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#1321892021-12-15
Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the dagger.”
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#1269332021-02-09
Climate change has high cost
Increasingly erratic weather caused by global warming threatens global economic growth, scientists warned Monday with a report showing that even short-lived climate volatility can have a significant impact.
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#1234202019-12-12
Climate change has made the world's deadliest lake way more dangerous
I'm standing on a 45-year-old dam high in the Peruvian Andes, gripped by a mix of awe and terror.The glacial waters of Lake Palcacocha lap at the 25-foot-tall structure. Billions of gallons of meltwater stretch a mile back to the foot of the ice-capped peaks of Palcaraju and Pucaranra that top o ...
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#1303222021-09-07
Climate change helped intensify Hurricane Ida: A potential preview of what's to come
By the time Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday morning, the storm had strengthened dramatically. Picking up intensity overnight as it moved over warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, it hit the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane.
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#1239912020-01-28
Climate change helped spawn East Africa’s locust crisis
An alien species visiting Earth in the year 2020 would be forgiven for assuming that humankind had succeeded in pissing off some kind of vengeful God. This month alone, mega-wildfires ripped through Australia, massive king tides swept California shorelines, and, now, billions of desert locusts h ...
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#1274372021-03-01
Climate change hits Nicaraguan coffee farmers
Jinotega — Maria Gonzalez knows that growing coffee in Nicaragua’s northern mountains — as she has done since she was a little girl — gets harder and harder each year.
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#1342042022-04-27
Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas
Picking wild morel mushrooms brought big money to mountain villages in the Indian Himalayas. But higher spring temperatures and low rainfall may mean an end to the lucrative harvest.
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#1299832021-08-16
Climate change hits sushi supply chain amid California water war
If you've eaten sushi anywhere in the U.S., chances are the rice came from California's Sacramento Valley. Fritz Durst, a sixth-generation farmer, has grown the grain and other crops there for more than four decades. But this year, amid a historic drought, Durst is planting only half as many acr ...
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#1292232021-06-11
Climate change impact as devastating as COVID-19 pandemic: minister
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati cautioned that the impact of climate change would be huge, akin to the COVID-19 pandemic, so all nations should contribute to lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1296382021-07-23
Climate change impact is getting bigger
The extreme climate events in Europe, North America and China in the last two months have not left any doubt about the fact that the earth is well into the time of climate change. The time for evidence is well past and now we are witnessing manifestations of climate change on scales that are get ...
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#1205742019-03-29
Climate change impacts accelerating: WMO report
The United Nations' weather agency says extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced two million people to relocate as man-made climate change worsened.
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#1190892018-12-18
Climate change impacts agriculture in the northern Himalayas
Unseasonal rain and snowfall is the main reason for agriculture failing in Himachal Pradesh. “Hailstorms or torrential rains are usually destructive to our crops while snowfall is not,” said Uma Devi of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, when speaking to Mongabay-India.
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#1206712019-04-08
Climate change impacts peatland carbon dioxide gas exchange primarily via moisture conditions
Northern peatlands store approximately one third of global soil carbon, namely around 500 gigatons. Because the peatland carbon cycling is largely controlled by partly anaerobic soil conditions, the carbon stored in these soils is extremely vulnerable to climate warming that is expected to reduc ...
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#1322632021-12-22
Climate change in 2021: There's no turning back now
Across a quarter century of U.N. climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen in 2009), another a stunning success (Paris in 2015) and the rest landed somewhere in between.
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#1205442019-03-28
Climate change in Africa: “A race we must win and a race we will win,” African Development Bank says
Fighting climate change with robust implementation of national commitments and partnerships was the main thrust of African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, Dr. Anthony Nyong’s closing remarks at the end of Africa Climate Week.
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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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#1222052019-09-12
Climate change in the Southern Hemisphere
The most important goal of the first phase of the SouthTRAC (Transport and Composition of the Southern Hemisphere UTLS) campaign is to investigate gravity waves on the southern tip of South America and over Antarctica. T
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#1207222019-04-10
Climate change in the subarctic: warmer lakes pose a danger to cold-water fish populations
Climate change is often presented primarily as a problem for future generations. However, it is already affecting our lakes in the Nordic countries in a disturbing way.
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#1250142020-04-08
Climate change in the time of coronavirus: How we can green the ECB
If, like Cicero wrote, the sinews of war are infinite money, let’s make sure the funds are being used for the right battles, write Brook Riley and Peter Sweatman. Brook Riley is head of EU affairs at the Rockwool Group, a world leader in building insulation Peter Sweatman is CEO of Climate Strat ...
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#1199412019-02-14
Climate change increases potential for conflict and violence
Images of extensive flooding or fire-ravaged communities help us see how climate change is accelerating the severity of natural disasters. The devastation is obvious, but what is not as clear is the indirect effect of these disasters, or more generally of rapid climate change, on violence and ag ...
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#1343882022-05-12
Climate change increases risks of tree death
Planting a tree seems like a generally good thing to do for the environment. Trees, after all, take in carbon dioxide, offsetting some of the emissions that contribute to climate change.
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#1197722019-02-05
Climate change increasing air pollution across globe: Study
Rising temperatures increase the concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere that cause air pollution, according to a study which highlights another disturbing effect of climate change.
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#1301002021-08-24
Climate change intensified European floods
Climate change made the deadly floods that devastated parts of Germany and Belgium in July up to nine times more likely, according to an international study published Tuesday.
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#1292212021-06-10
Climate change is a threat to Africa’s transport systems: what must be done
Transportation infrastructure, such as roads and railway systems, is one of the sectors most threatened by climate change. Extreme weather events – such as flooding, sea level rises and storm surges – repeatedly wreak havoc on transport networks.
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#1267252021-01-27
Climate change is a ‘global emergency’, people say in biggest ever opinion poll
Described as the biggest climate survey yet conducted, UN Development Programme (UNDP)’s “People’s Climate Vote” poll also showed that people supported more comprehensive climate policies to respond to the challenges. The survey covered 50 countries with over half the world’s population.
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#1227532019-10-25
Climate change is affecting the way Europe floods, experts warn
Climate change is disrupting the rhythms of spring growing and river flooding across Europe, which could pose new problems for biodiversity and food security in floodplains, scientists say.
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#1285152021-05-07
Climate change is already impacting price stability, ECB’s Lagarde says
Climate change is already impacting price stability and it will have an effect on monetary policy, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Friday.
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#1233352019-12-09
Climate change is also a serious health crisis
The climate crisis is also a health crisis. The same emissions that cause global warming are also largely responsible for polluting the air we breathe, causing heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and infections, and affecting every organ in the human body.
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#1334372022-02-23
Climate change is causing nature mismatches, says UN report
The pace of climate change is accelerating too fast for many plant and animal species to adapt, and leading to profound impacts on species’ ability to survive and food production, according to a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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#1334402022-02-23
Climate change is causing nature mismatches, says UN report
The pace of climate change is accelerating too fast for many plant and animal species to adapt, and leading to profound impacts on species’ ability to survive and food production, according to a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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#1226272019-10-11
Climate change is causing tropical moths to shrink in size
Researchers have discovered the first evidence of tropical insects shrinking in size in their bid to survive rising temperatures.
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#1200832019-02-25
Climate change is central to geography lessons
It is right that the analysis of how our climate has changed is properly rooted in documented science. Similar rigour should be applied to whether, and how, this issue is included in the curriculum. The claim that climate change is a “peripheral subtopic” in geography is simply not supported by ...
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#1284432021-05-06
Climate change is coming for our bananas
While global warming has increased banana yields in the past few decades, the trend is bound to reverse. Rising temperatures will severely affect bananas, making them more prone to disease.
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#1241872020-02-17
Climate change is coming for the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., overlooks the Tidal Basin, a man-made body of water surrounded by cherry trees. Visitors can stroll along the water’s edge, gazing up at the stately monument.
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#1348222022-06-02
Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce
It got really, really hot early last summer in California’s Central Valley. For days, temperatures spiked above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, well over the 30-year average.
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#1303942021-09-14
Climate change is coming for your snacks: Why repeated drought threatens dried fruits and veggies
Potatoes can become more brittle, apples may be harder to dehydrate, and sultanas might be off the menu altogether—these are possible outcomes of recurring and intensifying droughts under climate change in Australia.
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#1325842022-01-18
Climate change is creating security threats around the world – and militaries are responding
The British military is currently “too slow and resistant to change”, according to Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the UK’s chief of defence staff. The urgent always takes priority over the important. But in the context of one of the world’s biggest security issues – climate change – threats and adapt ...
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#1343622022-05-11
Climate change is devastating the Global South
Right now in India and Pakistan, a record-breaking heatwave is impacting the daily lives of nearly a billion people. Scorching temperatures are damaging wheat harvests, preventing many labourers from working outdoors, and making people vulnerable to serious health issues and even death.
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#1300462021-08-19
Climate change is driving the North Water Polynya toward collapse, study finds
The North Water Polynya, known to Inuit as Pikialasorsuaq, is an area of year-round open water wedged between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere and Devon islands, and it’s a hotspot of biological productivity.
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#1288772021-05-27
Climate change is erasing 'flammability barrier' that protects high-elevation forests
Wildfires in the western United States are increasingly happening at high elevations, in mountainous areas that were previously too wet to burn, according to a new study.
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#1346962022-05-25
Climate change is eroding a precious resource: sleep
Everyone knows the horrible feeling: A stuffy night, just a little too warm, leads to restless sleep, and then next morning, you feel like a slow, groggy shell of yourself.
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#1339102022-04-01
Climate change is everywhere in the story of a mounting global food crisis
Since Russia's war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage.
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#1277972021-03-23
Climate change is feeding our plants junk food
The human-led climate crisis has begun to impact our world in profound ways. Along with the well-known impacts, such as increased weather extremes and rising global temperatures, there are secondary effects.
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#1209942019-05-09
Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt
WASHINGTON--Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China--the northernmost tree species on Earth - are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research.
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#1224142019-09-27
Climate change is going to make septic systems a problem for millions
A major UN report released this week shows the sea level is rising around the globe, which means people who live in coastal cities face real risks from losing their property, and in some cases their live, to the rising ocean and the intense storms these warmer waters bring.
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#1228402019-11-01
Climate change is having a ‘drastic’ effect on flooding
Climate change is disrupting the rhythms of spring river flooding across Europe which could consequently pose new problems for biodiversity and food security.
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#1345232022-05-17
Climate change is heating up Florida. That could bring more wildfires, new report warns
When Hurricane Michael tore through North Florida in 2018 as a Category 5 storm, it left more than 3 million acres of felled trees in its wake.
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#1296212021-07-22
Climate change is here — not on its way
From heatwaves and wildfires in North America to catastrophic flooding in Germany and China, the world over, climate scientists' predictions are being horribly realized. We hear from Californians on the frontline of drought, a disaster expert helps us understand climate risk, and a young Ugandan ...
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#1193372019-01-11
Climate change is hitting food production, say Rwanda’s farm co-ops
Farm co-ops in Rwanda have warned that prolonged drought due to climate change have hit their production levels.In a new document from the country’s National Cooperatives Federation, Climate change impact on agriculture, the sector points to other climate-related problems, with damage to infrast ...
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#1336092022-03-01
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
The negative impacts of climate change are mounting much faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United Nations climate panel.