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#1323882022-01-11
Climate change will lead to more kidney stones: study
Rising temperatures from climate change will lead to more kidney stone cases, a new study has found. Dr. Gregory Tasian is a pediatric urologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the lead author of the study, which was published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.
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#1323892022-01-11
How climate change could hinder reforestation efforts, according to experts
Scientists are researching how to promote global diversity amid warming temperatures, but some of the methods that could prove effective may be further hindered by climate change, according to new research.
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#1323902022-01-11
2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record as emissions surge
The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Union scientists have said.
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#1323932022-01-11
US hit by 20 separate billion-dollar climate disasters in 2021, NOAA report says
The US was battered by 20 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021, one of the most catastrophic climate years on record which led to at least 688 deaths, according to the annual report of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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#1323942022-01-11
Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year
The world’s oceans have been set to simmer, and the heat is being cranked up. Last year saw the hottest ocean temperatures in recorded history, the sixth consecutive year that this record has been broken, according to new research.
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#1323992022-01-11
Winds of change bring winter rain to eastern Arabia
Warmer waters in the central tropical Pacific in recent decades have led to shifts in atmospheric wind jets, bringing more winter rainfall to the eastern Arabian Peninsula and less to the south.
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#1324022022-01-11
New Zealand summers are getting hotter, and humans aren't the only ones feeling the effects
It's not a mirage, our summers are getting hotter on average and we are experiencing more extremely hot days. News from NIWA that 2021 was New Zealand's hottest year on record fits with the long term trend.
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#1324152022-01-11
Drop in Rain Forest Productivity Could Speed Future Climate Change
Tropical forests host a rich diversity of plant and animal life and process vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2). Therefore, researchers have been particularly interested in how these ecosystems might be affected by climate change.
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#1323542022-01-07
More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years.
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#1323582022-01-07
Indigenous communities at higher risk of climate change-induced flooding, study shows
A recent study is shining a light on the disparities in which communities in Canada will be hardest hit by climate change. The study, published last month in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science and led by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, found that Indigenous ...
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#1323662022-01-07
Protecting nature’s best carbon sink: Peatlands
The ground beneath your feet squishes and bounces as you walk, holding you up with water-saturated moss. Below you, layered up to 65 feet deep in the ground, lies one of Earth’s greatest treasures: peat.
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#1323752022-01-07
Managing for climate change with the resist–accept–direct framework
Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Global change increasingly propels ecosystems on strong trajectories toward irreversible ecological transformations.
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#1323352022-01-06
‘The ducklings might not survive’: readers’ concerns over early spring
I saw this young palmate newt emerging on the evening of 1 January. Newts should be overwintering in leaf and log piles, compost heaps and other suitable refugia from November until late February or early March, when they start moving toward breeding pools.
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#1323482022-01-06
Italian Winemakers Are Finding Creative Ways to Battle Climate Change Amid Worrying Reports
In April of 2021, winemakers across Europe found themselves battling a freak late frost. At Tenuta di Trinoro, a vineyard in Tuscany, it took a 24-strong team several hours one blistering cold night to set out and light up 3,500 candles to keep the fragile young buds of the vines from freezing. ...
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#1323492022-01-06
Lakes are losing their ice cover faster than ever — here’s what that means for us
Every winter when Lake Suwa in Japan freezes, locals believe that the Shinto male god Takeminakata crosses the frozen lake with his dragon to visit the female god Yasakatome. He leaves only his footsteps on the ice in the form of a sinusoidal ice ridge called the omiwatari.
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#1322772022-01-04
When Climate Change Meets Geopolitics
Deteriorating security in Ethiopia, a country W.E.B. Dubois once described as where “the sunrise of human culture took place,” is deeply concerning. The last few months have seen a dramatic involution for a country that was once a poster child for sustainable development.
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#1322782022-01-04
Is this winter's mild weather linked to climate change?
The last weeks have seen unusually mild winter weather - and record-breaking temperatures - but is the warm spell linked to climate change?
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#1322792022-01-04
Top 2021 climate realities demand a New Year's resolution for our planet
When pondering resolutions for a new year, it can be helpful to review the year gone by. In the case of 2021, one of the most striking realizations is that we’ve clearly entered an era of extreme weather disasters supercharged by accelerating climate change.
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#1322802022-01-04
We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers pointed out dead puffin chicks.
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#1322812022-01-04
Wales plans to offer ‘free trees for every household’ to fight climate change. But scientists warn of downsides if planned poorly
Wales is best known for its castles, coal mines and sheep. But the Welsh government is hoping to add something else to that list: trees.
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#1322822022-01-04
Warming Lakes Are Losing Oxygen. Climate Change & Pollution Are To Blame.
On a sweltering morning last July, thousands of dead fish washed onto the northeastern shores of Pokegama Lake, 60 miles north of Minneapolis.
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#1322862022-01-04
Dam it: beavers head north to the Arctic as tundra continues to heat up
The transformation of the rapidly warming Arctic is being accelerated by a wave of thousands of newcomers that are waddling and paddling northwards: beavers.
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#1322922022-01-04
Climate change disasters cost the world over $100 billion this year
This past year saw an inundation of climate disasters worldwide. Changing weather patterns have led to extreme events like hurricanes in the US Northeast and floods inundated cities across Europe, which caught many residents off guard.
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#1322942022-01-04
December in Texas hottest on record in more than 130 years
Last month Texas experienced its warmest December on record since 1889, said John Nielsen-Gammon, a regents professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University who also serves as the state climatologist.
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#1322952022-01-04
Agricultural and industrial sources as the main cause to the soaring atmospheric methane
In a paper published in National Science Review, an international team of scientists evaluated scenarios about what is causing methane concentrations to rapidly increase in the atmosphere.
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#1323042022-01-04
Climate Change led ancient lions and bears to extinction
A new study published in the journal Marine Ecology has found that a change in climate is the most likely cause of the mysterious disappearance of ancient brown bears and lions from North America about a millennium before the last Ice Age.
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#1322632021-12-22
Climate change in 2021: There's no turning back now
Across a quarter century of U.N. climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen in 2009), another a stunning success (Paris in 2015) and the rest landed somewhere in between.
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#1322742021-12-22
Understanding the Glasgow Climate Pact of COP 26
While COP 26 has come and gone, and the world leaders have since returned to their duty posts, the key question Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and other civil society organisations that attended COP 26 are asking is if the Nigerian government and other governments of the world will be able to m ...
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#1322402021-12-21
To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn
Governmental actions have fueled skepticism about Brazil’s real commitment to its climate goals and pledges the country embraced at the COP26 U.N. climate summit.
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#1322412021-12-21
E.P.A. Announces Tightest-Ever Auto Pollution Rules
Under the new plan, designed to reduce planet-warming tailpipe emissions, new vehicles would be required to average 55 miles per gallon starting in 2026.
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#1322422021-12-21
Shoots and roots respond differently to climate change
A new synthesis conducted by a group of international scientists including Madhav P. Thakur from the University of Bern reveals mismatches between above and belowground plant phenology due to climate change. These findings are important to understand the consequences of climate change on terrest ...
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#1322442021-12-21
By ditching landmark climate legislation, America makes the world unsafe
The rest of the world needs to start treating the US as what it is: a dangerous country that needs to be reined in.
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#1322462021-12-21
ASEAN conference calls for acceleration in climate cooperation
The ASEAN Secretariat has organised the 17th Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOC-COM) via video teleconference to discuss the future of climate change cooperation in the region.
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#1322552021-12-21
Climate change could mean some Arctic animals will be more vulnerable to disease spread by insects: researcher
The field of pathogens in northern wildlife is ripe for further study, according to some scientists
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#1322312021-12-20
Extreme droughts also afflicting Leipzig floodplain forest
The Leipzig floodplain forest was not equipped to endure two consecutive hotter drought years. Although the trees were able to partially cope with the 2018 drought, the accumulated and ongoing damage from drought stress caused their growth to collapse in the second drought year 2019.
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#1322332021-12-20
2021: when the link between the climate and biodiversity crises became clear
If there was ever any doubt about the inextricable link between the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, those doubts were well and truly dispelled in 2021.
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#1322352021-12-20
Ocean-Based Carbon Removal Deserves a Closer Look
Could the oceans—where life once evolved—help save the planet and humanity from climate catastrophe? A new report suggests they might.
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#1322082021-12-17
Ocean acidification disrupts fish shoals
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found that the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming.
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#1322092021-12-17
Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding
Research shows that national governments, investors and development organizations consider direct funding to Indigenous-led organizations as too risky, though a new report shows that Indigenous communities with good project management skills exist.
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#1322122021-12-17
Climate change, poor housing fuelling energy concerns for First Nations communities
More than 90 per cent of households surveyed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory had their electricity disconnected over a 12-month period, according to a new study investigating the link between the problem and extreme temperatures.
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#1322152021-12-17
State changes gears to tackle climate change
PANJIM: With climate change emerging as a major concern, the State Forest Department is looking to ensure real time mapping and monitoring of various weather parameters to ascertain the impact on biodiversity.
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#1321992021-12-16
Strategic Forest Reserves Could Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity
Researchers call for the creation of strategic forest reserves in the western United States.
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#1321742021-12-15
Watch: India votes against UNSC draft resolution to 'securitise' climate action
India on Monday voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council that attempted to "securitise" climate action and undermine the hard-won consensual agreements in Glasgow.
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#1321792021-12-15
Blue solution to humanity’s “code red” crisis
The heat dome over Canada’s Pacific Northwest that killed hundreds of humans and “cooked” one billion sea creatures; Europe’s catastrophic floods; and the worst wildfires in almost a decade could become our new normal.
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#1321802021-12-15
Scientists urge creating strategic forest reserves to mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity
The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University ecologist.
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#1321812021-12-15
Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
Talking about who is responsible for climate change is a fraught debate – even more so when it comes to who ought to pay for the damage it causes.
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#1321832021-12-15
Climate tech investment is soaring this year — but might not be going to the right areas, PwC says
The average size of a climate tech deal almost quadrupled to $96 million in the first half of 2021, up from $27 million one year prior, PwC said.
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#1321852021-12-15
Adam Hardie: Tackling food waste is elephant in room in climate change fight
While world leaders congregated in Glasgow to thrash out climate talks and debate the future of our planet, it was a piece of art out with the SEC campus which held the most poignant message for me: food waste is a bigger contributor to climate change than plastic.
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#1321862021-12-15
Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm
Wilder winds are altering currents. The sea is releasing carbon dioxide. Ice is melting from below.
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#1321892021-12-15
Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the dagger.”