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#1321622021-12-14
Forests: an unrecognized force for adaptation to climate change
Trees are known climate change mitigators, but scientists now push their power to adapt.
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#1321632021-12-14
Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change
Scientists are warning of dramatic changes at one of the biggest glaciers in Antarctica, potentially within the next five to 10 years.
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#1321642021-12-14
Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 38C (100F), has been officially confirmed, sounding "alarm bells" over Earth's changing climate.
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#1321662021-12-14
Nature protection must be a key part of our climate crisis response, says Fauna & Flora International
More than any other before it, COP26 was the ‘Nature COP’; the moment that the central place of nature protection within the climate debate was almost universally recognised.
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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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#1321712021-12-14
Conservation documents for half of all critically endangered species don’t mention climate change
Australian Conservation Foundation report found that climate change was not mentioned for 178 out of 334 critically endangered species and habitats.
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#1321732021-12-14
Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace
The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’.
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#1321532021-12-13
2021: highlights from the BirdLife Europe and Central Asia year
It has been a deeply challenging year. The pandemic has continued to cause enormous suffering while floods and fires across our continent this summer showed that climate crisis is biting hard
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#1321552021-12-13
We’ve Failed Our Planet. This Is an SOS.
We are already living in a world that is being transformed by climate change. Every single country on Earth is feeling its effects — today.
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#1321562021-12-13
5 reasons why COP26 should finally mark a turning point for forests, food and climate
No longer the ‘forgotten solution’, nature appeared prominently in the final text of the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement reached at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
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#1321282021-12-10
Oceans could be harnessed to remove carbon from air, say US science leaders
The United States should undertake a major research program into how the oceans could be artificially harnessed to remove carbon dioxide from the air, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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#1321302021-12-10
UN chief: Climate change aggravates conflict and terrorism
Climate change is "an aggravating factor" for instability, conflict and terrorism, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday.
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#1321312021-12-10
COP26 Cop-out?
Did the 26th UN Conference of the Parties on climate change in Glasgow produce any useful results, other than boosting airline and travel industry profits?
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#1321332021-12-10
New report investigates geoengineering oceans to fight climate change
A report released on Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine looks towards the planet’s oceans to combat climate change. The nearly 300-page document presents a variety of potential solutions ranging from seaweed farming to administering electric shocks to redu ...
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#1321342021-12-10
How The Agriculture Industry Can Work To Reverse Climate Change
The indoor farming industry has seen a huge influx of investment over the past year, and accordingly has become a popular solution for growers.
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#1321352021-12-10
Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change
When a plane crashes, its flight recorder is critical to piecing together the missteps that led to calamity. Now the planet is getting its own in case it self-destructs.
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#1321422021-12-10
Help us support those on the frontline of the climate emergency
As poorer nations pay the price for wealthy countries’ pollution, fighting climate injustice is a moral obligation.
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#1321052021-12-09
Long-term forecasts help farmers in India
Climate change is severely impacting India's farmers by making monsoons more irregular. One farmer in Madhya Pradesh found help in a forecast model devised in Germany that predicts the rains with surprising accuracy.
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#1320872021-12-08
Coral reefs off east Africa could die out in 50 years - study
Coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean are at risk of extinction by 2070 due to warming temperatures and overfishing, according to a new study.
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#1320882021-12-08
Top Emirati environmentalist urges action over global biodiversity collapse
Razan Al-Mubarak wants to ‘debunk myth’ that fighting climate change automatically preserves biodiversity
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#1320952021-12-08
Amazonian Birds Are Shrinking in Response to Climate Change
A new study has found that birds in an undisturbed region of the Amazon are evolving smaller bodies and longer wings in response to the changing climate.
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#1320762021-12-07
Coral reefs of western Indian Ocean at risk of collapse: study
Rising sea temperatures and overfishing threaten coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean with complete collapse in the next 50 years, according to a groundbreaking study of these marine ecosystems.
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#1320792021-12-07
Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund commits another $443 million to climate justice and conservation
On Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced his Earth Fund’s latest round of grants: $443 million to be spent primarily on land conservation and restoration and efforts to reduce environmental burdens on marginalized communities.
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#1320862021-12-07
Celebrating all that soils do for us - Dr Kenneth Loades
COP26 highlighted more than ever that we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and become more sustainable before it’s too late. Soil is a key component in this battle and something that we expect to provide food, feed and fibre, store and supply water, store carbon and archive geological and ...
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#1320572021-12-06
World’s underground fungal life to be mapped for first time
Scientists unveiled plans last Tuesday to map the world’s huge underground webs of fungi for the first time, to identify hotspots that could better protect natural ecosystems and store carbon dioxide to help tackle climate change.
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#1320652021-12-06
To save the planet, protect its stewards
Indigenous people took center stage on the climate summit, but how can they and the forests be real winners, if nations still are reluctant to accept the fundamental rights for them?
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#1320662021-12-06
How Fashion Can Deliver on COP26 Ambitions
Amid mounting evidence of fashion’s dramatically negative climate impact, countries, communities and companies are mobilising around protecting the planet. However, a new era of climate action will be required if fashion is to meet ambitious targets to reverse the damage being done.
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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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#1320302021-12-03
COP-26 Results: High Hopes for Low Temperatures
At the opening ceremony of COP-26, Chairman Alok Sharma stated that the decisions made in Glasgow should be more vigorous than those of Paris. In Scotland’s largest city, the parties to the UNFCCC, after several unsuccessful attempts made in previous years, were again trying to hammer out the ru ...
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#1320392021-12-03
For Companies Eyeing Net-zero Carbon Emissions, ‘No Clue How To Get There’
Voluntary carbon markets have become the go-to for companies trying to achieve net-zero carbon, but curbing emissions is still most important, executives said at a recent sustainability conference in Singapore.
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#1320432021-12-03
Why increased rainfall in the Arctic is bad news for the whole world
While a reduction in frozen ocean surface is one of the most widely recognised impacts of Arctic warming, it has also long been anticipated that a warmer Arctic will be a wetter one too, with more intense cycling of water between land, atmosphere and ocean.
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#1320142021-12-02
Working with instead of against nature is the only way out of the climate and biodiversity crisis
If we thought we could build our way out of the climate and biodiversity crisis with more advanced human technology, the COVID-19 pandemic taught us that we are far more vulnerable to the powers of nature than we previously dared to admit, and that working with instead of against nature is the o ...
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#1320172021-12-02
COP26: UK 'nowhere near' meeting targets agreed at Glasgow climate summit
The UK is "nowhere near" meeting emissions targets enshrined at the Glasgow climate summit, official advisers have warned.
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#1320272021-12-02
Study: Climate change not causing Madagascar drought, famine
Don’t blame climate change for the devastating Madagascar drought and famine, scientists said in a new analysis Wednesday.
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#1319842021-11-29
Climate tipping points: The Arctic is a bellwether for irreversible change
The warship HMS Terror lies at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in the Northwest passage, lost in 1848 after two grueling years stuck in the Arctic ice. Rescue missions launched to recover the ship in 1851 suffered the same fate, crushed under the year-round ice that encased Northern Canada and th ...
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#1319432021-11-25
The Arctic Ocean began warming decades earlier than previously thought, new research shows
The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research.
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#1319232021-11-24
Alpine Space: Call for projects on decarbonisation, circular economy and biodiversity
The European Commission and Switzerland are issuing a call for projects for the 2021-2027 Alpine Space programme. The call will run until 28 February 2022. The aim of the programme is to enable Alpine regions to become climate neutral, enhance their competitiveness and to equip themselves to add ...
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#1319182021-11-24
Fighting climate change is a dirty job, but soils can do it | Problem Solved
The Earth’s soil stores nearly three times as much carbon as all plants, animals and the atmosphere combined, researchers say. However, unchecked deforestation, modern industrialized agriculture, the failure to recognize Indigenous land rights, and the continued extraction and burning of fossil ...
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#1319132021-11-24
Managing Climate Risks through Nature-Based Solutions
In line with recent biodiversity and climate science, the new scoping paper explains how the integration of biodiversity into resilience-building actions can strengthen ecosystems and the services they provide. These services include acting as buffers against extreme weather, protecting soils, r ...
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#1318812021-11-24
The Win-Wins of Climate and Biodiversity Solutions
Nature is already our best defense against runaway increases of greenhouse gas emissions. Earth’s lands and waters currently absorb about 40% of the carbon dioxide human activity and natural processes release into the atmosphere. That can’t continue, though, without our oceans acidifying and pla ...
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#1318232021-11-19
Severe weather, climate change are leading to ecological grief, anxiety
All over the world, including here in Canada, the impacts of severe weather, fueled by climate change, are becoming impossible to ignore.
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#1318242021-11-19
Big banks want to act on climate change — so what's stopping them?
As the dust settles from the recent UN climate summit in Glasgow, there's still plenty of debate about what was actually accomplished at COP26 and how various nations will reach the lofty environmental targets they've pledged.
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#1318262021-11-19
Climate change denial 2.0 was on full display at COP26, but there was also pushback
The COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, saw incremental progress on addressing climate change. But even if countries meet their current commitments to reduce emissions, the planet is on course to heat up 2.4 C by the end of the century. This warming will submerge low-lying islands and coastal reg ...
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#1318302021-11-19
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has it been neglected in global climate talks?
Climate change is commonly discussed as though it's a uniquely atmospheric phenomena. But the crisis is deeply entwined with the ocean, and this has largely been neglected in international climate talks.
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#1318322021-11-19
After COP26, regional collaboration will continue to drive bold climate change action
Long before COP26 drew to a frantically delayed close last weekend, the recriminations and finger-pointing were already in full flow. The final deal is in many respects a disappointing compromise; or as UN Secretary-General António Guterres put it, a document that reflects “the interests, contra ...
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#1318332021-11-19
African nations settled for ‘moral pact’ with US on adaptation finance at Cop26
African nations accepted a “moral commitment” that the US will deliver increased finance for developing countries to cope with intensifying climate impacts in exchange for backing the Cop26 deal in Glasgow.
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#1318342021-11-19
British Columbia at the epicentre of climate change-fuelled weather extremes
From dangerous heat and destructive wildfires to record breaking rainfall and catastrophic flooding, parts of British Columbia, Canada have been at the epicentre of two top-end weather extremes within the space of a few months.
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#1318352021-11-19
Think small to fight climate change
When applied to droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or other extreme weather events, the term "unprecedented" is getting old. In August, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report about the dire realities we face, a drought exacerbated by global warming al ...
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#1318422021-11-19
Scorpion plagues, sharks on the move: has Cop26 done enough for nature?
If the natural world was trying to have its say on the Glasgow climate pact, the arrival of a plague of scorpions in Egypt as Cop26 came to an end was not a subtle message.
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#1318442021-11-19
Revealed: the places humanity must not destroy to avoid climate chaos
Detailed new mapping has pinpointed the carbon-rich forests and peatlands that humanity cannot afford to destroy if climate catastrophe is to be avoided.