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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 ...
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#1309582021-10-19
Video: How can we eat without cooking the planet?
Professor Susan Jebb , Oxford's diet and population health expert maintains, "We cannot meet Net Zero targets without changing our diet.". Talking in the latest of 10 videos from leading Oxford experts in the run up to the COP26 climate conference, Professor Jebb points out that agriculture acco ...
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#1309612021-10-19
Climate action needed to avert 'health catastrophe'
To achieve sustained recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and avoid an "impending health catastrophe," countries must commit to targeted action on climate change, health experts have urged ahead of the UN climate summit, COP26.
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#609955th Sessions of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)
18 - 22 October 2021, TBC, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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#1307322021-10-13
Gaza olive harvest 'down 60 percent' amid effects of climate change, ministry says
Gaza's Agriculture Ministry said on Wednesday that climate change has caused a dramatic drop in the number of olives harvested in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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#1307332021-10-13
Can the human body survive the extreme temperatures caused by climate change?
An Italian research centre is testing how organisms and objects react in extreme climate conditions. The centre is able to generate extreme weathers and temperatures from -40 degrees Celsius up to +60 which could be used to predict how climate change is affecting the natural world.
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#1307342021-10-13
We can’t tackle climate change if we don't look after our forests, says new report
Seven years on from the New York Declaration on Forests - a global pact to end deforestation by 2030 - most countries are falling far short of their national goals.
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#1307352021-10-13
Stark Images Show What Climate Change Could Mean For Mumbai
Climate Central has released a set of stark, interactive images that show what will happen to some of the most iconic landmarks across the world if the climate change crisis is not tackled. Climate Central is a nonprofit news organization that analyses and reports on climate science.
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#1307362021-10-13
Pakistan is facing an existential crisis
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report in August 2021, on the heels of one of the hottest and most devastating summers on record: floods in northern Europe and China, wildfires in the US, and heatwaves everywhere.
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#1307372021-10-13
Climate change: England must 'adapt or die,' agency warns
England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday.
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#1307382021-10-13
Climate change will cause more floods and droughts and England must become resilient, Environment Agency warns
Climate change will cause more floods and droughts, rising sea levels and a greater demand for water supplies, the Environment Agency has warned.
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#1307392021-10-13
The AP Interview: NZ climate chief to aim higher at UN talks
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that humans are very good at responding to an immediate crisis, says New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw. But when it comes to dealing with a slower-moving threat like climate change, he says, we’re “terribly bad.”
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#1307402021-10-13
World Food Day: Climate Change is Exacerbating Hunger & Conflict—it’s Time to Break the Cycle
Hunger, violent conflict and the visible impacts of climate change are all on the rise. World Food Day, October 16, is a reminder that we need to talk about the intricate ways that these challenges are connected—and how to tackle them together.
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#1307422021-10-13
Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
Current plans to cut global carbon emissions will fall 60% short of their 2050 net zero target, the International Energy Agency has said, as it urged leaders to use the upcoming Cop26 climate conference to send an “unmistakable signal” with concrete policy plans.
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#1307472021-10-13
'Climate change in Tibetan Plateau impacts livelihoods'
In the run up to the Glasgow climate talks (COP26) and the ongoing UN biodiversity summit, a new report on Tuesday blamed China, the world's biggest maker and user of coal, cement and steel, for climate change across the Tibetan Plateau, the world's 'third pole'.
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#1307512021-10-13
Overseas trade has a hidden environmental 'disaster footprint'
Environmental disasters are increasingly a fact of life around the world. Each year, floods, droughts and landslides affect tens of millions of people, leaving vast human and economic destruction in their wake. The cost in human lives and livelihoods each year is enormous.
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#1307062021-10-12
How can healthcare professionals help address climate change?
As climate change becomes a more pressing global concern, more needs to be done to address its health effects. We spoke to researchers Dr. Rebecca Huntley and Dr. Lai Heng Foong about how healthcare professionals can help.
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#1307072021-10-12
Natural Weathering and Carbon Sinks can Help Fight Climate Change
The extensive habitats of the earth, spanning from the poles to the equator, have the strong potential to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the undiscovered rock nitrogen weathering reactions that distribute natural fertilizers across the globe.
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#1307082021-10-12
Climate change affects 85% of world population, analysis shows
Climate change is already impacting 85% of the world's population as around the globe temperatures rise and fall as predicted by tens of thousands of studies conducted throughout history, an analysis of those studies found Monday.
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#1306102021-10-06
COP26: billions are being spent tackling climate change – where is it all going? Climate Fight podcast part 1
As hosts of COP26 – this year’s annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the UK has asked attendees to step up efforts to mobilise public and private sources of financial aid.
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#1306122021-10-06
‘Eye-watering’: climate change disasters will cost Australia billions each year, study finds
Climate change-related disasters will cost Australia $73bn a year by 2060, even if action to curb emissions is taken now, a report has found.
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#1306132021-10-06
Terrawatch: how climate change alters impact of volcanic eruptions
It’s well known that volcanic eruptions alter the climate but can human-made climate change alter volcanic eruptions? Curiously, the answer appears to be yes.
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#1306152021-10-06
Google Maps to show the lowest carbon route for car journeys
Google Maps is to offer drivers the lowest carbon route for their chosen journey as part of the search company’s new environmentally friendly policies.
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#599454th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and WGI-AR6 Approval Plenary
4 - 10 October 2021, To be determined
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#6098Pre-COP26 meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
30 September - 2 October 2021, TBD, Italy
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#1305802021-09-30
COP26: The biggest climate change conference in the world and why it matters
The planet, you've likely heard, isn't doing so well. The latest report from the United Nations' chief climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shows global temperatures are very likely to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the next few decades. Human-gene ...
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#1305812021-09-30
Climate change’s grey area gets overdue focus
The net is gradually closing on corporate green laggards. The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), championed by former Bank of England boss Mark Carney, already obliges companies to divulge their exposure to risks relating to things like carbon emissions. Now there’s the ...
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#1305832021-09-30
Coffee bean price spike just a taste of what’s to come with climate change
Scientists have long warned climate change is coming for our morning coffee and a recent spike in global bean prices could be the first sign it’s actually happening.