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#1311762021-10-26
Historic warships to be raided for missing climate data
Logbooks kept by sailors on board the UK warship HMS Warrior in the 1860s could soon help reveal a more complete picture of how Earth's climate has changed since pre-industrial times.
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#1311792021-10-26
How climate change contributes to global violence
Alvarez studies collective and interpersonal violence. From 2001 until 2003 he was the founding director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values. His latest book, "Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide," looks at the human ...
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#1311832021-10-26
World has wasted chance to build back better after Covid, UN says
The world has squandered the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, and faces disastrous temperature rises of at least 2.7C if countries fail to strengthen their climate pledges, according to a report from the UN.
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#1311842021-10-26
Asia had hottest year on record in 2020 – UN
Asia suffered its hottest year on record in 2020, the United Nations has said ahead of the CoP26 summit, with extreme weather taking a heavy toll on the continent’s development.
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#1311852021-10-26
Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather
A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say.
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#1311172021-10-25
Climate change now worse than war for Afghan farmers
As the world watched the Taliban wage a stunning offensive that ended in the rapid collapse of the country's western-backed government, a longer-term crisis was building.
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#1311182021-10-25
Kenya's Masai Mara under threat from climate change
Wildlife in Tanzania and Kenya is under threat due to climate change, according to a local conservationist group that observes the migration of wild animals.
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#1311192021-10-25
Climate change has already hit southern Africa. Here’s how we know
Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that's partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance.
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#1311202021-10-25
I Played This Climate Change Game—and Lost Everything
This is not a game. Regarding climate change, that much is abundantly clear. Even at a few tenths of a degree shy of the aspirational ceiling of 1.5 degrees C (about 2.7 degrees F) of warming above pre-industrial levels, the often-overwhelming impacts of extreme weather driven by the changing cl ...
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#1311212021-10-25
Climate change: Global-warming greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit record high
Levels of planet-heating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record highs again last year, UN scientists have warned just a week before global climate negotiations begin.
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#1311222021-10-25
Explainer-Climate change: what are the economic stakes?
COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be the world’s best last chance to cap global warming at the 1.5-2 degrees Celsius upper limit set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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#1311232021-10-25
Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks
Zimbabwe is ranked in the top 20 countries in the world most affected by extreme weather between 2000 and 2019. Some regions in Zimbabwe experienced between three to six bad rainfall seasons between 2014 to 2019 alone. In a country where agriculture is so important, these impacts are acutely felt.
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#1311252021-10-25
Climate crisis: greenhouse gas levels hit new record despite lockdowns, UN reports
Levels of climate-heating gases in the atmosphere hit record levels in 2020, despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has announced.
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#1311262021-10-25
Climate finance for poor countries to hit $100bn target by 2023, says report
The longstanding target for providing climate finance to the developing world will be met within two years, according to a report ahead of the UN Cop26 climate summit.
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#1311382021-10-25
Dutch agency: Netherlands could face higher sea level rises
Dutch climate experts warned Monday that the low-lying Netherlands could face higher sea level rises than previously forecast as well as the threat of extreme rainfall and other dangerous weather events caused by climate change.
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#1311412021-10-25
Four ways rich nations can keep promises to curb emissions and fund climate adaptation
The time has come for Canada and other rich nations to pony-up and pay for the devastation they have caused countries in the Global South. That means, for a start, providing far greater climate adaptation financing to low-income countries and plugging the holes that siphon their limited fiscal r ...
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#1310622021-10-22
Climate & Biodiversity: Various Business Strategies
Last week, part one of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, ended in Kunming. It set the stage for an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework when it reconvenes in 2022.
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#1310802021-10-22
The heat is on: from the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate chaos
Sweating, headaches, fatigue, dehydration – the ways heat exhaustion affects the human body are well documented. As temperatures inch up year by year we need to change the way we live, creating cooler places that provide refuge from heat.
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#1310852021-10-22
‘Worst thing in lifetime’: South Sudan floods affecting 700,000
He feels like a man who has drowned. The worst flooding that parts of South Sudan have seen in 60 years now surrounds his home of mud and grass. His field of sorghum, which fed his family, is under water. Surrounding mud dykes have collapsed.
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#1310862021-10-22
New Zealand Scientists Investigate Microplastics' Impact on Climate Change
New Zealand scientists have found that microplastics have a direct impact on global warming. They published the first study linking airborne plastic fragments and fibers to climate change Wednesday. They also found that microplastics, which have been widely detected on land and in rivers and oce ...
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#1310872021-10-22
Fighting climate change with autonomous flood monitoring
Over two billion people globally lack access to clean water, with the lives of children under the age of five most threatened. Today almost one and a half billion of the world’s population faces a flood risk. Both of these life-threatening issues are exacerbated by climate change.
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#1310882021-10-22
Navigating the emotional rollercoaster of climate change
Imagine a semi-truck is barreling towards us. We can see it coming, so I try to move us away from its collision course. Your response wouldn’t be, "Wow, Lauren, you’re really passionate about 16 wheelers! Have you always been such a gearhead? I’m so happy you have this passion." Certainly not. Y ...
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#1310892021-10-22
Microorganisms are sensitive to large-scale climate change in Antarctica
For a long time, scientists assumed that microorganisms, due to their broad distribution patterns, were much less affected by such climatic changes than plants and animals that often present very limited distribution areas. By examining fossils of Antarctic microorganisms, an international team ...
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#1311012021-10-22
Climate change: Nature readers say their fears are growing
As the governments of almost 200 nations prepare for a pivotal meeting on climate change, scientists have expressed their fears over global warming and lacklustre efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
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#1311022021-10-22
Madagascar - Severe Drought Could Spur World's First Climate Change Famine
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The region has been hit hard by successive years of severe drought, forcing families in rural ...
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#1311032021-10-22
The fate of the planet will be negotiated in Glasgow, Scotland
Almost every country in the world signed the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a monumental accord that aimed to limit global warming. But it was forged on a contradiction: Every signatory agreed that everyone must do something to address the urgent threat of climate change, but no one at the time p ...
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#1311042021-10-22
Climate change: 'More homegrown timber needed' to cut emissions
Building the homes of the future will require Wales to become a "forest nation", according to industry experts. They said much more homegrown timber is needed to cut carbon emissions from construction, and would also lead to greener homes and jobs in rural areas.
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#1310302021-10-21
Niger: This Is How Niger Is Battling Climate Change
In Niger and in the Sahel countries, the threat of climate change is a daily reality for its inhabitants. Temperatures are rising 1.5 times faster than in the rest of the world. Droughts, regular floods and soil degradation cause agricultural losses and worsen food security.
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#1310312021-10-21
Climate change: Could Welsh farms help meet targets?
Agriculture is in a unique position to help meet climate targets, a Welsh farming union leader has said. John Davies, of NFU Cymru, said while agriculture was a source of greenhouse gases, it had a role to play by absorbing carbon and other gases.
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#1310322021-10-21
Microbes that form clouds and recycle nutrients threatened by climate change
Microbes in the air could be among the victims of climate change, with 15% of airborne species of bacteria predicted to go extinct. The consequences of their loss are currently uncertain, but could cause impacts on crops, diseases, and even the formation of clouds.
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#1310342021-10-21
S'pore at risk of heatwaves, more dengue outbreaks as climate change worsens health woes: Report
Health problems caused by climate change, such as heat stress and mosquito-borne diseases, will continue to worsen unless countries do more to slash planet-warming emissions, a global group of researchers has warned.
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#1310352021-10-21
Water shortages are a major risk of climate change. Alberta may already be seeing warning signs
At a quiet, isolated section of the Oldman River in southwestern Alberta, it's a calm day. In this corner of the province, extremely strong winds can sometimes spoil outings to the river — but today, it's tranquil.
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#1310362021-10-21
Oil and coal-rich countries lobbying to weaken UN climate report, leak shows
Countries that produce coal, oil, beef and animal feed have been lobbying to water down a landmark UN climate report, according to a leak of documents seen by Greenpeace’s investigation team.
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#1310522021-10-21
How climate change will affect Māori, and how to adapt
A new report from Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research provides guidance for Te Ao Māori on climate change adaptation and mitigation. He huringa āhuarangi, he huringa ao: a changing climate, a changing world was produced by a multidisciplinary Māori research team w ...
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#1309822021-10-20
Let's show our children we can do more than talk on climate change
When 10,000 young people from around the world responded to a recent survey about climate, nearly half said climate anxiety negatively affects their daily functioning. As the father of both a teen and a pre-teen, I find this distressing—but not surprising.
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#1309322021-10-19
This is what your house looks like on climate change: AI-fuelled site predicts the future
What would your neighbourhood look like underwater if a flash flood hit, like the one in Brooklyn in 2013? What if a fire ripped through your community like one did in Lytton, B.C. this summer?
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#1309332021-10-19
Over 100M people threatened by climate change in Africa: UN
AU.N. report published Tuesday showed that over 100 million extremely poor people in Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change that could also melt away the continent's few glaciers within two decades.
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#1309342021-10-19
Children deserve answers to their questions about climate change: How universities can help
Our children are growing up in a volatile climate. It's already damaging their health, wealth and well-being. Universities can be leaders in helping young people gain the knowledge they need to navigate this uncertain future. Curious Climate Schools, a project that connects young people directly ...
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#1309362021-10-19
Climate Change Drives Escalating Drought
For more than 20 years the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been monitoring dozens of indices of drought around the country, including satellite measurements of evaporation and color in vegetation, soil-moisture sensors, rainfall estimates, and river and streamflow levels.
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#1309372021-10-19
UN: Africa's glaciers to disappear by 2040s from climate change
Glaciers capping three of Africa's iconic mountains — Mount Kenya in Kenya, the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania — will likely disappear over the next two decades because of human-induced climate change, the World Meteorological Organization's estimated in a new rep ...
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#1309382021-10-19
Did humans cause climate change? Almost the entire scientific community thinks so
More than 99.9 per cent of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is mainly caused by human activities, according to a review of over 88,000 studies.
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#1309392021-10-19
In an age of self-interest, Boris Johnson's secret COP26 weapon may have to be shame
It's now less than two weeks until Boris Johnson welcomes the world to Glasgow, Scotland, where he will host the COP26 international climate talks at a crucial moment in our planet's history.
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#1309402021-10-19
COP26: Does a climate summit need 25,000 people? And more questions
It's two weeks until the start of the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming. But what's it all about? BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath answers some of your questions.
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#1309412021-10-19
In conversation with Jane Goodall on climate change — and remaining hopeful for the future
A half century ago, Jane Goodall was spending months at a time sitting in the Gombe forest in what is now Tanzania waiting for wild chimps to approach her so that she could observe their behavior. Her superhuman patience paid off. The young researcher discovered that chimps are more like us than ...
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#1309422021-10-19
NASA is preparing for the wrath of climate change
When hurricane Ida made landfall in August, it buffeted NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans with rain and strong winds and shut down power in the area, forcing the site to run on generators. No one was injured, and no parts of the Space Launch System rockets, which are manufactured t ...
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#1309432021-10-19
Maldives calls for rapid and immediate action to fight climate change
The world’s largest carbon emitters are not listening to what’s happening to countries facing extreme weather changes, said the minister of environment of Maldives, an island nation at risk of disappearing by the end of the century.
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#1309442021-10-19
In the face of chaos, why are we so nonchalant about climate change?
The dire state of the planet’s health was unambiguously demonstrated by the UN’s climate body, the IPCC, when it sounded a “code red” for humanity in its latest report.
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#1309452021-10-19
Six Canadian university students on how they're fighting climate change
University students in Canada are paying more attention to climate change than ever before. It’s their future that’s in limbo, they say, and they want companies and governments—and their own schools—to start listening.
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#1309522021-10-19
How climate change affects animal behavior
Humans are shaping environments at an accelerating rate. Indeed, one of the most important current topics of research is the capacity of animals to adapt to human-induced environmental change and how that change affects the expression of animal traits.
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#1309572021-10-19
How quickly does the climate recover?
Climate change is causing temperatures to rise and is also increasing the likelihood of storms, heavy rain, and flooding—the recent flood disaster in the Ahr valley in Germany is just one such example. What we need to ask ourselves in this connection is how quickly the climate can recover from t ...