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#1303352021-09-09
Ancient sea ice core sheds light on modern climate change
A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.
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#1303372021-09-09
La Nina climate cycle may reemerge in 2021: UN
The weather phenomenon La Nina could resurface before the end of 2021, after petering out four months ago, the UN said Thursday, predicting above-average temperatures despite its generally cooling influence.
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#1303382021-09-09
Ancient cave deposits reveal our climate future
As natural climate archives, the deposits found in caves can play an important role in our ability to understand—and predict—climate change.
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#1303392021-09-09
Tropical crops could suffer as climate change brings longer dry spells
Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
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#1303402021-09-09
How climate change contributed to Madagascar's food crisis
The U.N. has announced that Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world's first "climate change famine". Tens of thousands of people are suffering "catastrophic" levels of hunger. Climate hazard scientist, Chris Funk, provides insights into the causes.
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#1303432021-09-09
Climate change fuels clashes in Cameroon that force thousands to flee
Under normal circumstances, small boats criss-cross the Logone River, which marks the border between Cameroon and Chad, in both directions. But over the past three weeks, 11,000 Cameroonians, 98 per cent of them women and children, have taken a one-way trip to Chad.
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#1303442021-09-09
Tropical Climate Change Is a Puzzle—Could Aerosols Be a Piece?
The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean hasn’t warmed as much as climate change models projected. A new study shows that aerosols in the atmosphere could be responsible.
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#1302992021-09-07
Climate crisis could double frequency of extreme regional summer droughts in Europe
The ongoing climate crisis has already had drastic global impacts. For example, droughts have become critical high-impact hydro-meteorological hazards worldwide. In Europe, the consequences of the climate crisis have been severe, with droughts having caused considerable social, economic, and env ...
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#1303002021-09-07
Economic cost of climate change could be six times higher than previously thought
Economic models of climate change may have substantially underestimated the costs of continued warming, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.
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#1303152021-09-07
New Zealand records warmest winter ever as scientists blame climate change
The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and scientists say that climate change is driving temperatures ever higher.
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#1303162021-09-07
Climate crisis in North East India: Why are rainfall patterns changing?
The climate of North East India is changing: Rainfall patterns over the region in the last century have considerably changed, resulting in its overall drying up. The India Meteorological Department September forecast stated that normal to below-normal rainfall was most likely to continue over ma ...
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#1303182021-09-07
As the Climate Changes, Where Are the Safest Places to Live?
Talent. King Mountain. Hugo. The town names — each the site of new wildfire ignitions following a lightning storm the day before — are all new to me. After I read each incident report, I head to Google maps to ask the same question that’s been on my mind for weeks: How close?
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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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#1303232021-09-07
Christian leaders unite to issue stark warning over climate crisis
Global Christian leaders have joined forces to warn that the world is facing a critical moment as the climate crisis threatens the future of the planet.
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#1303242021-09-07
Climate change: Dragonflies spread north in warming world
Dragonflies are moving northwards across Britain and Ireland as temperatures rise. More than 40% of species have increased their distribution since 1970, while only about 10% have declined, according to a new report.
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#1302612021-09-03
Warming Arctic linked to polar vortex outbreaks farther south.
Warmer air weakens the vortex, which normally keeps cold air trapped in Arctic, letting it go south. Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes other parts of the Northern Hemisphere in killer cold, ...
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#1302862021-09-03
Deadlines may be effective in building support for climate change action
Human-caused climate change—including increased extreme weather and climate events—is here, according to the recently released United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021 report, but the best way to communicate the concern is still debated.
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#1302212021-09-02
Uphill battle: Spain's wine growers adapt to climate change
For over a century, Joaquin Gay de Montella Estany's family produced wine in Spain's Mediterranean region of Catalonia but the effects of climate change have pushed them to seek higher ground.
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#1302242021-09-02
Gulf Stream collapse? Climate change is set to weaken the ocean currents that keep Scotland warm – Dr Richard Dixon
The record was beaten by a considerable margin and all of five of Europe’s hottest years have been since 2014. The picture was not the uniform across Europe though. Western Europe was warmer than average but central and eastern Europe were much warmer, with, for instance Russia 2.9C above the lo ...
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#1302302021-09-02
How the “Best Accidental Climate Treaty” Stopped Runaway Climate Change
The international treaty that phased out the production of ozone-depleting chemicals has prevented between 0.65°C and 1°C of global warming, according to research.
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#1302312021-09-02
Climate change: Big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades
The number of weather-related disasters to hit the world has increased five-fold over the past 50 years, says the World Meteorological Organization.However, the number of deaths because of the greater number of storms, floods and droughts has fallen sharply.
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#1302482021-09-02
This isn't a preview of cataclysmic climate change. It's the actual show
At least 14 people are dead and scores more hurt, stranded, and desperate in the Tri-State region after the remnants of Hurricane Ida thrashed the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday night, bringing the floods and devastation Ida unleashed in Louisiana earlier this week to yet another major metropolitan area.
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#1302512021-09-02
How Can You Overcome Climate Dread?
This summer has, to put it bluntly, sucked. Intense, climate-driven disasters across the world have killed hundreds of people and caused billions in damage seemingly every week. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released last month sounded one of the bleakest alarms on climate ...
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#1302522021-09-02
Deadly flash floods show how vulnerable New York’s infrastructure is to climate change
Hurricane Ida’s remnants, which triggered flash floods that killed at least 22 people in New York and New Jersey on Wednesday night, exposed vulnerabilities in New York City’s infrastructure to the kind of extreme weather being generated by climate change.
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#1302532021-09-02
Gnarly NYC storm footage shows record, climate-charged rains
Heavier, more extreme deluges are one of the most well-understood consequences of Earth's warming climate. New York City and other Northeastern regions received a powerful dose of intense, often record-setting rains on Sept. 1 from remnants of the storm (and former hurricane) Ida. The resulting ...
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#1302552021-09-02
Storms and fires will not bring an escape from America’s stuck climate politics
Reading his local newspaper last month, Bruce, a 70-year-old retired executive, could take it no longer. “Almost every article” on Nola.com—website of the Times-Picayune, New Orleans’s paper of record since 1837—had “an element of Wokeism”, he wrote in an email cancelling his subscription. Among ...
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#1302562021-09-02
Can climate change influence earthquake activity?
For thousands of years humans have tried to connect earthquake activity to a certain weather event, a scenario referred to as earthquake weather.
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#1302572021-09-02
Jordan's water crisis deepens as climate changes, population grows
At a private underground well in Amman, Imad Suleiman waits for hours to pump water into the container on his truck that he then sells on to private customers in the sprawling city of four million.
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#1302582021-09-02
‘We are moving into uncharted territory with climate change’: scientist
Hurricane Ida’s remnants, which killed dozens of people and triggered flash floods across the tri-state area, marked the latest extreme weather event in a summer filled with climate-related disasters.
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#1301762021-09-01
The unlikely protector against Bangladesh's rising seas
The humble oyster has proven remarkably effective in protecting one of Bangladesh's most vulnerable islands from fast-rising seas. Nothing could have prepared Mohammed Shah Nawaz Chowdhury for the sobering reality of Kutubdia Island. .
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#1301892021-09-01
UN: Weather disasters soar in numbers, cost, but deaths fall
Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports.
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#1301972021-09-01
Climate Change: Developing Countries Account for Over 90% Deaths Due to Extreme Conditions, Says WMO
More than 91 per cent of these deaths occurred in developing countries (using the United Nations country classification). Of the top 10 disasters, the hazards that led to the largest human losses during the period have been droughts (6,50,000 deaths), storms (5,77,232 deaths), floods (58 700 dea ...
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#1301982021-09-01
Hurricane Ida aftermath: Here's how climate change is making hurricanes more devastating
Hurricane Ida is the kind of natural disaster that brings terror to people who have lived through deadly storms. Seeing Ida's maximum sustained winds topping 150 mph, torrential rainfall that overflows waterways and makes roadways impassable and storm surge so powerful it could destroy entire co ...
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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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#1302152021-09-01
Climate Change a 'Child Rights Crisis,' UNICEF Says
Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer. Teacher. Artist. Astronaut. These are just a few of the most common careers to which kids aspire. At the rate things on Earth are going, however, there’s just one thing that millions of children are destined to become: climate refugees
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#1302162021-09-01
Christine Lagarde on how to address COVID-19, climate change and inequality
The following is a discussion between Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. It was featured by TIME on 1 September as part of the TIME 100 Talks programs.
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#1301542021-08-31
Lake sediments show link between climate change and bushfires in Aussie Alps
A small lake just five kilometers from the peak of Mount Kosciuszko has given scientists the best indication yet of the link between rising temperatures, loss of native plant species and more frequent fires in the Snowy Mountains.
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#1301642021-08-31
How Hood River watershed can become more resilient to climate change
Hood River, long an agricultural center for Oregon, faces an uncertain future of climate impacts, but a new Portland State University study lays out strategies that the watershed can adapt to become more resilient to the inevitable changes.
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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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#1300982021-08-24
North America’s very wet weekend bears the fingerprints of climate change
Between Tropical Storm Henri, Hurricane Grace, and torrential downpours in Tennessee, it was a bad weather weekend for people living on the eastern side of North America
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#1300992021-08-24
If we ignore climate change, it will be hell on outdoor workers
As temperatures in the Pacific Northwest soared above 110 F in late June, workers in Oregon flooded the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Division with safety complaints.
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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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#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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#1301022021-08-24
Climate change: Europe’s extreme rains made more likely by humans
Heavy rain as intense as the downpours behind the recent deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium has been made up to nine times more likely by climate change and up to 19% more intense, BBC News reports, covering a new “rapid attribution” study from the “World Weather Attribution” group of resear ...
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#1301032021-08-24
Feature: Bringing the world together on climate change
For the past three decades, the international community has been increasingly aware of the seriousness of climate change and its potential impact on human populations. Since then, global efforts have been made to tackle this escalating issue – from the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 to the Paris Climate ...
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#1301042021-08-24
‘Cool pavements’ could cool cities and mitigate climate change
Cities around the world continue to warm and it isn’t just because of a changing climate. Massive volumes of concrete built into large blocks of buildings trap the heat generated by the sun, to which heavy traffic on roads adds yet more heat.
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#1301132021-08-24
Landmark Arctic fisheries agreement enters into force
In June, the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement entered into force, bringing to fruition a diplomatic effort that began more than a decade ago.
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#1301182021-08-24
Restoration of nature has a direct role to play in tackling climate change - Isobel Mercer
As the world attempts to emerge from the pandemic, many countries are grappling with rising temperatures and more extreme weather. From catastrophic floods, to extreme heatwaves and wildfires, every day brings more news to remind us that the climate crisis is already here and having a devastatin ...
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#1301312021-08-24
The Human Threat to Biodiversity
Global warming, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels are the images most often evoked when we think of the terms ‘climate change’ or ‘climate disaster’. However, arguably one of the more overlooked consequences of human activity on the environment is the impact on biodiversity.
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#1301352021-08-24
Feathers flying: why cockatoos and rainbow lorikeets have gone to war
The housing market in most parts of Australia is notoriously competitive. You might be surprised to learn we humans are not the only ones facing such difficulties. With spring rapidly approaching, and perhaps a little earlier due to climate change, many birds are currently on the hunt for the be ...