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#1230442019-11-18
Climate Change Is Going to Supercharge Waves
For surfers looking to ride them, and inhabitants of low-lying coasts hoping to avoid them, waves are best when they are predictable. While it has long been possible to forecast the surf a few days out, projecting how climate change will affect the behavior of waves in the coming decades has bee ...
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#1237252020-01-15
Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
At the northern edge of the Alps, ski runs near the foot of Germany’s highest mountain snake down the greenish-brown slopes in narrow white ribbons of artificial snow.
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#1220432019-08-29
Climate Change Is Likely to Devastate the Global Food Supply. But There's Still Reason to Be Hopeful
The most troubling paradox of the 21st century may be that human population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion by midcentury — yet the global food supply is predicted to plummet.
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#1303732021-09-13
Climate Change Is Making India’s West Coast More Vulnerable to Cyclones
A new study found significant increases in the intensity, frequency, and duration of cyclonic storms over the Arabian Sea. Is the west coast prepared?
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#1240912020-02-05
Climate Change Is Moving Russia's Taiga North, Scientists Warn
The Taiga forests of Siberia have expanded north toward the Arctic as a result of warming temperatures over the past four decades, a team of Russian and Finnish scientists has said.
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#1221562019-09-10
Climate Change Is Reducing The Beach Area At Ballena Marine National Park, Costa Rica
Vicente Vargas, 54-years-old, has witnessed the constantly changing sea in the area currently occupied by Ballena Marine National Park. This park is located four hours away from San José, Costa Rica’s capital city.
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#1236062020-01-07
Climate Change Is Science Not Politics. So Can We Talk About It Yet?
The time to talk about and act on climate change is now. While the corporations are still polluting, while the politicians are still delaying, and while the fires are still burning. We have no other choice, writes Rosie Latimer.
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#1226232019-10-11
Climate Change Is Shaping Up As an Utter Disaster for Much of America's Bird Life
Sanderlings, red-headed woodpeckers and great gray owls are just a few of the North American bird species projected to be threatened by climate change in the coming decades, according to the latest assessment depicting an increasingly dire situation for the continent’s avian wildlife.
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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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#1195442019-01-23
Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
Ever since human-caused climate change emerged into public consciousness around the late 1980s, news stories and public awareness campaigns surrounding the topic have predominantly been accompanied by images of polar bears and melting ice, reinforcing common misconceptions that the impacts are f ...
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#1199852019-02-18
Climate Change Isn’t Just Frying the Planet—It’s Fraying Our Nerves
Over the last year, Rebecca, a 35-year-old woman living in Washington, DC, had been losing sleep over the seemingly endless flow of apocalyptic environmental news. She fretted about the Trump administration’s loosening of emissions regulations and the United Nations’ dire predictions about clima ...
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#1270902021-02-16
Climate Change Likely Drove The Extinction Of North America’s Megafauna
A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas.
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#1205302019-03-27
Climate Change Matters for Real Estate — Just Not the Way You Might Think
Climate change will affect coastal businesses. But don’t bet on it hurting their landlords.Analysts have spent years warning that the costs of climate change will pile up for real estate investors, as rising sea levels cause severe weather and flood damage.
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#1279012021-04-06
Climate Change May Double The Number Of Lighting Strikes In The Arctic
Lightning strikes are an extremely rare phenomenon in the Arctic Circle – but as the global climate has begun to warm, these events have become more common. Just in 2019, lighting hit 483 kilometers (300 miles) of the North Pole, the northernmost instance on record.
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#1274392021-03-02
Climate Change May Reduce Children’s Diet Diversity
When it comes to improving nutrition in marginalized communities, education and infrastructure are some of the first investment targets that come to mind. But these kinds of efforts are not sustainable unless they take into account the differing impacts of climate change on local communities.
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#1304312021-09-15
Climate Change Means More Subway Floods; How Cities Are Adapting
Millions of people rely on subways for transportation. But as the world warms, climate-driven flooding in subways is becoming more and more common. NPR correspondents Lauren Sommer and Rebecca Hersher talk about how cities across the world are adapting.
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#1202832019-03-11
Climate Change Might Be Messing Up Snowflakes As We Know Them, But You Can Help
As another erratic winter draws to a close, it’s time to consider a lesser-known possible effect of climate change: misshapen snowflakes.
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#1285182021-05-11
Climate Change Modeling of “Degrowth” Scenarios – Reduction in GDP, Energy and Material Use
The first comprehensive comparison of ‘degrowth’ scenarios with established pathways to limit climate change highlights the risk of over-reliance on carbon dioxide removal, renewable energy, and energy efficiency to support continued global growth — which is assumed in established global climate ...
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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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#1352572022-07-06
Climate Change Plays a Major Role in the Distribution of Holoparasitic Plants and Their Obligate Host
Predicting the impact of climate change is essential to the establishment of efficient conservation and management plans to maintain the present biodiversity and avoid extensive extinction.
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#1275722021-03-05
Climate Change Possibly Caused Atlantic Warming During Pre-Industrial Era
A group of climate scientists analyzing a wide range of climate modeling experiments have found that volcanic eruptions, and not natural variability, caused an evident 'Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation,' a so-called cycle of warming considered to have taken place for about 40 to 60 years during ...
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#1256222020-11-09
Climate Change Predicted to Worsen Habitat Loss for Various Species
According to new research, birds, amphibians, and mammals around the world have lost, on average, 18% of their natural habitat range due to variations in land use and climate change.
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#1341892022-04-25
Climate Change Projection Shows Piraeus, Thessaloniki Under Water
Climate change models created by Climate Central, an independent organization of top scientists and journalists, show the devastation that rising sea levels could cause on coastal cities, including those in Greece, such as Piraeus and Thessaloniki.
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#1198862019-02-11
Climate Change Seen as Top Threat in Global Survey
Climate change is seen as the biggest international threat facing many nations, according to a 26-country survey released by the Pew Research Center on Sunday.
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#1282912021-04-27
Climate Change Solutions Must Include People with Disabilities
When natural disasters and other emergencies hit, resources become scarce, and, too often, people with disabilities cannot access them. As global warming continues to drive up temperatures and sea levels around the world, discussions of climate resilience and adaptation must do better to include ...
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#1253122020-04-29
Climate Change Threatens Drinking Water Quality Across the Great Lakes
“Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil” is not what anyone wants to hear about their city’s tap water. But the combined effects of climate change and degraded water quality could make such warnings more frequent across the Great Lakes region.
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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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#1278282021-03-29
Climate Change Threatens Potato Chip Production, Global Food Storage
Climate change poses significant dangers to global food supplies as rising temperatures make storage more difficult, The Associated Press reports.
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#1213682019-06-21
Climate Change Throws a Wrench in Everglades Restoration
The drought and heat that drove a recent massive seagrass die-off could become more common in the future
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#1241742020-02-14
Climate Change Tracker: India’s future losses
In last week’s column, I had written about the massive financial losses that the world, and India, has been incurring due to climate change. A major new study published in the interim gives us a sense of just how much worse this can get by 2050.
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#1223042019-09-20
Climate Change Tracker: The forest’s keepers
Whenever climate change mitigation tactics are discussed, one plan that inevitably comes up is that of carbon capture. An easier method to curb carbon emissions is to keep the carbon in the ground.
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#1229302019-11-08
Climate Change Tracker: The trouble with fashion
The fashion industry is a massive greenhouse gas emitter, but the full extent of the problem is only just coming to light.You might have read about Extinction Rebellion activists staging a protest outside the Victoria Beckham show at September’s London Fashion Week.
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#1228442019-11-01
Climate Change Tracker: To bee or not to bee
Whenever we talk about the effects of climate change on animal species, the urge is to focus on flagship species like the tiger or the snow leopard. While that is a valid way to look at Earth’s ongoing ecocide, we often neglect the smallest creatures.
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#1273862021-02-26
Climate Change Tracker: Why 2021 is a crucial year to stop global warming
2021 is already shaping up as an important year for climate change mitigation. As scientist and author Michael E. Mann wrote in Newsweek a few days ago, this year could well mark the tipping point for climate action. This is in no small degree a result of the US rejoining the 2015 Paris Agreemen ...
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#1275472021-03-05
Climate Change Will Cost Companies $1.3 Trillion By 2026
While the impacts of Covid-19 became the forefront of disruptive forces experienced within the past year, this period of unprecedented havoc also bred growing concerns around environmental anomalies, among other geopolitical issues.
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#1222182019-09-13
Climate Change Will Create 1.5 Billion Migrants by 2050 and We Have No Idea Where They'll Go
The climate crisis has already created millions of invisible refugees and could create up to 1.5 billion more in the next 30 years. But under international law no country is obliged to take them in.
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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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#1230452019-11-18
Climate Change Will Make Us Sicker and Lose Work Hours
Experts have given the United States a warning: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or suffer the consequences of lower productivity and a sicker population for generations to come.
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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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#1293842021-06-16
Climate Change Would be an Olympics Issue, New Study Finds
Heat and humidity could pose an additional risk to athletes at this summer’s planned Tokyo Olympics, a new report published by the British Association for Sustainable Sport found. The impacts from the rapidly rising temperatures could cause health problems.
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#1302152021-09-01
Climate Change a 'Child Rights Crisis,' UNICEF Says
Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer. Teacher. Artist. Astronaut. These are just a few of the most common careers to which kids aspire. At the rate things on Earth are going, however, there’s just one thing that millions of children are destined to become: climate refugees
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#1300502021-08-19
Climate Change and Bedouin Communities in the Jordan Valley
Several climate-change trends are expected to intensify throughout the West Bank in the coming years. These include uneven rainfall distribution, a decrease in natural grazing areas and vegetation cover, droughts, and extreme weather conditions.
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#1304772021-09-20
Climate Change and Cherries
What do cherries have to do with climate change? Youth Climate Corps (YCC) crew members in Kimberley/Cranbrook can answer that question, after spending eight days on food recovery projects – two of them spent salvaging cherries and sharing them with a healthy food sharing initiative.
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#1276762021-03-15
Climate Change and Erosion: How to Save the Earth from These Problems
Presently, the Earth is facing the possibility of extreme erosion of soil, although this time, the danger is intensified by climate change.
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#1277092021-03-16
Climate Change and Geopolitics: Monitoring of a Thawing Permafrost
Permafrost thaw is one of the world’s most pressing climate problems, already disrupting lifestyles, livelihoods, economies, and ecosystems in the north, and threatening to spill beyond the boundaries of the Arctic as our planet continues to warm.
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#1230532019-11-19
Climate Change and Loss of Species: Our Greatest Challenges
Mottled and reddish, the Lake Oku puddle frog has made its tragic debut on the Red List, a rapidly expanding roll call of threatened species. It was once abundant in the Kilum-Ijim rainforest of Cameroon but has not been seen since 2010 and is now listed as critically endangered and possibly ext ...
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#1205122019-03-26
Climate Change and Migration Project Launched to Protect, Empower Pacific Communities
Suva – IOM and key partners launched a three-year regional project in Suva, Fiji today (26/03) to help Pacific Island governments to address multi-faceted challenges associated with climate change and disaster-related migration, displacement and planned relocation in the region.
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#1194192019-01-16
Climate Change and a Salty Dilemma
As the threat of water scarcity increasingly grows, many have turned to the Earth’s plentiful oceans for a solution. However, this has created a new risk threatening public and environmental health: brine.
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#1350692022-06-28
Climate Change and the Affordable Housing Crisis
1 in 10 residential properties in the United States was impacted by natural disasters in 2021 alone. The climate crisis has exacerbated economic and social disparities within the country, directly affecting the human right to adequate housing.
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#1341042022-04-18
Climate Change is Killing Trees
A long time ago in the Milky Way galaxy on a planet named Earth the trees died. It only happened once in the planet’s history. It was during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago.