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#1216962019-07-25
Climate change may lead to more fungal infections, study says
Scary new life-threatening fungal infections could soon menace mankind, thanks to climate change, a new report argues.
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#1294192021-06-21
Climate change may lead to more landfalling tropical cyclones in China
Tropical cyclones (TCs) can bring strong wind, heavy rain and storm surge. Meteorologists are concerned that the effects of global warming may change how these storms impact humans.
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#1210802019-05-16
Climate change may make hurricanes and cyclones deadlier, study finds
Weeks after the deadly cyclone Idai tore through Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the human toll is still being tallied.
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#1210692019-05-15
Climate change may make trees live fast and die young
Everyone from governments to oil companies is looking at tree-planting as a way to counter global warming, but this strategy could be less effective than we thought.
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#1351362022-06-29
Climate change may spark conflict in Africa
Scientists have found interesting details about how climate change plays a role in likelihood and duration of conflict on the African continent. The likelihood and duration of armed conflict in Africa can be impacted by climate change, a new study suggests.
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#1215592019-07-12
Climate change may thin high-altitude clouds and trigger more warming
The climate may be more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we thought. That’s because in a warmer world high-altitude clouds may become thinner, causing them to reflect less sunlight back into space.
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#1209322019-05-03
Climate change may turn octopuses partially blind from lack of oxygen
Marine animals temporarily lose the ability to see when they enter water that is low in oxygen. The finding suggests the animals may struggle in the coming decades, as climate change is causing low-oxygen zones in the ocean to spread.
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#1228012019-10-30
Climate change means military can expect more African distress calls: Defence
Climate change is expected to play havoc with already fragile African countries, prompting more calls for help from the Canadian military, warns an internal Defence Department analysis.
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#1206812019-04-09
Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear
Around 95 per cent of glaciers in the Alps will be wiped out by the end of the century if the world continues pumping out carbon emissions at the current rate. That is the stark warning from research using a more realistic way of modelling how ice will react to rising temperatures due to climate ...
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#1224852019-10-02
Climate change means wild weather. Does that include snowstorms?
If it seems like just last week that summer ended, you are correct — so why does the first day of October look like the dead of winter in the Northern Rockies? Over the weekend, Montana Governor Steve Bullock issued a state of emergency after an unusually intense “winter” storm dropped 48 inches ...
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#1298022021-07-29
Climate change melts Mt Kilimanjaro
In East Africa, the snows that normally blanket Mt Kilimanjaro throughout the year are rapidly disappearing. For people and wildlife living near Africa’s tallest mountain, that’s causing a host of unexpected and increasingly unlivable changes.
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#1317382021-11-16
Climate change might mean several of Indonesia's small islands have no future
As the world's largest archipelagic country, Indonesia should be showing more concern about the impact of climate change on small islands.
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#1199832019-02-18
Climate change must be a priority for world leaders
Experts in climate change and global security threats have long seen climate change as a future risk factor. Today, however, it is clear that climate change poses an immediate security threat to countries around the world. It is no longer a “someday” threat; it is a “right now” threat.
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#1267592021-01-29
Climate change needs real change - scientist
A major report examining how the country should fight climate change is due out on Sunday, sparking calls for change.The Climate Change Commission's Draft Advice will be published this weekend. Wellington climate change scientist Dave Frame hopes it will recommend altering the methods used by go ...
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#1204052019-03-18
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West – affecting birds that use these wetlands for breeding, migration and wintering.
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#1234442019-12-13
Climate change novels allow us to imagine possible futures: Read these crucial seven
Every day brings fresh and ever more alarming news about the state of the global environment. To speak of mere "climate change" is inadequate now, for we are in a "climate emergency". It seems as though we are tripping over more tipping points than we knew existed.
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#1207462019-04-12
Climate change now a fact of life in Atlantic Canada fishery
Canada's fisheries minister says the impacts of climate change are a fact of life that will have to be factored in the management of Canada's multi-billion dollar seafood industry."That variable of climate change is new and it's a new variable we didn't have to account for in the past. We're goi ...
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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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#1327512022-01-27
Climate change one day at a time - in pictures
Blipfoto members, or ‘blippers’, choose to record a single photo from their day. This unique community of photographers enjoy recording life as they see it. Perspectives on climate are often presented as ad hoc events so it’s not often we get to see a global perspective of public opinion and per ...
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#1197972019-02-06
Climate change or “just the weather?” Here’s how to answer that
Every once in a while, a day comes along to remind you that weather is more than a trusty source of social lubrication for awkward elevator encounters. Severe weather can threaten property, homes, and even lives. If a statistically rare weather event happens to you rather than someone else, abst ...
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#1203222019-03-12
Climate change poses risk to Australia's financial stability, warns RBA deputy governor
A deputy governor of Australia’s central bank has issued a stark warning that climate change poses risks to financial stability, noting that warming needs to be thought of by policymakers and business as a trend and not a cyclical event.
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#1206682019-04-08
Climate change poses security risks, according to decades of intelligence reports
A series of authoritative governmental and nongovernmental analyses over more than three decades lays a strong foundation for concern over climate change implications for national security.
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#1203212019-03-12
Climate change protests to be staged across Ireland on Friday
More than 21 protest events are to be staged across the country on Friday coinciding with school strikes for action on climate change, which will be attended by thousands of pupils, according to some of the organisers.
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#1231732019-11-29
Climate change protests: Marches worldwide ahead of UN talks
As part of a fresh round of global climate protests, demonstrations are taking place in over 500 German cities — from Aachen to Zwickau.
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#1225342019-10-04
Climate change pushes Italy beekeepers to the brink
Unusual weather driven by climate change is wreaking havoc on bee populations, including in northern Italy where the pollinating insects crucial to food production are struggling to survive.
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#1196752019-01-30
Climate change pushing eels in Europe towards extinction, study shows
Climate change is likely to push Europe’s critically endangered eels even closer to extinction, a new study have revealed.Populations have been in freefall for decades due to a combination of overfishing, pollution and dams being constructed along rivers, blocking their traditional migration routes.
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#1343392022-05-10
Climate change pushing pine beauty moth northward in Finland 50 years ahead of predictions
Climate change is causing the pine pest Panolis flammea, or pine beauty moth, to shift its range northward 50 years ahead of predictions, according to a new study
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#1266942021-01-26
Climate change puts pressure on failing Caribbean water supplies
Noreen Nunez lives in a middle-class neighborhood that rises up a hillside in Trinidad's Tunapuna-Piarco region. Accessed by a long, winding road bordered by trees, the houses, built in the 1970s and 1980s, are mainly painted in pastel shades. Dotted among fruit trees in their sizeable backyards ...
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#1342032022-04-27
Climate change putting 4% of global GDP at risk, new study estimates
Climate change could see 4% of global annual economic output lost by 2050 and hit many poorer parts of the world disproportionately hard, a new study of 135 countries has estimated.
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#1204062019-03-18
Climate change putting entire North Atlantic ecosystem at risk, says oceans conference organizer
It's hard to look at the future of the North Atlantic without acknowledging the dramatic impact climate change will have on the ecosystem, says one of the organizers of a weekend conference on the issue.
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#1284272021-05-05
Climate change rarely factored into Atlantic Canada’s fisheries management, report finds
A new report shows climate change is rarely factored into management decisions made for fisheries in Atlantic Canada and the eastern Arctic.
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#1264072020-12-22
Climate change ravages Kashmir's 'red gold' saffron crop
On sweeping fields once blanketed in lush purple, a thin and bedraggled crop of flowers is all farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir's saffron-growing region Pampore have to show for this year's harvest.
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#1227452019-10-25
Climate change reinforces the world's inequalities
Climate change exacerbates inequalities, not only in poor, developing countries, but also in industrialized, wealthy ones. The poor should be given special importance when planning, experts say.
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#1296892021-07-26
Climate change report ‘critical’ for success of fall COP26 summit: UN
Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale.
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#1334312022-02-22
Climate change reports on ‘thought/think’ pieces
For these late winter days, here are five especially interesting, provocative, and well-written pieces about climate change – what writers and editors call “thought” or “think” pieces.
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#1346082022-05-19
Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches
One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found ...
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#1284342021-05-05
Climate change risk is complex: here is a way to assess it
A key feature of climate change is that it doesn’t pose one single risk. Rather, it presents multiple, interacting risks that can compound and cascade. Importantly, responses to climate change can also affect risk.
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#1350712022-06-28
Climate change role clear in many extreme events but social factors also key, study finds
Climate change is to blame for the majority of the heatwaves being recorded around the planet but the relation to other extreme events and their impacts on society is less clear, according to a study.
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#1200102019-02-19
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
The scientist Wallace Smith Broecker, who raised early alarms about climate change and popularised the term “global warming”, has died was 87.
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#1295862021-07-21
Climate change spares no country, poor or rich, says Amitav Ghosh
Nations need to wake up to the reality that climate change will affect everyone — and not in some far-off fictional future, says the New York-based Indian author.
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#1342972022-05-05
Climate change sparks displacement in Peru’s Amazonas, as families could be made homeless three times in six months
Families in Peru's Amazonas region are at risk of being displaced for a third time in six months as climate change intensifies the impact of disasters, leaving children without quality education or security about their future, Save the Children said.
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#1261572020-12-10
Climate change spurring frog extinctions: conservationists
Three Central American frog species have gone extinct and many others may soon follow as their populations are ravaged by a fungus that is spreading faster because of climate change, conservationists said Thursday.
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#1208072019-04-17
Climate change targets are slipping out of reach
For all the commentary around a transition to a clean energy system, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is still continuing to rise rapidly and shows no sign of slowing down.
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#1272622021-02-22
Climate change the world's greatest security threat says Christian Aid ahead of UN Security Council
Climate change the world's greatest security threat says Christian Aid ahead of UN Security Council."Climate change is becoming the world's most serious security threat so it's good to see the Security Council putting the issue front and centre.
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#1316582021-11-15
Climate change threatening Canada’s permafrost
There’s another piece to the climate change puzzle that Canadians must confront. Few countries in the world have permafrost, but Canada has four million square kilometres of it. And that big melt is releasing carbon that has been locked away for centuries. Not only that – life is being disrupted ...
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#1327092022-01-25
Climate change threatening buried UK treasures
Climate change is threatening to destroy treasures buried in the UK as the soils that protect them dry out. A Roman toilet seat, the world's oldest boxing glove, and the oldest handwritten letter by a woman are some of the extraordinary objects discovered in at-risk British peatlands.
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#1198002019-02-06
Climate change threatening underwater forests: Study
Climate change could lead to decline of underwater kelp forests by impacting their microbiome, according to a study.In humans, it has been observed that changes in the microbes in the gut can result in poor health, said researchers at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Institute of Marine S ...
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#1260782020-12-08
Climate change threatens 'most Alps glaciers'
Up to 92% of glaciers in the Alps could be lost by the end of the century due to climate change, say researchers.The mountain range's 4,000 glaciers include popular skiing resorts such as Zermatt in Switzerland and Tignes in France. The findings by Aberystwyth University suggest those ski resort ...
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#1210792019-05-16
Climate change threatens 26 native species in Great Dividing Range, study finds
Australian researchers say governments must step up and protect critical habitats to give wildlife a chance
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#1236172020-01-09
Climate change threatens Afghanistan's crumbling heritage
After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat: climate change.