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#1341652022-04-25
Climate Change is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds
As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get.
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#1273542021-02-25
Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Since the end of the last ice age, a swirling system of ocean-spanning currents has churned consistently in the Atlantic, distributing heat energy along the ocean surface from the tropics toward the poles, with heavy, cold water slowly flowing back toward the equator along the bottom of the sea.
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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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#1197582019-02-04
Climate Change may alter the taste of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
Climate expert Chris Brandolino, the principal scientist of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) told New Zealand TV’s 1 NEWS last week that the country’s wine growing areas were likely to see more rainfall during the wet season and drier dry seasons – which ...
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#1247152020-03-17
Climate Change to Affect Abundance of Common Boreal Plants
A recently published study predicts that understory species of boreal forests will migrate northwards, following the pace of global change. Southern species may become abundant in regions where they were rare before, while northern species may see their populations reduced in the absence of furt ...
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#1218042019-08-06
Climate Change to Cause Chaos in Africa, Warn Scientists
LONDON - Climate change will hit many African countries more severely than previously thought, according to a new report.
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#1265062020-12-29
Climate Change to Increase Disease Risk for Animals
A recently released study is calling attention to how changes in climate can cause an increase in infectious diseases in animals. The research also warns that these diseases could spread to humans, in much the same way viruses such as SARS, Ebola, and COVID-19 have.
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#1228962019-11-07
Climate Change to Make U.K. Heat Waves More Common and Intense
Britain’s record-breaking summer heat last year is set to happen more regularly and with more intensity because of climate change.That’s the conclusion of a study by the U.K.’s Met Office of the summer of 2018, which was tied for the hottest in more than a century. The report adds to a growing b ...
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#1219542019-08-20
Climate Change top of the agenda as Nordic ministers meet Germany's Merkel in Iceland
Nordic leaders are gathering in Iceland today to unite against a common threat: climate change.
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#1258722020-11-26
Climate Change – call for a united front
“Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away her wrath”-Nathaniel H. Egleston.
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#1206002019-04-01
Climate Change, Disaster Reduction And Future Proofing – Is Enough Being Done To Preserve Water?
Research by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require fast, far-reaching and extraordinary changes.
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#1287392021-05-20
Climate Change, Diversity, and Systemic Inequality Topped the ESG Agenda in 2020
The coronavirus pandemic, escalating attacks on people of color, and rising activism against racism and income inequality heightened the focus on ESG issues by corporations, investors and other stakeholders in 2020
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#1346062022-05-19
Climate Change: A Major Cause of Death for Rainforest Trees
According to a new study, tropical trees in rainforest regions of Australia have been dying at double the previous rate from the 1980s. This is apparently due to climate impacts.
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#1247392020-03-18
Climate Change: A National Security Threat Multiplier – Analysis
Environmental risks arising from climate change are now considered to be powerful threat multipliers. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2020 identifies five of the top ten global risks as being of an environmental nature, owing to the confluence of climate change and ecological degra ...
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#1237192020-01-15
Climate Change: A Tale of Weather Extremes with Mixed Fortunes for Zambia
Planeta Hatuleke, a small scale farmer of Pemba District in Southern Zambia, stands in a maize field. This year, she hopes that she will not be one of the country’s 2.3 million food insecure people thanks to the climate smart agriculture techniques she implemented while planting her crop in Nove ...
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#1198892019-02-11
Climate Change: All Coldest years on Earth occurred almost a century ago
The Earth has been warming up to quite an extent for the longest time. In fact, out of the last 19 years, 18 have been the warmest ever recorded, which does sound like a big deal with the present buzz of ice melting around Antarctica and Greenland. - See more at: https://www.skymetweather.com/co ...
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#1320682021-12-06
Climate Change: Buhari begins leadership of the Pan African Great Green Wall
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has taken over the Presidency of the Pan African Great Green Wall (PAGGW) in Africa.
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#1301972021-09-01
Climate Change: Developing Countries Account for Over 90% Deaths Due to Extreme Conditions, Says WMO
More than 91 per cent of these deaths occurred in developing countries (using the United Nations country classification). Of the top 10 disasters, the hazards that led to the largest human losses during the period have been droughts (6,50,000 deaths), storms (5,77,232 deaths), floods (58 700 dea ...
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#1294412021-07-07
Climate Change: Dragonfly Are Losing Their Shine And May Slowly Be Lost Forever
Dragonflies are definitely one of the most beautiful insects out there. As kids, most of us remember imagining them as tiny flying helicopters, with a shiny green lustre that made them stand out. However, now, due to climate change, this lustre is fading away.
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#1198522019-02-08
Climate Change: Earth very similar to 115,000 years ago, except dramatic sea level rise
Somewhere dating back to 115,000 years ago, humans or as we may call them homo sapiens were all the while living in groups of hunters and gatherers, to a great extent restricted to Africa. While these primates didn't have any idea, but the Earth was reaching the end of a noteworthy warm period. ...
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#1343942022-05-12
Climate Change: Even If We Miss the 1.5°C Target, We Must Not Allow More Warming
'We must all become engaged and active to protect our world, by all means possible', experts suggest. Is it game over for our attempts to avert dangerous climate change?
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#1284422021-05-06
Climate Change: Everything You Need to Know
Climate change is actually not a new phenomenon. Scientists have been studying the connection between human activity and the effect on the climate since the 1800s, although it took until the 1950s to find evidence suggesting a link.
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#1263182020-12-17
Climate Change: Expect fewer, but more destructive landfalling tropical cyclones
A study based on new high-resolution supercomputer simulations, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science Advances, reveals that global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of category 3 or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of we ...
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#1262542020-12-15
Climate Change: Global warming is faster than evolution
The world is getting warmer, and life has to adapt to new conditions. But if the warming continues, many species may have trouble keeping up.“It looks like evolution is slower than global warming in this case,” says Fredrik Jutfelt, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science a ...
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#1201742019-03-01
Climate Change: Ice Free Summer likely in the Arctic in 20 years -
The Arctic Ocean could encounter summers free of ice in the following 20 years, which is a lot sooner than recently anticipated, except if greenhouse emissions are significantly reduced. -
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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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#1350422022-06-22
Climate Change: The New Abnormal
Humans have a tendency to believe everything will be pretty much the same in the future as it has been in the past. No surprise since generally speaking that was pretty true in the past and while things changed, they did not change so radically or with such severe consequences as they are now.
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#1352262022-07-05
Climate Change: Wildfire Risk Has Grown Everywhere
As climate change makes hot and dry conditions—often termed “fire weather”—more common and severe, vegetation dries out and landscapes become more flammable, pushing up the odds of dangerous wildfires.
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#1336242022-03-01
Climate Crisis: Health, Cities, Biodiversity—Key Takeaways from IPCC’s Report on Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability
At present, 1.5°C and 2°C are the two figures that seem to determine the planet’s future! These represent warming scenarios, and breaching these thresholds could undermine our ability to build a liveable and sustainable future for all. Unmitigated warming would turn Earth inhabitable for humans ...
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#1334752022-02-24
Climate Damage and the Role of Insurance
As a consequence of climate change, extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves and storms have increased in frequency and severity. As Domingo Sugranyes of the Pablo VI Foundation says, “global losses from natural disasters in 2020 came to $210 billion, of which $82 billion was i ...
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#1299742021-08-16
Climate Repair: These Three Actions Need To Be Taken To Stabilise The Planet, Asap
"Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back to a place of relative safety for humanity?
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#1218872019-08-14
Climate Shocks Could Reverse Gains in Child Malnutrition
Drought fueled by global warming could exacerbate food insecurity, particularly in developing countries
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#1269612021-02-10
Climate action could save 'millions of lives' through clean air, diet and exercise
Thousands of lives lost to air pollution, inactivity and unhealthy diets could be saved each year if the UK takes the action needed to tackle climate change, researchers have said.
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#1309612021-10-19
Climate action needed to avert 'health catastrophe'
To achieve sustained recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid an "impending health catastrophe," countries must commit to targeted action on climate change, health experts have urged ahead of the UN climate summit, COP26.
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#1213052019-06-13
Climate action: Can we change the climate from the grassroots up?
The past couple of years will likely go down in history as the ones when climate change really hit.
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#1316552021-11-15
Climate activists in Kenya fight to protect the slums — and call on the West to do more
Climate change has brought deadly flooding to Kenya’s most impoverished neighbourhoods, and drought elsewhere.It's not how many would want to spend a Saturday morning: digging deep into piles of wet sludge, garbage and human waste clogging the drainage paths that snake through the narrow streets ...
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#1215152019-07-09
Climate activists turn to lawsuits to force action on global warming
Citizens and organizations have filed more than 1,300 cases worldwide since 1990.
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#1232842019-12-05
Climate adaptation could make the world more peaceful
As communities around the globe, especially those in poorer regions, are suffering increasingly from the negative impacts of climate change, the importance of climate adaptation is becoming more apparent.
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#1344482022-05-13
Climate adaptation is a business opportunity — but at what cost?
Fancy getting real-time data on where lightning is striking during a thunderstorm, accurate to under a hundred metres, using a couple of lightweight ground-based sensors?
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#1222062019-09-12
Climate adaptation is expensive. Inaction will cost more, report finds
NEW YORK — Adapting to the reality of climate change makes clear economic sense, but few national governments have been quick to capitalize on the financial benefits of necessary changes.
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#1341902022-04-25
Climate adaptation is going to be a disaster
The recent IPCC report is clear: To the extent that the world cannot avoid climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, humanity must learn to live in a warmer climate, a process often referred to as adaptation.
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#1198962019-02-11
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'
Environmental and social problems could interact in global breakdown, report says. The gathering storm of human-caused threats to climate, nature and economy pose a danger of systemic collapse comparable to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report that calls for urgent and radical re ...
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#1256382020-11-10
Climate and soil carbon
Global soils contain two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere, and higher temperatures speed up decomposition – reducing the amount of time carbon spends in the soil (known as "soil carbon turnover").
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#1321682021-12-14
Climate benefits of forest restoration revealed
Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate through deforestation, but also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. Studies published recently show that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast and identify the best types of trees for aiding in this action.
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#1296532021-07-23
Climate cataclysms set stage for key UN science report
On the heels of jaw-dropping heat and flooding across three continents, nearly 200 nations gather Monday to validate a critical UN climate science report 100 days ahead of a political summit charged with keeping Earth liveable.
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#1200532019-02-21
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
Report says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
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#1219722019-08-21
Climate change 'could expose more ancient monuments and ruins'
More ancient monuments and historic ruins will be uncovered as extreme weather caused by climate change gets more frequent, an expert has said.
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#1221742019-09-11
Climate change 'could make planet uninhabitable for birds'
If global temperatures keep rising, some species of birds may struggle to recolonise and end up dying out.Climate change could have a lasting impact on bird populations, with some dying out and others forced to recolonise, scientists have warned.
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#1219182019-08-16
Climate change 'disrupts' local plant diversity, study reveals
Faster rates of climate change could be increasing the diversity of plant species in many places, according to research from the University of York.
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#1298722021-08-10
Climate change 'double whammy' could kill off fish species
Many commonly-eaten fish could face extinction as warming oceans due to climate change increases pressure on their survival while also hampering their ability to adapt.