planet. We are “firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in releasing the report.
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#1339222022-04-06
Climate change: IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming
UN scientists have unveiled a plan that they believe can limit the root causes of dangerous climate change. A key UN body says in a report that there must be "rapid, deep and immediate" cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
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#1339232022-04-06
Sport and climate change: Paralympic champion Tatyana McFadden explains the link
Tatyana McFadden is considered the fastest woman in the world. She is a six-time US Paralympian and 20-time Paralympic medalist. She has won 23 World Major Marathons and has broken five world records in track and field.
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#1339242022-04-06
Climate change: What does the IPCC mean by 'choice architecture' and can it change our behaviour?
For the first time ever, UN climate scientists have dedicated a whole chunk of a report to how we can curb climate change by reducing energy demand - that is, by consuming less.
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#1339252022-04-06
Any plans to dim the Sun and cool the Earth must be led by those most affected by climate change
The developed countries of the “global north” are responsible for 92% of excess global emissions, according to a 2020 study in The Lancet Planetary Health. Yet it is the rest of the world – the “global south” – that disproportionately bears the brunt of climate change.
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#1339472022-04-06
Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen?
A mid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement.
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#1339482022-04-06
The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead
It was once the pinnacle of humanity’s climate ambitions. A new UN-led climate report essentially concedes that it’s out of reach. The world’s most ambitious climate goal—to keep the planet’s average temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above its preindustrial level—is still tec ...
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#1339492022-04-06
Could Climate Change Lead To The Next Black Plague?
Barbados, Apr 6: Rodents are well known reservoirs of disease, and our lives will increasingly intersect as our shared environment warms.
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#1339102022-04-01
Climate change is everywhere in the story of a mounting global food crisis
Since Russia's war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage.
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#1339112022-04-01
Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns
Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in spring - and the results might apply to other butterfly species too.
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#1339122022-04-01
How to Convince People to Leave Homes at Serious Risk From Climate Change
Nearly 100 million Americans live on the coasts, and they are continuing to move there at high rates. In fact, the coastal population has grown by more than 15 percent since 2000—faster than the rest of the country—and the population of coastline counties in the Gulf of Mexico region increased b ...
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#1339132022-04-01
Can carbon markets supercharge nature-based solutions to climate change?
Market economics have done much to c ause the climate crisis. But can they help solve it? Carbon markets and sustainable finance taxonomy are two rapidly growing market mechanisms that promise a surge in climate finance and a simultaneous decline in greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1339142022-04-01
Climate change: A look at some extreme temperatures recorded worldwide
The World Meteorological Organisation has declared 2021 as one of the seven warmest years on record. The story so far: In March, parts of eastern Antarctica recorded extremely high temperatures that were around 30 degrees Celsius above normal, sounding alarm bells for rapidly progressing climate ...
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#1339152022-04-01
More people may be hospitalized with low sodium levels due to climate change
The human body needs sodium for various body functions — from conducting nerve impulses to regulating heart rate, digestion, brain activity, and blood pressure.
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#1338652022-03-31
Allergy season is getting worse. Why climate change is to blame
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you are well aware the dreaded season is underway, and for many, it’s another bad year. According to medical experts, the allergy season has been getting worse.
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#1338662022-03-31
The Razor's Edge of A Warming World
As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost.
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#1338672022-03-31
What Impact does Climate Change have on Our Health?
Climate change is caused mainly by human activity subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, a major part due to fossil fuel use, and secondly due to changes in land use.
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#1339022022-03-31
Destination Earth – new digital twin of the Earth will help tackle climate change and protect nature
Today, the Commission has launched together with partnering organisations the Destination Earth initiative to help tackling climate change. Supported with an initial €150 million from the Digital Europe Programme until mid-2024, the goal is to develop a highly accurate digital model of the Earth.
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#1339042022-03-31
One Question: “What Should Be Done to Address Climate Change?”
We must protect our natural spaces. From wilderness to local parks, preserving more green space and water will help us fight the climate crisis—and bring health benefits to communities, conserve vulnerable wildlife and plant species, diversify and grow local economies, and provide more people ac ...
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#1337842022-03-08
How can innovation help turn climate emergency declarations into real actions?
Dr Xander Wang, Associate Professor at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, is leading the Climate Smart Lab to innovate smart technologies supporting climate change adaptation at regional and local scales.
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#1337852022-03-08
Shocking climate change records from 2021 we can't ignore
There is no denying it: 2021 was an alarming year for the planet. From apocalyptic storms to deadly floods, a deluge of extreme weather shook the world.
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#1337882022-03-08
Washington Wineries Considering Dramatic Changes for Climate Change
Dick Boushey has been growing wine grapes in Yakima and Benton counties for more than 40 years. The 70-year-old Boushey and his employees grow 23 grape varieties on vineyards stretching over 295 acres.
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#1337892022-03-08
Climate change will fuel greater displacement
For the first time, there is high confidence among scientists that the impacts of climate change are increasingly driving displacement in all regions of the world.