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#1266132021-01-14
Climate change is hurting children's diets, global study finds
A first-of-its-kind, international study of 107,000 children finds that higher temperatures are an equal or even greater contributor to child malnutrition and low quality diets than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate sanitation, and poor education.
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#1345252022-05-17
Climate change is hurting insurers, report says
Climate change is hurting the insurance industry and only 8% of insurers are preparing adequately for its impact, consultants Capgemini and financial industry body Efma said in a report on Tuesday.
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#1188142018-11-06
Climate change is impacting us too, says Prince Albert II of Monaco
Rising sea levels, intense heatwaves and invasive species are among climate-related threats that the Principality of Monaco takes extremely seriously, underlines Prince Albert II in an interview with UN Environment’s Patron for the Polar Regions Slava Fetisov.
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#1337482022-03-07
Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle
Rising global temperatures have shifted at least twice the amount of freshwater from warm regions towards the Earth's poles than previously thought as the water cycle intensifies, according to new analysis.
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#1340112022-04-12
Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the “skin” covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This “biocrust,” made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, retains water and produces nutrients that other organisms can use. Now, new research shows cli ...
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#1274362021-03-01
Climate change is leading to premature births in the Brazilian Amazon
Extreme weather patterns and flooding worsened by climate change are adversely affecting the health of babies born in the Amazon rainforest.
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#1202092019-03-05
Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades, it may be very difficult to predict how climate change will affect migratory bird populations and the ecosystems the ...
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#1232412019-12-03
Climate change is making Christmas tree shopping harder than ever
If you’re shopping for a live Christmas tree this year, you may have to search harder than in the past. Over the last five years Christmas tree shortages have been reported in many parts of the US.
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#1330272022-02-08
Climate change is making Europeans vote for Green parties — in some places more than others
Experience of extreme climate events in Europe (especially warmer temperatures) makes people more concerned about the environment. This is making people more likely to take political action — most notably, voting for Green parties, a new study suggests. For the researchers, this could help bette ...
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#1280332021-04-14
Climate change is making Indian monsoon seasons more chaotic
If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by a team of German researchers that compared more than 30 state-of-the-art climate models from all around the world. The study predicts more ...
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#1262822020-12-16
Climate change is making air pollution worse in Korea
Researchers have found a link between hot and dry weather and air pollution in Korea. Over the past few decades, East Asia has seen a marked decline in air quality, particularly in terms of ground-level ozone pollution.
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#1228902019-11-06
Climate change is making deer evolve to give birth earlier in the year, scientists discover
We usually think of evolution as a slow process that takes place over millions of years. However, a team of scientists has now documented how wild red deer on a Scottish island appear to be evolving over the space of decades in response to climate change, causing them to give birth earlier in th ...
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#1261822020-12-11
Climate change is making extreme weather events worse
Climate change is amplifying the impacts of extreme weather events, according to a report published by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). Nearly 80% of studies published in five years since the conclusion of the Paris climate summit found that climate change played a role in amplif ...
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#1352082022-07-05
Climate change is making flooding worse: 3 reasons the world is seeing more record-breaking deluges
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches of rain over three days in the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park, rapidly melting snowpack.
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#1301682021-08-31
Climate change is making hurricanes stronger, slower and wetter. Ida checked all the boxes
Human-caused climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous. They are producing more rainfall, moving slower once they make landfall and generating larger storm surges along the coast. Hurricane Ida was a prime example of those changes, and scientists say storms like this will become more co ...
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#1292792021-06-14
Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines
Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published today, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
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#1293182021-06-15
Climate change is making rocky mountain forests more flammable now: Study
When a fire burns a forest, it sends tiny bits of charcoal into the air. If a lake is nearby, some of that charcoal will settle to the bottom, adding to the layers that build up each year.
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#1203242019-03-12
Climate change is making springtime weird. Vivaldi's music shows how.
Dear Sara, I would like to read your prediction of the effects of climate change on the traditional four weather seasons.From a lifestyle preference, it has been nice for me to know that in the summer, there will be the warmth of the ocean.
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#1276682021-03-10
Climate change is making summers longer and winters shorter
In the 1950s in the Northern Hemisphere, the four seasons arrived in a predictable and fairly even pattern. However, climate change is now driving dramatic and irregular changes to the length and start dates of the seasons.
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#1223032019-09-20
Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement
Human-induced climate change is a moral wrong. It involves one group of humans harming others. People of this generation harming those in future generations. People in the developed world harming those in the developing world.
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#1345522022-05-18
Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the oceans
Much of the ‘excess heat’ stored in the North Atlantic is in the deep ocean, at depths of below 2,300 feet, new research has shown.
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#1208822019-04-30
Climate change is on the move — but the political debate is standing still
Voters' support for climate action still splits along left-right lines
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#1197482019-02-04
Climate change is roasting the Himalaya region, threatening millions
The peaks and valleys of the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountain ranges are some of the most inaccessible, remote regions in the world today—but even the most isolated valleys have been touched by climate change, say the authors of a comprehensive new report about the vast region.
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#1295422021-07-13
Climate change is shrinking Italy's iconic Lake Como, and fast
Italy's Lake Como is legendary for its natural beauty, and it is hugely popular with international visitors, especially Americans. But melting glaciers surrounding the lake are threatening its future and hurting the local economy. For our "Eye on Earth" series, CBS News correspondent Chris Lives ...
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#1334062022-02-22
Climate change is sickening, literally!
Climate change has a major role in the shifting of range and seasonality of several diseases, the most prominent of which includes Lyme disease. In fact, Lyme was initially a summer disease; however, since 1990, warmer climates have shortened winters and, as a result, extended the duration of Ly ...
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#1194612019-01-17
Climate change is slowing down Antarctic starfish, Otago scientists find
A sturdy, resilient starfish from Antarctica is giving Kiwi scientists insight into how climate change can affect the life cycles of sea creatures.
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#1304272021-09-15
Climate change is slowly killing Lebanon's famed cedar trees
For centuries, Lebanon’s famed Cedar tree sat proudly on the mountains of this small Mediterranean state. It has also adorned the centre of the country’s red and white flag.
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#1213812019-06-25
Climate change is taking its toll on Greek monuments, say scientists
ATHENS (Reuters) - Climate change is threatening ancient Greek monuments, among them the Acropolis, one of the most-visited archaeological sites in the world, scientists said.
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#1294342021-06-29
Climate change is the biggest health threat of this century
The effects of climate change, such as changes in precipitation patterns, more intense droughts and heatwaves, sea-level rise and stronger hurricanes, will impact human health with increasing force, affecting people all over the globe. In the United States alone, the health costs of climate chan ...
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#1243912020-02-26
Climate change is the biggest health threat this century — here’s how medical schools are adapting
On the lakefront campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, which in 60 years could have average temperatures resembling those felt currently in Kansas City nearly 500 miles to its south, the next wave of aspiring doctors settles in for a “Climate Change and Medicine” elective filled to c ...
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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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#1265132020-12-30
Climate change is threatening these 10 species in Canada
Although the global havoc wreaked by the coronavirus appeared to take precedence over all else in 2020, the issue of climate change didn’t just disappear, even if it did take a backseat.
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#1232072019-12-02
Climate change is totally reshaping ocean communities
As waters warm, cold-loving species, from plankton to fish, leave the area and warm water species become more successful, the researchers say.
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#1348682022-06-02
Climate change is turning the European Alps from white to green
Snow in the European Alps is melting and invasive plant species are outcompeting native Alpine plants, satellite imagery has shown. Both findings will reinforce climate change, say scientists.
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#1342802022-05-04
Climate change is why New Mexico's wildfire season started early this year
The smoke emerges, like a white veil draped across the sky, on the drive up from Albuquerque to this picturesque city of 84,000. Historically, New Mexico’s wildfire season begins in May or June, but this year, wildfires sprung up in the drought-parched New Mexican desert in April.
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#1251392020-04-17
Climate change isn't going away — it's still important to recognize Earth Day
This Sunday, April 19, Earth Week kicks off with a virtual stage of speakers, activists, scientists and performers. To celebrate the event’s 50th anniversary, the Earth Day Initiative has gathered a lineup of high profile guests, including Elizabeth Warren, Katherine Hayhoe, Gina McCarthy, Karen ...
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#1343932022-05-12
Climate change isn't just making cyclones worse, it's making the floods they cause worse too
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events on our planet.
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#1302142021-09-01
Climate change leads to 18.52% decrease in snow cover in Himachal: Study
Due to climate change, there is an overall decrease in snow cover in Himachal Pradesh by 18.52% in just one year. A study titled Assessment of Spatial Distribution of Seasonal Snow Cover during the Year 2020-21 in Himachal Pradesh Using AWIFS Satellite Data’ carried out by the Centre on Climate ...
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#1271102021-02-16
Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America's largest animals
A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas.
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#1294832021-07-09
Climate change likely to increase spread of mosquito-borne diseases
Climate change could put billions more people at risk for deadly mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, researchers said. They see the danger zone expanding within the United States, Europe and Asia.
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#1341382022-04-20
Climate change linked to fewer bugs, study finds
The insects that keep the world running by pollinating plants and supporting food chains face grave risks, a new study has found. The combination of climate change and heavy agriculture is having a profound impact on the abundance and diversity of insects, according to a study published Wednesda ...
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#1301012021-08-24
Climate change made deadly floods in Western Europe at least 20% more likely - study
Climate change has made extreme rainfall events of the kind that sent lethal torrents of water hurtling through parts of Germany and Belgium last month at least 20% more likely to happen in the region, scientists said Tuesday.
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#1289242021-05-31
Climate change makes the West Nile virus outbreak credible in the UK
West Nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes and no vaccine. Most people have no symptoms at all, but it can cause serious neurological diseases.
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#1328082022-01-31
Climate change may be supercharging Northeast snowstorms
The weekend blizzard that slammed coastal Mid-Atlantic and New England with up to 30.9 inches of snow and howling winds is consistent with climate science research showing how the characteristics of these winter storms are changing.
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#1222142019-09-13
Climate change may be throwing coral sex out of sync
Bad timing for coral sex might be an underappreciated threat of climate change. Spawning is out of sync for at least three widespread coral species in the Red Sea, says Tom Shlesinger, a marine biologist at Tel Aviv University. And warmer seawater temperatures could be playing a role.
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#1234842019-12-17
Climate change may be why birds are migrating earlier across the United States
A large-scale analysis of bird migrations in the contiguous United States confirms what ornithologists and amateur birders already suspected: Overall, birds’ seasonal long-distance flights are happening earlier than they did a quarter of a century ago.
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#1219512019-08-20
Climate change may change the way ocean waves impact 50% of the world’s coastlines
The rise in sea levels is not the only way climate change will affect the coasts. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, found a warming planet will also alter ocean waves along more than 50% of the world’s coastlines.
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#1283012021-04-28
Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole’ was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by climate change, a new study suggests.
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#1334742022-02-24
Climate change may increase wildfires by 50% by 2100, study finds
Thanks in large part to climate change, the world's future will be marked by a dramatic increase in wildfires, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Program.
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#1299422021-08-13
Climate change may influence volcanic eruptions
Changes in sea level can influence volcanic eruptions, according to new research led by Oxford Brookes University. Climate change may influence volcanic eruptions