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#1318512021-11-19
COP26 failed to address ocean acidification, but the law of the seas means states must protect the world's oceans
The COP26 summit may come to be regarded as a failure or an important milestone, but it certainly failed to address the "other" climate change problem: ocean acidification.
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#1318632021-11-19
Can genetically engineered seeds prevent a climate-driven food crisis?
When John Boelts sows acres of cotton seed on his farm in Yuma, Arizona, he does so knowing that the fields will be free of an invasive pest called pink bollworm. For nearly a century, the small pink striped caterpillars terrorized cotton fields in the U.S.
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#1317772021-11-18
Mia Mottley: the ‘fearless’ leader pushing a global settlement for the climate frontlines
The prime minister of one of the smallest and most climate vulnerable countries on Earth is on a mission to make the international financial system deliver for those on the frontline of the climate crisis.
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#1317782021-11-18
Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope
The world as we knew it is coming to an end, and it’s up to us how it ends and what comes after. It’s the end of the age of fossil fuel, but if the fossil-fuel corporations have their way the ending will be delayed as long as possible, with as much carbon burned as possible.
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#1317792021-11-18
Soot: What Is It? And How Does It Contribute to Climate Change
Soot, one of the worst contributors in a battle that the world has been grappling with in decades--climate change. Its impact, despite its mundane, is similar to methane emissions and is only second to carbon dioxide when it comes to its destructive potential.
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#1317802021-11-18
Climate change: how elephants help pump planet-warming carbon underground
Imagine you’re in a hot air balloon flying over an African savanna in the late growing season. Below, herds of elephants, zebras, wildebeests and rhinos roam a mosaic landscape dotted with lonesome trees and daubs of woodland on a canvas of yellow-brown grass. The hungry and rowdy herbivores are ...
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#1317812021-11-18
Healthcare systems pledge action against climate change
It’s an industry tasked with maintaining wellness, but it turns out the healthcare sector, worldwide, is a major contributor to climate change -- and thus to the negative health effects caused by rising temperatures and extreme weather.
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#1317862021-11-18
'I've seen irreversible change but hope too for planet'
His face was flushed and his voice was loud. You're making it all up about global warming, a man shouted as he approached me. We were in the Royal Society, the UK's leading scientific academy, and a panel discussion about climate change had just finished. It's nothing to do with carbon dioxide, ...
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#1318132021-11-18
Newsletter: Can Major League Baseball step up to the plate on climate change?
I’ll never forget the moment when it finally hit me how serious the pandemic was going to be. I was standing outside a dairy farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley, learning about methane emissions from cow poop, when I saw the news on my phone: Major League Baseball was canceling the remainder ...
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#1318142021-11-18
Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate
The floods across Europe, China and the US in recent months have again brought to the fore the ability of extreme rainfall to take lives, destroy homes and displace communities.
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#1318182021-11-18
Climate change denial is getting more sophisticated and experts say COP26 progress could be at risk
To limit global warming to 1.5C we need urgent action but the spread of online climate misinformation could be holding the world back.
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#1317522021-11-17
COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial
As world leaders met at the COP26 summit to debate how to tackle climate change, misleading claims and falsehoods about the climate spiralled on social media.
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#1317672021-11-17
How the spin-off benefits of climate action will improve life for everyone
COP26 has drawn to a close, with mixed results. Some progress has been made since Paris 2015, but the latest projections confirm that we are nowhere near where we should be. As things stand, we are heading for 2.4℃ of warming with disastrous environmental and human consequences that will affect ...
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#1317082021-11-16
Global heating is destroying rock art tens of thousands of years old, experts warn
Rock art that has lasted tens of thousands of years is being destroyed by the climate emergency in a matter of years. Coastal erosion, fires, floods and cyclones are among the extreme events predicted to get more severe with global heating. Archaeologists and historians are now warning that seri ...
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#1317122021-11-16
Stop talking, start acting, says Africa’s first extreme heat official
When she was growing up, Eugenia Kargbo could have a leisurely stroll, jog or cycle around the streets of Freetown. But that easy life no longer exists in Sierra Leone’s capital for her two children. The city is so swelteringly hot that children run the constant risk of sunburn or heat rashes if ...
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#1317132021-11-16
Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia’s sinking city
Yedel Bah would move home if she could, but she can’t. With no income of her own, four children to feed and a husband who just about manages, her family lives from day to day, and from flood to flood, on the banks of a litter-strewn, stagnant canal.
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#1317252021-11-16
Global warming speeds up the frequency of extreme hot weather and rainfall
The frequency of extreme hot weather and record temperatures and rainfall has increased around the world as a result of global warming, according to an international research project headed up by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and involving the participation of the Geoscience Institute ...
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#1317322021-11-16
Climate changed abruptly at tipping points in past
Abrupt changes in ice core samples and other records indicate dramatic changes in climate occurred at certain points in the past. In Chaos, climate scientists identify abrupt transitions in climate records that may have been caused by the climate system crossing a tipping point.
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#1317372021-11-16
The world has made more progress on climate change than you might think, or might have predicted a decade ago
It must be painful for Boris Johnson to be a footnote, especially a footnote in French, but at the end of a very long two weeks, there were always only two outcomes possible at the UN climate summit in Glasgow. A Copenhagen-style meltdown, putting the implementation of the Paris Agreement on hol ...
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#1317382021-11-16
Climate change might mean several of Indonesia's small islands have no future
As the world's largest archipelagic country, Indonesia should be showing more concern about the impact of climate change on small islands.
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#1317432021-11-16
Record rainfall prompts evacuations along the Pacific north-west
Communities in western Canada who were forced to flee their homes this summer by wildfires and extreme heat are once again under evacuation orders after overwhelming floods across the region.
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#1317452021-11-16
Coastal defences need $30bn boost to prevent Australian homes becoming uninhabitable
Australia will have to spend $30bn over the next half century to bolster coastal defences against the threat of rising sea levels and other global heating impacts to cope with more exposed properties becoming uninhabitable, the Insurance Council of Australia has said.
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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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#1316562021-11-15
Madagascar's habitat at risk due to climate change
Environmentalists looking after one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests in Madagascar are increasingly worried about climate change putting endemic wildlife at risk.
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#1316572021-11-15
Amazon birds change their body shape due to climate change
A new study showed that even the wildest parts of the Amazon rainforest untouched by humanity are being impacted by climate change.
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#1316582021-11-15
Climate change threatening Canada’s permafrost
There’s another piece to the climate change puzzle that Canadians must confront. Few countries in the world have permafrost, but Canada has four million square kilometres of it. And that big melt is releasing carbon that has been locked away for centuries. Not only that – life is being disrupted ...
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#1316602021-11-15
North African climate change threatens farming, political stability
"I can't do anything with my land because of the lack of water," he said. Fileli is just one of many farmers who have been left high and dry by increasingly long and intense droughts across North Africa.
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#1316612021-11-15
Climate change is the most important threat to our health
On Friday, COP26 came to a close in Glasgow. Though assessment of its success or failure remains a point of contentious discussion, we are delighted that Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault signed onto the World Health Organization (WHO)’s COP26 Health Programme ...
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#1316742021-11-15
‘It’s like hunting aliens’: inside the town besieged by armadillos
Thanks to climate change, armadillos, native to southern America, are making their way up north. And there’s no sign of them stopping their relentless march
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#1316852021-11-15
Friction: from fingerprints to climate change
What links geckos’ feet, plate tectonics, the winter sport curling and spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere? For physicist and science writer Laurie Winkless, the answer is: friction. Her eclectic, sometimes erratic, book Sticky touches on all these and much more as she investigates a force who ...
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#6100Twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26)
31 October - 12 November 2021, Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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#1312832021-10-29
PCPs face mounting responsibility to address health effects of climate change
Human influence has had an unequivocal impact on earth’s climate, causing significant changes that threaten people’s security and physical and mental health, according to a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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#1312842021-10-29
Financing adaptation
As climate change impacts are felt more and more around the world, adapting to change is becoming critical. However, it is not clear whether actions being taken are effective in reducing risk and increasing resilience, and access to financing is crucial.
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#1312902021-10-29
'We need to act immediately' on climate change, IOM chief warns world leaders
In an interview with FRANCE 24 from Geneva, the director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) urged world leaders to "act now" to tackle the challenges of climate change during the upcoming COP26 summit in Glasgow.
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#1312912021-10-29
Climate change: how economists underestimated benefits of action for decades
The costs of doing nothing vastly outweigh the costs of decarbonising a global economy which, since the Industrial Revolution, has been powered by fossil fuels. That may seem self-evident today, when catastrophic fires and floods offer daily reminders of how expensive continued inaction on clima ...
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#1312922021-10-29
Climate Change Is Affecting Polar Bear Diet
Climate change is disproportionately affecting the polar regions. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) revealed that in the last just the last 50 years, the Arctic warmed up by nearly three times quicker than the rest of t ...
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#1312932021-10-29
Global warning: pharma’s role in the climate crisis
Despite the distrust with which the pharma industry tends to be viewed by the general public, it remains an industry that revolves around an overriding social mission.
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#1312942021-10-29
How You View Climate Change Might Depend On Where You Live
President Biden and his entourage will be headed to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this weekend to demonstrate where the country stands on addressing climate change.
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#1312962021-10-29
Climate change in least developed countries: How blended finance could help meet mitigation needs
After this summer, the list of destructive impacts stemming from climate change is at once more familiar, remarkable and terrifying: Sea-level rise, ocean acidification and desertification led to increasingly devastating extreme weather events such as fires, cyclones, hurricanes, floods and drou ...
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#1312992021-10-29
‘Not trying to mislead’: airlines chief defends industry’s net zero pledge
For the airline industry it was as “momentous decision”; for environment campaigners it was “essentially meaningless”. Earlier this month, the global airline trade body Iata passed a resolution, approved by almost 300 of the world’s biggest carriers, to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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#1313212021-10-29
Climate change: We're acting, but are we making a difference?
It's a big question: Is the world doing enough to adapt to the effects of climate change? According to University of Delaware disaster researcher A.R. Siders, there are no easy answers, but scientists are looking at this problem from a variety of angles.
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#1313272021-10-29
How investing in Natural Climate Solutions can make companies more resilient
The world heads into the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow facing some sobering facts. The August IPCC report warns of dire consequences for our way of life, and our planet, if we are unable to keep warming at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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#1312322021-10-28
Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer
The emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle native to Southeast Asia, threatens the entire ash tree population in North America and has already changed forested landscapes and caused tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue to the ash sawtimber industry since it arrived in the United States in ...
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#1312332021-10-28
78% of People Globally Fear Damage to Earth Amid Worsening Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Survey
Roughly 78% of people worldwide are concerned about human-caused damage to our planet with the climate and biodiversity crisis, according to the most comprehensive global values survey to date tracking attitudes about climate change and the environment.
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#1312352021-10-28
Drying land and heating seas: why nature in Australia’s southwest is on the climate frontline
In a few days world leaders will descend on Glasgow for the United Nations climate change talks. Much depends on it. We know climate change is already happening, and nowhere is the damage more stark than in Australia’s southwest.
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#1312432021-10-28
Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding, and climate change is making them stronger
Ask people to name the world's largest river, and most will probably guess that it's the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth's largest rivers are in the sky—and they can produce powerful storms, like the ones now drenching northern California.
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#1312442021-10-28
Five climate change myths
As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from October 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.
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#1312472021-10-28
'Never seen anything like it': astronaut on 2021 climate disasters
From his perch 400 kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has had a unique perspective on the climate-fuelled natural disasters that have swept the planet over the past six months.
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#1312492021-10-28
World faces growing threat of 'unbearable' heatwaves
From Death Valley to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent to sub-Saharan Africa, global warming has already made daily life unbearable for millions of people.
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#1312572021-10-28
World is failing to make changes needed to avoid climate breakdown, report finds
Every corner of society is failing to take the “transformational change” needed to avert the most disastrous consequences of the climate crisis, with trends either too slow or in some cases even regressing, according to a major new global analysis.