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#1312702021-10-28
Climate change bringing more severe storms to North Pacific, says shipping chamber head
Ships are facing harsher weather as storms in the North Pacific grow more severe as a result of climate change, says the head of a marine transportation industry association.
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#1312722021-10-28
Trying to slow climate change by pulling CO2 out of the air
A large facility in Iceland is trying to slow the effects of climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, but critics say the expensive technology doesn’t remove enough emissions from the air to make a difference.
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#1312732021-10-28
Climate crisis: What’s at stake for Africa?
Africa has played a minor role in causing climate change, but bears the burden of its consequences. For the continent, the UN climate conference is about vital funding and securing the livelihoods of 1.4 billion people.
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#1312772021-10-28
Nico Rosberg says motorsport can help tackle climate change
Retired Formula One champion Nico Rosberg says motorsport has a positive role to play as the world seeks to combat climate change.
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#1312782021-10-28
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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#1312032021-10-27
If all 2030 climate targets are met, the planet will heat by 2.7 C this century
If nations make good on their latest promises to reduce emissions by 2030, the planet will warm by at least 2.7℃ this century, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. This overshoots the crucial internationally agreed temperature rise of 1.5℃.
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#1312042021-10-27
Want to visualize the realities of a warmer planet? Give this online tool a try
The Clark Fork River drains much of western Montana, bringing water from the Crown of the Continent to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. My daily commute via bicycle crosses the Clark Fork most days and has allowed me to discern a rhythm and tempo in how the seasons come and go—a composi ...
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#1312062021-10-27
The ripple factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the world
Weather extremes can cause economic ripples along supply chains. If they occur at roughly the same time, the ripples start interacting and can amplify, even if they occur at completely different places around the world, a new study shows. The resulting economic losses are greater than the sum of ...
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#1312072021-10-27
Updated climate commitments fall far short, but net-zero pledges provide hope
Analysis of countries' plans to fight climate change show they are not enough to avoid the worst impacts unless further promises are kept.
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#1312082021-10-27
Curbing climate chaos: Why nature is the unsung hero in our quest for net zero
The forests, grasslands and coastal and marine ecosystems that Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and partners are working to safeguard are not just biodiversity havens. They also play a vital role in the global carbon cycle by removing it from the atmosphere and storing it for decades, centuries ...
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#1312092021-10-27
A quick guide to climate change jargon: What experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms
As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you'll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. The language can feel overwhelming.
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#1312142021-10-27
UN biodiversity chief urges COP26 climate talks to prioritize nature
'Climate change is becoming an increasingly serious driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystems degradation – and that loss threatens to worsen climate change," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema says
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#1312202021-10-27
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living there. As that figure continues to climb and ever more people flock to metropolitan areas in the hope of a better life, the big question is: how do we fit everyone in?
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#1312232021-10-27
Climate change to force crop switch for small farmers: experts
In a report issued ahead of the UN climate conference opening in Glasgow on Sunday, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sounded the alarm after commissioning a study on agriculture in southern and eastern Africa.
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#1311522021-10-26
Cats, charisma and climate change (commentary)
Hurricane Ida’s warpath is the latest in a litany of natural disasters, estimated to have cost the world $210 billion in damage in 2020, that is shining a spotlight on climate change. Given extensive air time and word counts by global news outlets, a perpetual stream of climate reports described ...
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#1311572021-10-26
African leaders, hard-hit by climate change, plan a tougher stance at Glasgow negotiations
Gabon’s Environment Minister, Lee White, is readying an arsenal of arguments in favour of funding the next stage in Africa’s campaign to stave off the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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#1311582021-10-26
Revealed: 60% of Americans say oil firms are to blame for the climate crisis
A majority of Americans want to see oil and gas companies held to account for lying about the climate crisis and contributing to global heating, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the Guardian, Vice News, and Covering Climate Now.
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#1311602021-10-26
Joanna Lumley says wartime-style rationing could help solve climate crisis
Joanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.
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#1311612021-10-26
Climate crisis: economists ‘grossly undervalue young lives’, warns Stern
Many economic assessments of the climate crisis “grossly undervalue the lives of young people and future generations”, Prof Nicholas Stern warned on Tuesday, before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1311622021-10-26
I chaired Cop21 when we delivered the Paris agreement. We must go further in Glasgow
In the fight against global warming, the 2015 Cop21 meeting that yielded the Paris agreement has become the landmark Cop. Glasgow Cop26 must be an accelerator of action.
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#1311662021-10-26
Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint
Tackling climate change will require world leaders to take action on a global level. But as individuals we also contribute to damaging emissions. Here are some things you can do to reduce your personal impact.
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#1311672021-10-26
The numbers behind: Climate change
Climate change is real. We now know that for certain. We are already experiencing doomsday scenarios that climate scientists had projected for the distant future.
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#1311682021-10-26
Lancet Offers Grim Assessment of Climate Change and Health
The world is mostly failing to respond to the climate crisis, leading to an “unabated rise” in heat-related deaths, exposure to wildfire smoke and infectious disease, and threats to food and water security.
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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.