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#1300832021-08-20
Nearly 1Bln children at 'extremely high risk' globally because of climate change: UNICEF
One in two children around the world live in conditions exposing them to the extremely harmful effects of climate change, with those in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau jeopardized the most, the UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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#1300882021-08-20
Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record
Rain has fallen on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record. Temperatures are normally well below freezing on the 3,216-metre (10,551ft) peak, and the precipitation is a stark sign of the climate crisis.
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#1300452021-08-19
Why business and government must act on the IPCC climate change report
In the race against climate change, every fraction of a degree by which the global temperature rises counts. Every country – and every business – must bring the best they have to this race with the shared goal of winning it.
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#1300462021-08-19
Climate change is driving the North Water Polynya toward collapse, study finds
The North Water Polynya, known to Inuit as Pikialasorsuaq, is an area of year-round open water wedged between Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere and Devon islands, and it’s a hotspot of biological productivity.
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#1300492021-08-19
Stung by climate change: bee colonies struggle in US
There was barely a buzz in the air as John Miller pried the lid off of a crate, one of several "bee boxes" stacked in eight neat piles beside a cattle grazing pasture outside Gackle, North Dakota.
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#1300502021-08-19
Climate Change and Bedouin Communities in the Jordan Valley
Several climate-change trends are expected to intensify throughout the West Bank in the coming years. These include uneven rainfall distribution, a decrease in natural grazing areas and vegetation cover, droughts, and extreme weather conditions.
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#1300512021-08-19
Global poor already reeling from climate change catastrophe
The United Nations' latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is undoubtedly the strongest warning yet that a failure to address the causes of climate change will be disastrous. No country or state will be spared.
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#1300522021-08-19
Malta's wine, swimming pools, gardens, ‘will all be affected by climate change’
Winemaking could be seriously compromised by Malta’s looming desertification, which would also render freshwater swimming pools unviable and change the nature of gardening, the head of the university’s Biology Department has warned.
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#1300742021-08-19
Climate change: why government failure to act isn’t the problem
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report underscored the dire state of the climate crisis, concluding that “immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions” are needed to limit global warming even to 1.5°C or 2°C.
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#1300802021-08-19
Climate future looks bleak
The climate continues to change, causing fiercer wildfires, stronger storms and displacing coastal and island communities all over the world. Dr Anjani Ganase reviews the IPCC sixth Assessment Report and looks at the slippery slope that we on small islands face. The world as we know it is changi ...
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#1300822021-08-19
Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
It might sound like a low bar, but for those who care about facts, it’s been a long wait: News coverage of climate is finally getting the science right.
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#1299952021-08-18
IPCC Report: Climate Change Is a Generational Justice Issue
The report, authored by more than 200 scientists from across the globe and based on more than 14,000 individual studies, is a comprehensive synthesis of the latest science on the changing state of our climate system. It concludes that it is “unequivocal” that climate change is being caused by hu ...
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#1299992021-08-18
Is Whiskey Evaporation Bad for the Environment? A Scottish Politician Wants to Know
Climate change is a growing threat to humanity, and the food and beverage industry certainly shares part of the blame. Agricultural machinery adds to carbon dioxide emissions. Cattle are a large source of methane. And when making Scotch, ethanol evaporates into the atmosphere which… Wait, is th ...
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#1300162021-08-18
Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants
More than half of Indonesian medicinal plant species won’t be able to grow in most of their current range by 2050 due to climate change impacts, according to a new study.
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#1300322021-08-18
Plantwatch: a climate solution is hidden in the hedgerows
Hedgerows are hugely important but often taken for granted. They are perhaps the largest semi-natural habitat in Britain, refuges for wild plants and corridors for wildlife to move through, often in barren farmland landscapes.
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#1299492021-08-16
An ancient era of global warming could hint at our scorching future
There was a time when alligators slid through weed-choked swamps near the North Pole. Some 55 million years ago—just around 10 million years after the mass extinction that killed T. rex and most of its kin—the average global temperature sat more than 20°F higher than it does today. Subtropical f ...
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#1299502021-08-16
IPCC report: Climate change and unregulated construction in the Himalayas
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) report under the sixth assessment cycle was released recently. This report of working group one is a first in the series, and two more, on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and mitigation will be out by March 2022. As expected, the revelati ...
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#1299512021-08-16
How climate change is taking a toll on livelihoods of small-scale fishers in Kerala
Erratic monsoon patterns and other disruptions by climate change are reducing number of fishing days as well as fishing stock in the waters of coastal Kerala.
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#1299542021-08-16
Expert: The world is heading toward a climate change 'tipping point'
The world is heading toward a dangerous "tipping point" in climate change and an immediate and wide-ranging cut in carbon emission will be the only way to stop it from going beyond this tipping point.
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#1299552021-08-16
Thanks to climate change, supply chain disruptions are poised to be the new normal
Dr. Thomas Goldsby, a professor of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee — Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, assigns his undergraduate student a "routine exercise" that frequently proves revelatory. Its purpose is to illustrate the complexity of the various trade routes th ...
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#1299582021-08-16
Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way
As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding. Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be m ...
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#1299742021-08-16
Climate Repair: These Three Actions Need To Be Taken To Stabilise The Planet, Asap
"Nowhere is safe.” As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back to a place of relative safety for humanity?
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#1299832021-08-16
Climate change hits sushi supply chain amid California water war
If you've eaten sushi anywhere in the U.S., chances are the rice came from California's Sacramento Valley. Fritz Durst, a sixth-generation farmer, has grown the grain and other crops there for more than four decades. But this year, amid a historic drought, Durst is planting only half as many acr ...
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#1299892021-08-16
Five ways climate change hurts women and girls
In a year that has seen a global onslaught of catastrophic heat waves, wildfires, floods and drought, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest assessment report, released last week, serves as an undeniable exclamation point. The report, by 234 authors from 66 countries citing 14,00 ...
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#1299932021-08-16
How extreme heat from climate change distorts human behavior
On a sweltering summer afternoon almost a decade ago, Meenu Tewari was visiting a weaving company in Surat in western India. Tewari, an urban planner, frequently makes such visits to understand how manufacturing companies operate. On that day, though, her tour of the factory floor left her puzzled.
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#1299162021-08-13
How scientists are preparing wheat for climate change
Above fields of wheat in northern Colorado, drones equipped with thermal imaging technology read the temperatures of swaying canopies. They’re looking for wheat plants that stay cooler than the rest — a serious advantage as the world gets warmer.
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#1299172021-08-13
5 key warnings for Cayman from the UN’s climate change report
Described as a ‘code red’ for humanity, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spells out a stark warning over the future of the planet.
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#1299182021-08-13
Paleoclimate Data Raises Alarm on Historic Nature of Climate Emergency
Searing statements in this week’s landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report are particularly alarming, considering the characteristically cautious language of science. The first consensus of the document’s 234 authors: it is “unequivocal” that humanity’s burning of fossil ...
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#1299192021-08-13
Coastal communities in east Cork living with effects of climate change
The 'Status of Ireland's Climate' report makes stark reading for the country's coastal communities. Published by the EPA, Met Éireann and the Marine Institute today, it highlights four major changes that have taken place in the country's oceans.
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#1299262021-08-13
Summer of fire: blazes burn across Mediterranean with more extreme weather forecast
Hundreds of fires are burning across the Mediterranean, displacing thousands and causing irreparable damage as human-made climate change causes record-breaking summer heatwaves.
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#1299342021-08-13
500 million measurements on the impact of climate change
It is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of South-Eastern Norway have studied how two characteristic arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming.
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#1299372021-08-13
Climate-fueled wildfires take toll on tropical Pacific isles
A metal roof sits atop the burned remains of a homestead on the once-lush slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Kea—a dormant volcano and the state's tallest peak—charred cars and motorcycles strewn about as wind-whipped sand and ash blast the scorched landscape.
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#1299412021-08-13
Africa: Climate Repair - Three Things We Must Do Now to Stabilise the Planet
"Nowhere is safe." As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back to a place of relative safety for humanity?
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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
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#1299482021-08-13
INSIGHT - If your coffee's going downhill, blame climate change
Coffee leader Brazil is turning to stronger and more bitter robusta beans, which are hardier in the heat than the delicate arabica, in a sign of how climate change is affecting global markets - and shaping our favourite flavours.
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#1298862021-08-11
How Climate Change Is Affecting World Regions
The first release from the Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been making waves simply by summarizing the brutal realities of what we know about climate change.
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#1298872021-08-11
Climate change: NASA tool showing threat of rising sea levels across the world could 'help save lives'
A new projection tool which could help "save lives and livelihoods" by showing the threat of rising sea levels anywhere in the world has been released by NASA.
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#1298882021-08-11
Chile's record-breaking drought makes climate change 'very easy' to see
A punishing, decade-long drought in Chile has gone from bad to worse due to a scorching July, a month which typically brings midwinter weather showering the capital Santiago in rain and snow.
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#1298892021-08-11
The 'tragedy of the commons' and why it is helping to scorch our planet
When it comes to 'common pool resources,' economics suggest everyone is in it for themselves. If it is hot on the upcoming Labour Day long weekend, you may decide there will be nothing better than a relaxing jaunt to the public beach.
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#1298922021-08-11
Wildfires: How are they linked to climate change?
Parts of the western US have seen record-breaking temperatures this year, which - along with severe drought conditions - have triggered a series of major wildfires.
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#1298942021-08-11
Once you understand the terrible cost of doing nothing, climate action is a bargain
Ruinous, eye-watering, crippling, stratospheric, massive. That’s the cost to the UK of beating the climate crisis, according to those who portray getting to net zero emissions as economic suicide that is being thrust on an unwilling population by posh eco-fundamentalists and zealots.
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#1298952021-08-11
There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown
Academic papers often take time to leach out into public consciousness. One that did not filter through was a study from Anglia Ruskin University that analysed “nodes of persisting complexity”, in the face of “global decomplexification event”.
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#1299142021-08-11
Why curbing methane emissions will help fight climate change
The headline of the latest pronouncement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ipcc) on the physical science of climate change is the finding that, even if the world cuts emissions by more than governments are promising, it is still “more likely than not” that Earth will be 1.5°C w ...
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#1298522021-08-10
Tuesday briefing: ‘Worst of climate change is still avoidable’
“If ever there was going to be a wake-up call to the world when it comes to climate change, this report is it. But the future is not yet written. The very worst of climate change is still avoidable.”
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#1298532021-08-10
Disaster-struck Turkey faces toll of climate change
From flash floods to forest fires, drought to "sea snot", Turkey is bearing the brunt of increasingly frequent disasters blamed on climate change, putting pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to act.
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#1298542021-08-10
The new IPCC climate change report is harrowing — but hopeful
If you have news alerts active on your phone, odds are you woke up Monday to grim tidings: The International Panel on Climate Change's latest report says the warming of our planet is "irreversible for centuries to millennia.
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#1298552021-08-10
IPCC report: Earth already feeling irreversible impacts of climate change
The evidence is unequivocal: Humans have warmed the planet, and every region on Earth is already affected by the climate crisis.
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#1298582021-08-10
Hong Kong will see more super typhoons and extreme weather if climate change isn’t brought under control
Hong Kong will suffer typhoons more destructive than Mangkhut, droughts that wreak havoc on its supply of drinking water, and intense heatwaves if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.
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#1298722021-08-10
Climate change 'double whammy' could kill off fish species
Many commonly-eaten fish could face extinction as warming oceans due to climate change increases pressure on their survival while also hampering their ability to adapt.