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#1207192019-04-10
Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints
Next generation must keep their own carbon levels at a fraction of their grandparents’ in order to prevent catastrophe.Children born today will have to live their lives with drastically smaller carbon footprints than their grandparents if climate change is to be controlled.
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#1207222019-04-10
Climate change in the subarctic: warmer lakes pose a danger to cold-water fish populations
Climate change is often presented primarily as a problem for future generations. However, it is already affecting our lakes in the Nordic countries in a disturbing way.
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#1207302019-04-11
Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design
What could be more important than sustaining habitable living conditions on Earth? Climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental problems demand changes on an order of magnitude well beyond the trajectory of business-as-usual. And yet, despite accumulative social and technological in ...
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#1207382019-04-11
How some birds are responding to climate change
One of the great concerns that ornithologists have is that climate change will throw the nesting activities of birds out of sync with the availability of food for the raising of chicks. For one species, the pied flycatcher, a new study shows that some of its clan are proving to be remarkably ada ...
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#1207392019-04-11
Canada's building code is getting a climate change rewrite. Is your home ready?
From how concrete is mixed for road construction, to roofing standards enabling buildings to withstand stronger storms and plans to help homeowners manage increased flooding, Canada's building rules are being rewritten due to climate change, according to briefing notes for a senior government of ...
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#1207402019-04-11
George Monbiot Q + A – How rejuvenating nature could help fight climate change
Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands. This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive. Stephen Woroniecki – a PhD Researcher in Climate Change Adaptation from ...
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#1207462019-04-12
Climate change now a fact of life in Atlantic Canada fishery
Canada's fisheries minister says the impacts of climate change are a fact of life that will have to be factored in the management of Canada's multi-billion dollar seafood industry."That variable of climate change is new and it's a new variable we didn't have to account for in the past. We're goi ...
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#1207532019-04-12
Massive reforestation to address climate change
As the world faces up to a biodiversity crisis that threatens humanity’s existence, a group of campaigners from across the world are saying there is one clear way to get us out of this mess and is “Massive Reforestation.”
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#1207552019-04-12
The climate strikes are what we’ve all been waiting for
For the last 20 to 30 years the environmental movement has been waiting for the public to care about the climate The generation with the most to lose from continued inaction on climate change is stepping forward with bold demands for the world to act with urgency. And this is exactly what we’ve ...
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#1207592019-04-12
How to talk about climate change
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report last fall warning of a catastrophic effect on the world's people, environment and economy if temperatures rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, which could happen as soon as 2040.
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#1207632019-04-15
Thousands join Extinction Rebellion protests across London
Thousands of people have joined a “climate rebellion” in London, blocking traffic and disrupting “business as usual” to demand action over the escalating ecological crisis.
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#1207652019-04-15
3 ways to combat climate change according to young activists
Young people have a lot more life to live, but if we don't address climate change, the planet they live on will look nothing like it does today. The good news is, a number of young people are putting up a fight.
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#1207662019-04-15
Climate Change Parallax
There exists a very seductive delusion that once we cool (or heat) the planet to the proper temperature that the majority of our ecological ills will be over. This is a dangerous self-dectption. “Climate change” per se is not the problem. Temperature fluctuations (increases) reflect underlying c ...
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#1207742019-04-15
A new chance for climate justice?
Demands for an unprecedented transformation of society have moved from the fringe ideas of eco-socialists to the mainstream debate in the Global North in the past year.
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#1208072019-04-17
Climate change targets are slipping out of reach
For all the commentary around a transition to a clean energy system, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is still continuing to rise rapidly and shows no sign of slowing down.
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#1208332019-04-24
Protecting nature also fights climate change, says federal environment minister
Carbon taxes aren’t the only way to fight climate change, says federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.
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#1208342019-04-24
Reducing Climate Change by Making it Less Abstract
There is no longer any doubt: the world is getting warmer, and humans are partially to blame.
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#1208352019-04-24
India’s water crisis is already here. Climate change will compound it.
Droughts and floods have pushed the nation’s leaky, polluted, and half-done water systems to the brink.
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#1208362019-04-24
Farmers become citizen scientists to adapt to climate change
Farmers in three countries, including in India, have turned into citizen scientists, helping generate data on crop varieties that adapt best to potential climatic changes.
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#1208492019-04-25
Sea animals are more vulnerable to warming than are land ones
The impact of climate change on biodiversity is a pressing concern. A study now combines experimental data with careful modelling to compare the vulnerability to warming of animal species on land and in the ocean.
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#1208552019-04-25
Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?
SCITUATE, R. I. — Foresters began noticing the patches of dying pines and denuded oaks, and grew concerned. Warmer winters and drier summers had sent invasive insects and diseases marching northward, killing the trees.
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#1208632019-04-25
Fighting climate change by tackling food waste
One-third of all food worldwide ends up in the garbage, with industrialized countries contributing the most. A new foodsharing platform wants to help tackle the impact this has on our climate.
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#1208682019-04-29
Climate change being fuelled by soil damage - report
Climate change can't be halted if we carry on degrading the soil, a report will say.
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#1208822019-04-30
Climate change is on the move — but the political debate is standing still
Voters' support for climate action still splits along left-right lines
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#1208852019-04-30
Sowing best practices for cleaner air and better resilience to climate change
Edmond Prifti, a Project and Investment Specialist based in Kolonja, Albania, has been trying for years to grow specific tree species in his municipality.
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#1208872019-04-30
Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release
This much is clear: the Arctic is warming fast, and frozen soils are starting to thaw, often for the first time in thousands of years. But how this happens is as murky as the mud that oozes from permafrost when ice melts.
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#1209012019-05-01
OPINION: The climate change frontline: farmers and forest communities
The future of global food supply and livelihoods of millions of people depend on bolder action from governments and industry to invest in forests and other natural climate solutions
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#1209022019-05-01
Cultural heritage and climate change
Climate change is raising risks to culture around the world, from historic landmarks facing worsening flooding or sea level rise to melting glaciers in national parks.
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#1209172019-05-02
Climate change has contributed to droughts since 1900—and may get worse
A first-of-its-kind study confirms the connection between climate change and droughts and deluges over the past century.
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#1209312019-05-03
The UK Has Declared a Climate Emergency: What Now?
We spoke to Labour and Green MPs about the realities of saving the world.
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#1209322019-05-03
Climate change may turn octopuses partially blind from lack of oxygen
Marine animals temporarily lose the ability to see when they enter water that is low in oxygen. The finding suggests the animals may struggle in the coming decades, as climate change is causing low-oxygen zones in the ocean to spread.
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#1209332019-05-03
Alaska's indigenous people feel the heat of climate change
The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak.
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#1209342019-05-03
How Climate Change Will Affect Real Lives — Now and in the Future
To better understand future climate projections, let’s look at how they may play out in the life of someone born in 2000.
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#1209362019-05-03
Climate crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists warn
‘We are in trouble if we don’t act,’ say experts, with up to 1m species at risk of annihilation
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#1209552019-05-06
Banana disease boosted by climate change
Climate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows.
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#1209562019-05-06
Kids can make sceptical parents change their minds on climate change
Schoolchildren around the world are going on strike to try to spur action on climate change. But what they do at school could also be really important.
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#1209572019-05-06
Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change
NEW DELHI — Climate change and rising sea levels eventually may wipe out one of the world’s last and largest tiger strongholds, scientists warned in a new study.
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#1209752019-05-08
US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds
The US is a hotbed of climate science denial when compared with other countries, with international polling finding a significant number of Americans do not believe human-driven climate change is occurring.
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#1209762019-05-08
U.S. blocking reference to climate change in Arctic conference statement amounts to a ‘moral failure’ says ICC president
The head of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has condemned the United States for blocking any reference to climate change at the end of a conference on the Arctic Tuesday.
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#1209772019-05-08
Aid funding must recognise climate change emergency, say MPs
‘Extreme, huge, and existential’ threat posed by climate change must be a central consideration when distributing aid
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#1209782019-05-08
Australia is being devastated by climate change. So will it swing the election?
Brisbane, Australia (CNN)"This is the climate election," declared Queensland Greens Sen. Larissa Waters at a Brisbane forum, weeks before the Australian election this month.
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#1209792019-05-08
Why jellyfish could be the biggest winners from climate change
Human beings don't do well when they try to understand things past a certain scale.
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#1209882019-05-08
Climate ‘biggest driver of migration’
Rising temperatures and weather-related disasters cause more migration than lack of income and political freedom, researchers say.
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#1209942019-05-09
Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt
WASHINGTON--Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China--the northernmost tree species on Earth - are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research.
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#1210002019-05-09
8 European nations urge EU to ramp up climate change fight
May 8 (UPI) -- The leaders of eight European countries are calling for the European Union to take stronger action to fight climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a net-zero level within three decades.
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#1210072019-05-10
Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.
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#1210082019-05-10
An idea to save coral reefs from climate change takes a step forward
Bleaching is bad for coral. It happens when heat-stressed polyps, the sessile animals that construct coral reefs, eject the photosynthetic algae which usually reside within them.
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#1210182019-05-10
Climate change: ‘A moral, ethical and economic imperative’ to slow global warming say UN leaders, calling for more action
Calling on Member States to take “urgent action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”, the leaders of more than 30 UN agencies and entities, issued a formal, joint appeal for governments everywhere to “step up ambition and take concrete action” ahead of the landm ...
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#1210192019-05-10
Global investors and UN launch guidance, metrics to help industry assess impacts from climate change
10 May 2019 – Twenty institutional investors from 11 countries convened by the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) today launched comprehensive investor guidance to help assess how climate change and climate action could impact investor portfolios around the world.
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#1210222019-05-10
Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.