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#1326602022-01-20
Cornwall's rockpool species 'threatened by climate change'
A study has suggested that many rockpool species are threatened by climate change and would not survive crossing the Channel's currents. The University of Exeter's study focused on the St Piran's hermit crab, which appeared in Cornwall in 2016.
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#1326612022-01-20
Climate Change Could Lead To Blackouts & Higher Power Costs On West Coast
Two new studies led by a North Carolina State University researcher offer a preview of what electricity consumers on the West Coast could experience under two different future scenarios: one where excessive heat due to climate change strains power supplies, and one where the grid shifts toward r ...
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#1326632022-01-20
New York’s Central Park Becomes a Living Climate Laboratory
Scientists will study how rising temperatures affect trees, plants, wildlife and humans who use the park. Central Park means a lot of things to New Yorkers: playground, meeting place, natural oasis, arts venue and movie set, to name just a few.
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#1326642022-01-20
Maya octopus could leave Yucatan due to climate change
For many it goes unnoticed, but climate change is a serious threat in Yucatan , and as an example, the octopus endemic to the region, the Maya Octopus, sensitive to temperature changes, can “abandon” the local coast in the next 50 years and migrate to other areas to survive.
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#1326652022-01-20
To Combat The Climate Crisis, Companies Must Lead
The climate crisis is real and is impacting everyone on the planet. While the individual choice to live a sustainable life is commendable, businesses also have a critical role to play. They must help protect our planet for future generations, securing the economy, protecting their businesses and ...
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#1326832022-01-20
Egyptian Prime Minister Reviews Egypt's Efforts to Face Climate Change During the Fourth Edition of the World Youth Forum
The Egyptian President Abdel Fatah ElSisi attended the main session titled 'From Glasgow to Sharm El Sheikh: Combating Climate Change' during the second-day activities of the World Youth Forum, which was held last week in the resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, under the slogan 'Back Together'.
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#1326842022-01-20
People haven't just made the planet hotter. We've changed the way it rains.
You probably noticed a lot of weird weather in 2021. From record-breaking deluges and tropical storms to drought-stricken landscapes that erupted in wildfire, the nation seemed to lurch from one weather-related disaster to the next.
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#1326022022-01-19
2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO
Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on ...
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#1326032022-01-19
Climate change will limit choice for Winter Games hosts, says study
Of the 21 cities to host the Winter Olympics, only Sapporo, Japan would be able to provide fair and safe conditions to stage them again by the end of the century if greenhouse gases are not dramatically reduced, said a University of Waterloo study released on Tuesday.
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#1326062022-01-19
Documentary examines Cuba’s 21st-century plan to combat climate change
Cuba’s location in the Caribbean Sea makes it especially vulnerable to the impacts of global warming, but the island nation has embarked on a plan to combat that threat that began in 2017 and is envisioned to span the entire 21st century.
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#1326072022-01-19
Climate change, extreme weather among top risks facing humanity: 3 stories you may have missed
Climate change and environmental degradation are among the gravest threats to humanity, says a new report.
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#1326232022-01-19
Transforming a ghost village with hill-centric livelihood and tourism opportunities
India’s northern state of Uttarakhand, known as the Land of Gods, is facing the dual challenge of climate change and migration. The incidence of glacier bursts, flash floods, unseasonal torrential rains, forest fires, and landslides have swelled in the state. The dwindling population is another ...
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#1326242022-01-19
In Africa, temperatures rise, but adaptation lags on West’s funding failure
For Africa, 2021 was the third-warmest year on record, tied with 2019. Even as the continent clocks record-breaking temperatures, adaptation efforts are failing to keep pace, marred by planning gaps and financing woes.
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#1326302022-01-19
Ocean heat is at record levels, with major consequences
The world witnessed record-breaking climate and weather disasters in 2021, from destructive flash floods that swept through mountain towns in Europe and inundated subway systems in China and the U.S., to heat waves and wildfires. Typhoon Rai killed over 400 people in the Philippines; Hurricane I ...
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#1326332022-01-19
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho: It will take diverse networks to solve global threats like climate change
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.
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#1326342022-01-19
'There's a shift happening': McCain and food's old guard look to the future as climate change threatens crops
Among the flurry of futuristic investments that Canadian French fry empire McCain Foods Ltd. has been making, probably the most interesting has been an indoor lettuce farm.
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#1326352022-01-19
Lumber Prices Are off the Rails Again. Blame Climate Change.
Last year, lumber turned into the surprise superstar of the U.S. economy when it briefly outperformed bitcoin, gold, and the S&P 500 to become “the hottest commodity on the planet.”
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#1326362022-01-19
8 Ways to Make Tackling Climate Change Your Top Priority in 2022
If 2021 was the wake up call, then 2022 is the year of taking the urgent action needed to combat climate change. The past year has been rife with alarming extreme weather events and rapidly changing weather patterns that have brought urgent action to tackle climate change to the top of the world ...
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#1325842022-01-18
Climate change is creating security threats around the world – and militaries are responding
The British military is currently “too slow and resistant to change”, according to Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the UK’s chief of defence staff. The urgent always takes priority over the important. But in the context of one of the world’s biggest security issues – climate change – threats and adapt ...
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#1325852022-01-18
What's the real role of volcanoes in climate change?
The volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma caused widespread havoc for nearly three months, but did its emissions have any impact on Earth's atmosphere longer term?
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#1325862022-01-18
Climate change: Global warming 'could reach 4C by end of this century' after COP26 fell short of its aims, say experts
There could be global warming of 4C by the end of this century despite pledges made at the COP26 climate summit, according to a new report.
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#1325312022-01-17
The Climate Conversation No One Wants
The U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, brought a series of positive steps for implementing the Paris Agreement. It also reinvigorated U.S.-China cooperation and offered opportunities for voluntary initiatives on methane and forests.
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#1325342022-01-17
To survive climate change, Venice needs to rethink its outdated flood defenses
The 3rd of October, 2020, was a momentous day for Venetians. A high tide had been predicted, which would normally have seen low-lying areas of the city under several inches of water. On this day, however, the streets remained miraculously dry.
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#1325352022-01-17
State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2021
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of the planet.
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#1325362022-01-17
Tongan volcano's eruption unlikely to cool down climate change
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) believes the major natural disaster centred around Tonga will not contribute to Earth’s temperature cooling significantly.
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#1324852022-01-14
The solution to climate change will be people-powered. Here's why
In our critically endangered world, there is no version of the future in which humanity can continue as it has always done. The climate crisis was created by the actions of people, and it is people who are going to have to act to manage its impact.
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#1324862022-01-14
Study: Climate change alters tiger shark migration routes
The new study, published on 13 January 2022 in the journal Global Change Biology and conducted by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, revealed that rising ocean temperatures due to climate change have significantly changed the locations and ...
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#1324872022-01-14
Companies Across The Globe Feeling The Climate Change Heat
As the climate crisis exacerbates weather conditions, businesses around the world are beginning to feel the heat. On home turf, the financial impact of climate risks to Indian companies is calculated to be around Rs 7,138 billion, according to a 2020 report by Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).
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#1324902022-01-14
Creating A Microclimate To Fight Climate Change
In 1982, when David and Margery bought their little house in an ex-public housing estate, they could look out of their bedroom windows and see what everyone had worn for the week, because you could see everyone’s washing on the lines in their backyards. His love of nature was developed in early ...
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#1324962022-01-14
Concerns for life in Western Australia’s Pilbara after 50.7C heat record matched
The Bureau of Meteorology is working to verify readings showing the northern Western Australia town of Onslow has matched the record for the hottest day in Australia, prompting calls to make living with extreme heatwaves in the Pilbara more sustainable.
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#1324972022-01-14
World’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis: 10 underreported emergencies
From Afghanistan to Ethiopia, about 235 million people worldwide needed assistance in 2021. But while some crises received global attention, others are lesser known.
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#1325082022-01-14
Climate change: Inadequate governmental response is causing climate anxiety in young people
Governments around the world must protect the mental health of young people by taking action against climate change, a study from The Lancet Planetary Health has concluded.
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#1325092022-01-14
The world's insatiable appetite for electricity is setting up a climate disaster
A report published Friday by the International Energy Agency found that global demand for electricity surged 6% in 2021, fueled by a colder winter and the dramatic economic rebound from the pandemic. That drove both prices and carbon emissions to new records.
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#1324632022-01-13
Canada needs a national tracking system to better fight climate change. Here’s why
A new report suggests Canada is not doing enough to adapt to and prevent the effects of climate change and is lacking the critical data it needs to do so.
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#1324652022-01-13
How shea trees can help combat climate change
You’ve most likely used a shea product today, possibly without even knowing. You probably know it’s in a lot of beauty products like creams and emollients. But the vast majority of shea goes into foodstuffs like chocolate, confectionery products, pastries, margarines, and vegan products. Shea bu ...
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#1324662022-01-13
Record number of Americans alarmed about climate crisis, report finds
A new report has revealed that a record number of Americans are now alarmed about the climate crisis. The study, published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, found that Americans overall are becoming increasingly worried about global heating, more engaged with the issue and mor ...
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#1324672022-01-13
FEATURE-Nepal's blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather
In the 15 years Chitra Bhan Khatri has been keeping bees in west Nepal, he never had trouble providing food for his insects - until last year, when unseasonally heavy rain left his honeybees hungry.
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#1324782022-01-13
Australia matches its hottest day on record as Western Australia town goes above 50C
Australia has matched its hottest ever reliably recorded temperature, with Onslow airport near the remote West Australian town of Onslow registering 50.7C.
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#1324822022-01-13
Forests in Western Himalayan Region & Northeastern States Among India's Climate Change Hotspots: ISFR-2021
Forests in the western Himalayan region and the northeastern states are consistently appearing as climate change hotspots across various climate scenarios in three selected time horizons, according to the India State of Forest Report 2021 (ISFR-2021) released on Thursday.
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#1324162022-01-12
Earth's Black Box Warns of Planet's End Due to Climate Change
In autumn 2021, as leaders from across the globe converged on Glasgow to talk about the impact of human-caused climate change, a coalition of artists, architects and researchers in Australia devised a way to document the apocalypse. How? By storing data in a massive metal monolith in Tasmania, a ...
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#1324192022-01-12
How climate change led one Perth baker to sell smaller loaves
They say a half a loaf is better than none, but a Perth, Ont., baker isn't so sure his customers will agree. For the first time in 30 years, Graham Beck is baking smaller loaves in his ovens, and he thinks the problem can be linked directly to climate change.
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#1324302022-01-12
‘Extraordinarily warm’: winter is fastest-heating season in most of US
American winters are rapidly warming and December 2021 was no exception. In New York, last month’s average temperature was 43.8F (6.5C) – 4.7F above the 1991-to-2020 average according to a recent analysis by Climate Central. The American south had an especially warm December, with Shreveport, Lo ...
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#1324412022-01-12
The devastating mudslides that follow forest fires
The summer of 2021 brought ideal fire weather to southern British Columbia in Canada. A dome of hot, high-pressure air settled over the area, sending temperatures soaring into record territory after months of drought.
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#1324532022-01-12
Climate change: Thawing permafrost a triple-threat
Thawing Arctic permafrost laden with billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases not only threatens the region's critical infrastructure but life across the planet, according a comprehensive scientific review.
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#1323822022-01-11
Climate Change: Last 7 Years Have Been Hottest On Record, Say Scientists
Fresh climatic data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has revealed that the last seven years were the hottest recorded ones to date. Being called 'another nail in the planetary coffin' by scientists, the data reflects the rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide an ...
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#1323832022-01-11
Meet the scientist moms fighting climate change for their children
Joellen Russell likes a big class. The bigger the better, actually, with online sections and huge auditoriums and students swarming her after a lecture – the way they did one Thursday morning this fall after her Intro to Oceanography course at the University of Arizona.
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#1323842022-01-11
After Record-Breaking Heat in 2021, Strategy Shares Launches Its Fight Against Climate Change
Rob Gough, a portfolio manager for Strategy Shares’ newest ETF NZRO, has experience as an actor and serial entrepreneur, and is well acquainted with the plotlines of action-thriller Hollywood disaster films. He currently co-stars alongside Bruce Willis in the movie American Siege. Yet, despite w ...
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#1323852022-01-11
World Economic Forum warns cyber risks add to climate threat
Cybersecurity and space are emerging risks to the global economy, adding to existing challenges posed by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic, the World Economic Forum said in a report Tuesday.
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#1323862022-01-11
'Heartbreaking' loss: Climate crisis spurs push for compensation
Throughout 2021, a slew of hurricanes, floods and forest fires brought one fact into sharp focus: The climate crisis isn't a problem for the future, it's a problem for right now.
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#1323872022-01-11
How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
The climate crisis is set to profoundly alter the world around us. Humans will not be the only species to suffer from the calamity. Huge waves of die-offs will be triggered across the animal kingdom as coral reefs turn ghostly white and tropical rainforests collapse.