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#1305842021-09-30
Invasive potential of tropical fruit flies in temperate regions under climate change
Tropical fruit flies are considered among the most economically important invasive species detected in temperate areas of the United States and the European Union. Detections often trigger quarantine and eradication programs that are conducted without a holistic understanding of the threat posed.
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#1305852021-09-30
COP26's success rests partly on global climate fund promised in 2015 — and it's short billions
Climate scientist Saleem Huq says the world should prepare for a big letdown when the UN climate conference gets under way next month in Glasgow, Scotland.
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#1305862021-09-30
Response to Covid-19 and climate change: a remarkable divergence
As the year 2021 progressed, a remarkable divergence between the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to climate change became ever more apparent.
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#1305872021-09-30
Battling climate change underwater: Italy opens its first 'Smart Bay'
Climate scientists have a new tool to help protect the Mediterranean Sea from the impact of climate change: Italy's first 'Smart Bay'.
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#1305962021-09-30
Why climate change is making it harder to chase fall foliage
Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether.
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#1305982021-09-30
Trying to stay afloat: How Mumbai's climate action plan falls short
Mumbai, commonly known as the city of dreams, faces a future that is waist-deep in floodwaters and rising sea levels. In the past couple of decades, several attempts to adopt climate action mechanisms against sea level rise and flooding have been made, although most of them have fallen short, as ...
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#1306052021-09-30
Earth is dimming. Climate change could make it worse
Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci proposed a radical theory to explain a scientific mystery. When the moon is in its crescent form, it’s sometimes possible to make out a faint, ghostly outline of the rest of the circle.
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#1305432021-09-23
Have climate change predictions matched reality? Podcast
For decades, scientists have warned that unchecked global warming could bring climate extremes such as severe droughts, flash floods and rising sea levels. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we talk to three climate change experts on how predictions of a changing world are holding up ag ...
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#1305462021-09-23
Boris Johnson tells UN that Cop26 must be ‘turning point for humanity’
Cop26 must be a “turning point for humanity” in just 40 days’ time, Boris Johnson has urged in a call to arms to fellow global leaders ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1305522021-09-23
Report: Global warming is causing 'unprecedented changes' to oceans
Human-induced global warming is "causing unprecedented changes" to the oceans including warming waters, decreasing ice levels and rising seas, according to a recently published report by more than 150 scientists.
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#1305672021-09-23
Young People Are Very, Very Anxious About Climate Change
Maybe it’s the wildfires, or the hurricanes, or the changes to the plants and animals that surround us, but our children are feeling the impact of the climate emergency.
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#1305692021-09-23
Beira: A city's fight against climate change
In 2019, Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique's port city of Beira. The city is now setting up large green areas designed to absorb future floodwaters – but entire fishing communities need to relocate.
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#1305122021-09-22
Rethinking resilience in the face of climate change
By the time Hurricane Ida hit Philadelphia in early September, it had already dropped massive rainfall on parts of the Gulf Coast. As the storm continued north, record-breaking downpours in New York City led to extensive flooding. Then images started to emerge of water rising so high it reached ...
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#1305132021-09-22
Animals' limbs are stretching and warping because of climate change
Joel Asaph Allen is one of the most famous ornithologists in American history, and even a brief scanning of his career helps illustrate why. The 19th century scientist traveled from the Dakota Territory to Brazil in order to collect specimens.
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#1305142021-09-22
Bad news for pasta lovers: the effect of climate change on food staples
Domesticated maize has been shaping civilization for about 9,000 years, and still provides a big portion of the developing world’s calories. By the 2040s, though, the odds that the four countries producing nearly all global maize exports will simultaneously lose more than 10% of their crop may b ...
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#1305152021-09-22
Climate change: Wildlife and plant species decline 'a crisis'
Stopping the decline in wildlife and plant species is as important as tackling climate change, the head of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has said. Clare Pillman said nature was in "crisis" and new targets were needed. All five of the UK's environment watchdogs - including NRW - have published a ...
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#1305292021-09-22
Mitigating the impacts of extreme rainfall events in a changing climate
Torrential rainfall quickly transformed New York City's streets and expressways into rivers and lakes on Wednesday night September 2, 2021, shutting down the entire metro system (the first time since Hurricane Sandy) and forcing traffic throughout the city to come to a halt.
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#1304772021-09-20
Climate Change and Cherries
What do cherries have to do with climate change? Youth Climate Corps (YCC) crew members in Kimberley/Cranbrook can answer that question, after spending eight days on food recovery projects – two of them spent salvaging cherries and sharing them with a healthy food sharing initiative.
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#1304782021-09-20
Raising Ambitions for Food Systems and Climate Change
The Food Climate Partnership (FCP)—a consortium of scientists and policy practitioners from Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) and Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), New York University’s Sc ...
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#1304792021-09-20
The 10 Asian cities most threatened by climate change flooding
Climate change will bring flooding to the world’s coasts, and it’s becoming clearer which cities are most threatened. Cities with the worst exposure to coastal flooding in the coming decades are overwhelmingly located in Asia, according to a comprehensive analysis by leading climate scientists, ...
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#1304802021-09-20
To a Lesser Degree—a new climate podcast from The Economist
RISING GLOBAL temperatures have already increased the frequency of floods, wildfires, droughts and heatwaves around the world. If humanity does not change course rapidly, the effects of climate change will become more extreme.
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#1304812021-09-20
Climate change: From deep scientific understanding to practical solutions
Markku Kulmala, from the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, discusses the ACCC Flagship concerning adaptation to climate change, from deep scientific understanding to practical solutions
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#1305002021-09-20
The unexplored region of the atmosphere that could help predict climate change
About 17 kilometers above the Earth's surface, the first layer of the atmosphere meets the second one. At a boundary called the tropopause, the troposphere ends and the stratosphere begins.
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#1305012021-09-20
Pinpointing the role of climate change in every storm is impossible, and a luxury most countries can't afford
Tropical Storm Ida recently left a path of devastation across the US, capping a summer beset by wildfires, heatwaves and floods which broke records around the world. The inevitable question after each of these extreme weather events is the same: to what extent did climate change make it worse?
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#6085International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
16 September 2021, Nairobi, Kenya
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#1304212021-09-15
How inaction on climate change can worsen the crisis in Afghanistan
After decades of foreign intervention and violent conflict, the American mission in Afghanistan has ended and the Taliban have announced a new government. But for millions of Afghans, human-induced climate change has only magnified the strife.
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#1304222021-09-15
Birds with bigger beaks and longer-legged shrews: Animals are evolving to cope with climate change
Animals are evolving quicker to cope with the warming climate — but where does that leave those that cannot adapt quick enough? A new study, published by Deakin University in Australia, found that birds, in particular, are developing larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temp ...
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#1304232021-09-15
How Can Cities Tackle Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss in Nature-Smart Ways?
Every day, the world awakens to news of another heatwave, flood, drought, tropical cyclone, wildfire, or other climate-induced natural hazard. The new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives a code-red climate warning, with a forecast for global warming of 1.5°C by 2 ...
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#1304252021-09-15
Younger generations are the most fatalistic about climate change
To better understand differences between generations, including how they perceive one another and the biggest challenges of the day, our team at the Policy Institute at King’s College London and New Scientist commissioned a survey of more than 4000 people aged 18 and over in the US and UK. Respo ...
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#1304262021-09-15
Russian icebreaker fleet poses as a warning on climate change
A massive Russian icebreaker ship clears a path to the North Pole, cutting through the thin ice of the Arctic Ocean. Even in this far-flung region, the impact of climate change can be seen.
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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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#1304282021-09-15
Globally, climate change drives a willingness to change lifestyles
This year has seen a huge number of climate-related disasters, from hurricanes to drought and from fires to floods. In the middle of the chaos, the IPCC dropped the first installment of its latest climate report, mapping out how our current choices will shape the planet's future. All of this wou ...
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#1304302021-09-15
Excess rainfall in September result of climate change in Odisha, say experts
In the last 3 days, Odisha received 448% more rain than is normal for this time in September, bringing down the deficiency from 29% to 14%. The huge downpour has led to a deluge in several cities including Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack and affected over 2 million people in 20 of the 30 districts
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#1304312021-09-15
Climate Change Means More Subway Floods; How Cities Are Adapting
Millions of people rely on subways for transportation. But as the world warms, climate-driven flooding in subways is becoming more and more common. NPR correspondents Lauren Sommer and Rebecca Hersher talk about how cities across the world are adapting.
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#1304362021-09-15
Drought puts 2.1 million Kenyans at risk of starvation
An estimated 2.1 million Kenyans face starvation due to a drought in half the country, which is affecting harvests. The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) said people living in 23 counties across the arid north, northeastern and coastal parts of the country will be in “urgent need” of ...
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#1304562021-09-15
Flash flood submerges southern French villages, fields
Emergency workers rescued or evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields into rivers and lakes.
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#1304592021-09-15
Rising temperatures reshape when and how much people get outdoors on public lands
As summer winds down, millions of Americans are shelving their sandals, draining their kayaks, and dusting off skis in preparation for the recreation season ahead. But seasonal plans for hiking, biking, and skiing will likely shift with the changing climate in years ahead, according to new resea ...
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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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#1304002021-09-14
River Tamar allowed to flood farmland to help wildlife and climate
The herons and little egrets have already begun to hunt in the muddy shallows and the hope is that within a few years, rarer wading birds such as curlew and mammals including otters and harvest mice will appear.
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#1304042021-09-14
Climate change: World now sees twice as many days over 50C
The number of extremely hot days every year when the temperature reaches 50C has doubled since the 1980s, a global BBC analysis has found. They also now happen in more areas of the world than before, presenting unprecedented challenges to human health and to how we live.
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#1304102021-09-14
Is fighting poverty compatible with fighting climate change?
The amount of energy required to provide decent living standards for the entire world’s population is a fraction of the annual energy budget compatible with keeping climate change within 1.5 °C of warming, a new study suggests. It would take just 28%– 39% of the annual global energy budget in th ...
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#1304122021-09-14
How Premier Wine Regions Are Adapting to Climate Change
Two years ago, Boris Champy left his role as estate manager for Clos des Lambrays, an esteemed Grand Cru in Burgundy’s Morey-Saint-Denis village of Côte de Nuits, to take an entrepreneurial turn in the hills above the town of Beaune.
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#1304132021-09-14
Why eradicating moderate poverty could accelerate climate change
No country has eradicated poverty; all countries still have work to do. The UN goal to eradicate extreme poverty is vital, while each country's domestic policies to tackle extreme poverty are important for stability – but what of those living in moderate poverty? What makes these people worthy o ...
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#1304142021-09-14
'Climate Change Single Greatest Challenge Of Our Era': UNHRC Chief
UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said at the opening session of the 48th Human Rights Council that climate crisis is the single greatest challenge to human rights in the present era. She urged global economies to concentrate on the rebuilding of a "greener post-pandemic world." Bac ...
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#1303582021-09-13
Climate change: Animals 'shape-shifting' in response to global warming crisis, study says
Larger ears, bulkier beaks and longer wings - climate change is causing numerous species to "shape-shift" and adapt to the world's warming temperatures, a study claims.
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#1303612021-09-13
The climate clock is ticking fast
Most agree that urgent action needs to be taken to tackle the growing crisis caused by climate change. That is why leaders from 196 countries are meeting in Glasgow in November for a major climate conference, called COP26. But adaptation to climate change also comes at a price – writes Nikolay B ...
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#1303712021-09-13
Climate change could trigger migration of 216 million people, World Bank warns
Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050, the World Bank said in a new report on Monday.
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#1303732021-09-13
Climate Change Is Making India’s West Coast More Vulnerable to Cyclones
A new study found significant increases in the intensity, frequency, and duration of cyclonic storms over the Arabian Sea. Is the west coast prepared?
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#1303802021-09-13
Heatwave model shows it is hotter in more places more often
New modeling shows that heatwaves across Europe have increased in both frequency and spatial extent over the past century. Using a 100-year observational dataset and the latest techniques for modeling climate extremes has revealed the evolving dynamics of heatwaves across Europe under the influe ...
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#1303812021-09-13
Why cities around Wisconsin are feeling the heat
While Wisconsin may be known for its "frozen tundra," an increase in hot, humid summer days is bringing attention to Wisconsin's urban heat islands and their impact on human health.