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#1322122021-12-17
Climate change, poor housing fuelling energy concerns for First Nations communities
More than 90 per cent of households surveyed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory had their electricity disconnected over a 12-month period, according to a new study investigating the link between the problem and extreme temperatures.
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#1328342022-02-01
Climate change, unhealthy soil, trees aid thrips attack at Muthalamada
Climate change, soil deterioration, unhealthy trees and excessive use of pesticides have been found to be key factors contributing to the devastating thrips attack that has threatened to decimate the season’s yield from the mango orchards of Muthalamada in Palakkad district.
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#1227622019-10-28
Climate change, urbanization has made us abandon pastoralism, Maasai elders say
For close to two decades, Lazzaro Ole Saibulu was actively involved in the livestock trade across the Kenyan and Tanzanian border. In his heyday, the 52-year-old was also a revered owner of over 200 goats and 120 head of cattle that besides guaranteeing him a steady income also propped up his hi ...
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#1273562021-02-25
Climate change-driven snowmelt in Alps triggers abrupt seasonal change
Spring snowmelt in the Alps is occurring earlier in the year due to climate change and as a result triggering abrupt deviations in mountain ecosystems. These changes could negatively affect the functioning of these valuable ecosystems.
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#1263552020-12-18
Climate change-led migration in India could treble by 2050: Report
Over 62 million South Asian people may have to migrate from their homes due to slow onset climate disasters such as sea-level rise, water stress, crop yield reductions, ecosystem loss and drought by 2050, according to a new report by Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) and Action Aid Inter ...
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#1245172020-03-04
Climate change-related rain to push up insurance costs
Weather-related hazards have already cost the EQC $450 million in (inflation adjusted) payouts since the year 2000.New research by Jacob Pastor-Paz, Ilan Noy, Isabelle Sin, Abha Sood, David Fleming-Munoz, and Sally Owen has found that climate change, and the expected increase in intensity and fr ...
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#1258632020-11-25
Climate change. Facts and figures behind mankind’s greatest challenge
It’s real, it’s happening and it’s caused by human activity. Climate change has already started showing its effects around the world. From extreme weather to rising sea levels, climate change is already upon us — and there’s an overwhelming body of scientific evidence demonstrating it.
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#1311042021-10-22
Climate change: 'More homegrown timber needed' to cut emissions
Building the homes of the future will require Wales to become a "forest nation", according to industry experts. They said much more homegrown timber is needed to cut carbon emissions from construction, and would also lead to greener homes and jobs in rural areas.
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#1342022022-04-27
Climate change: 'Nature bounces back when given a chance,' Planet CEO says
As climate change increasingly disrupts complicated earth systems in unprecedented ways, one company hopes to use high-resolution satellite imaging to better understand how the planet is changing.
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#1216772019-07-23
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
Do you remember the good old days when we had "12 years to save the planet"?
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#1252372020-04-22
Climate change: 2019 was Europe's warmest year on record
Europe is heating faster than the global average as new data indicates that last year was the warmest on record. While globally the year was the second warmest, a series of heatwaves helped push the region to a new high mark. Over the past five years, global temperatures were, on average, just o ...
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#1259552020-12-01
Climate change: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record
The Earth continued to endure a period of significant heating in 2020 according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Its provisional assessment suggests this year will be one of the three hottest, just behind 2016 and 2019. The warmest six years in global records dating back to 1850 h ...
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#1348462022-06-02
Climate change: 30 years on from Rio Earth Summit, did it actually achieve anything? – Dr Richard Dixon
Thirty years ago tomorrow, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development opened in Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 200 countries met for 11 days and four international agreements were signed. But has it made any difference?
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#1261842020-12-11
Climate change: 700-year history of wind recorded in island mud
Scientists have reconstructed a 700-year history of how westerly winds have blown around the Southern Hemisphere. It's a remarkable record that's written in the muds at the bottom of a small lake on the remote Marion Island in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean.
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#1339142022-04-01
Climate change: A look at some extreme temperatures recorded worldwide
The World Meteorological Organisation has declared 2021 as one of the seven warmest years on record. The story so far: In March, parts of eastern Antarctica recorded extremely high temperatures that were around 30 degrees Celsius above normal, sounding alarm bells for rapidly progressing climate ...
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#1246662020-03-13
Climate change: A major global threat
The climate change, that is, the change of the global climate and in particular the changes in meteorological conditions that extend on a large time scale, is a major global existential threat, much larger than the Corona Virus.
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#1282982021-04-28
Climate change: A small green rock's warning about our future
It's an unassuming rock, greenish in colour, and just over 4cm in its longest dimension. And yet this little piece of sandstone holds important clues to all our futures.It was recovered from muds in the deep ocean, far off the coast of modern-day West Antarctica.
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#1233692019-12-10
Climate change: Amazon oil boom under fire at UN talks
A report presented at COP25 says that plans are in place for a huge expansion of oil drilling in the upper Amazon. The analysis says that Ecuador and Peru are set to sanction oil extraction across an area of forest the size of Italy.
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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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#1231082019-11-25
Climate change: Another year of record gas emissions, warns UN meteorological agency
Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide – have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.
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#1189972018-12-12
Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half
The population of wild reindeer, or caribou, in the Arctic has crashed by more than half in the last two decades. A new report on the impact of climate change in the Arctic revealed that numbers fell from almost 5 million to around 2.1 million animals.
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#1352252022-07-05
Climate change: Australia floods, with staggering 1.5 metres of rain in 24 hours, are a warning sign we cannot ignore – Scotsman comment
Four months after New South Wales was hit by a “once-in-a-thousand-year” flood that killed 20 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, torrential rain has brought “life-threatening” flooding to Australia once again.
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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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#1220422019-08-29
Climate change: Big lifestyle changes 'needed to cut emissions'
People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government's chief environment scientist has warned.
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#1229522019-11-11
Climate change: British Airways reviews 'fuel-tankering' over climate concerns
British Airways has launched a review into a money-saving practice which increases its greenhouse gas emissions. It follows a BBC investigation exposing "fuel tankering" by airlines - in which planes are filled with extra fuel, usually to avoid paying higher prices for refuelling at destination ...
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#1201022019-02-26
Climate change: CO2 emissions fall in 18 countries with strong policies, study finds
In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers suggest that countries that are turning to renewable energy sources and moving away from fossil fuels are making progress in reducing CO2 emissions.
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#1232052019-12-02
Climate change: COP25 island nation in 'fight to death'
The president of an island nation on the frontline of climate change says it is in a "fight to the death" after freak waves inundated the capital. Powerful swells averaging 5m (16ft) washed across the capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, last week.
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#1257782020-11-19
Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?
Are you the type of person who always says thank-you? Well, if it's by email, you should stop, according to UK officials looking at ways to save the environment.
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#1280362021-04-14
Climate change: Cattle burp issue on rise
Massive scientific efforts to tackle the impact of cattle burps on climate change has only tinkered around the edges of this major environmental problem, say Macquarie University researchers.
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#1260382020-12-07
Climate change: Children send messages on paper birds to PM
Children have written messages on 300 recycled paper birds which will be sent to UK prime minister Boris Johnson calling for action on climate change. The birds were made by pupils in schools in Eastbourne to mark the 25 year anniversary of the United Nations Children's Conference on the environ ...
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#1278362021-03-29
Climate change: Consumer pose 'growing threat' to tropical forests
Rising imports in wealthy countries of coffee, cocoa and other products are a "growing threat" to forests in tropical regions according to a new study. Research shows consumer behaviour in the UK and other rich nations is responsible for the loss of almost 4 trees per person per year.
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#1310312021-10-21
Climate change: Could Welsh farms help meet targets?
Agriculture is in a unique position to help meet climate targets, a Welsh farming union leader has said. John Davies, of NFU Cymru, said while agriculture was a source of greenhouse gases, it had a role to play by absorbing carbon and other gases.
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#1217052019-07-25
Climate change: Current warming 'unparalleled' in 2,000 years
The speed and extent of current global warming exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000 years, researchers say.
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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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#1205392019-03-27
Climate change: Drilling in 'Iceberg Alley'
It sounds a bit like sitting in the middle of the road when there's a queue of juggernauts coming straight at you.This is a little overplayed but it's kind of what an international group of scientists has just set out to do.
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#1232382019-12-03
Climate change: Drought cuts Victoria Falls to lowest level in 25 years
The president of Zambia has warned of the risk of losing natural wonders like the Victoria Falls if action isn't taken soon on climate change.
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#1345052022-05-17
Climate change: EU emissions surpass pre-pandemic levels
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, emissions in the EU dropped sharply as lockdowns brought industries to a standstill and people worked from home. Those environmental gains have now been erased, new data shows.
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#1248322020-03-25
Climate change: Earth's deepest ice canyon vulnerable to melting
East Antarctic's Denman Canyon is the deepest land gorge on Earth, reaching 3,500m below sea-level. It's also filled top to bottom with ice, which US space agency (Nasa) scientists reveal in a new report has a significant vulnerability to melting.
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#1268302021-02-03
Climate change: Earth's ice melting away at record rate
Some 28 trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994: enough to cover the entire surface of the UK to 100 metres thick.
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#1192832019-01-08
Climate change: Effect on sperm could hold key to species extinction
Since the 1980s, increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves have contributed to more deaths than any other extreme weather event. The fingerprints of extreme events and climate change are widespread in the natural world, where populations are showing stress responses.
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#1225792019-10-09
Climate change: Emperor penguin 'needs greater protection'
Antarctica's Emperor penguins could be in real difficulty come 2100 if the climate warms as expected. Experts say the birds raise their young on sea-ice and if this platform is greatly curtailed, as the models project, then it's likely to put the animals' numbers into steep decline.
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#1307372021-10-13
Climate change: England must 'adapt or die,' agency warns
England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, a governmental agency said Wednesday.
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#1269202021-02-08
Climate change: Erratic weather slows down the economy
If temperature varies strongly from day to day, the economy grows less. Through these seemingly small variations climate change may have strong effects on economic growth. This shows data analyzed by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Columbia University an ...
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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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#1190102018-12-13
Climate change: Failure to tackle warming 'suicidal'
The UN secretary-general has warned negotiators at a major meeting that failing to increase efforts on climate change would be "not only immoral but suicidal" for the planet.
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#1186662018-10-25
Climate change: Five cheap ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
As well as rapidly reducing the carbon dioxide that we humans are pumping into the atmosphere in huge amounts, recent scientific assessments of climate change have all suggested that cutting emissions alone will not be enough to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 or 2 degrees C.
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#1311662021-10-26
Climate change: Four things you can do about your carbon footprint
Tackling climate change will require world leaders to take action on a global level. But as individuals we also contribute to damaging emissions. Here are some things you can do to reduce your personal impact.
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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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#1261132020-12-09
Climate change: Global 'elite' will need to slash high-carbon lifestyles
The world's wealthiest 1% account for more than twice the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN. Their emissions gap report finds that the richest will need to rapidly cut their CO2 footprints to avoid dangerous warming this century.
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#1211162019-05-21
Climate change: Global sea level rise could be bigger than expected
Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica.