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#125683
2020-11-13

'We packed long underwear and never wore it': Arctic scientists shocked at warming

When the Arctic researchers Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper made their annual scientific pilgrimage to frigid seas off Alaska last month, what they found was startling.

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#119019
2018-12-13

'We're running out of time': Canada under pressure to step up at global climate conference

The Canadian government is under intense pressure to fill a leadership void as countries try to hammer out how they will hold themselves accountable for implementing the Paris climate-change accord.

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#125366
2020-05-01

'What can I realistically do about climate change?'

I was born in 1988, which apparently makes me an older millennial. My question is, what changes can I make and realistically recommend to contribute to fighting climate change? I already vote conscientiously, I’ve moved closer to my office — reducing my commute. I can’t afford a new electric car ...

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#124921
2020-03-30

'Why have carbon dioxide levels risen and fallen in the past?'

This is not the column I planned to publish this month. I wrote another one several weeks ago in answer to a reader’s question about tourism in Europe. As you might imagine, that column was swiftly rendered out of date, becoming nothing more than a time capsule of life before COVID-19 became a g ...

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#122106
2019-09-04

'Wonder plant' will tackle climate change, conservationists say

Acres of underwater seagrass meadows are to be restored off the Welsh coast to tackle climate change.

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#125721
2020-11-17

1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions – study

Frequent-flying “‘super emitters” who represent just 1% of the world’s population caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions in 2018, according to a study. Airlines produced a billion tonnes of CO2 and benefited from a $100bn (£75bn) subsidy by not paying for the climate damage they caused, the ...

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#124395
2020-02-26

10 common myths about climate change — and what science really says

If you've ever engaged in a discussion about climate change, in person or online, you've probably encountered some arguments about what the science says. Some of those claims may sound logical but are actually misleading or inaccurate.

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#123130
2019-11-26

10 things to know about the Emissions Gap 2019

The annual United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) flagship Emissions Gap Report is now online. But what is this report really about? And why should you care? Keep reading to find out more.

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#129637
2021-07-23

100 days to Cop26: protesters urge Boris Johnson to take climate talks seriously

Protesters will fill London’s Parliament Square on Friday morning, calling on the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to make the climate crisis his top priority, as the UK prepares to host UN talks that will determine whether the world tips into environmental catastrophe this decade.

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#128156
2021-04-21

101 Nobel laureates call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to help tackle the climate crisis.

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#122876
2019-11-06

11,000 scientists warn: climate change isn’t just about temperature

Exactly 40 years ago, a small group of scientists met at the world’s first climate conference in Geneva. They raised the alarm about unnerving climate trends. Today, more than 11,000 scientists have co-signed a letter in the journal BioScience, calling for urgently necessary action on climate.

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#124036
2020-01-30

2,000 years of Earth's climate in one simple chart – and the copycat that isn't what it seems

What were global temperatures the year Jesus was born, during the 12th century when Genghis Khan ruled the Mongol Empire, and in 1503 when Leonardo da Vinci started painting the Mona Lisa — and how do they compare with temperatures in our modern world? There's now a chart for that.

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#128378
2021-04-30

2.9 million reasons to plan for climate change

Climate change is already costing Minnesotans. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is asking the state legislature for $2.9 million in funding over the next two years to help cities and other local governments develop infrastructure plans for the ongoing effects of climate change.

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#119142
2018-12-20

2018 - the hottest La Niña year ever recorded

Once the final official global annual surface temperature is published, 2018 will be the hottest La Niña year on record, by a wide margin. It will be the fourth-hottest year overall, and the fourth consecutive year more than 1°C (1.8°F) hotter than temperatures in the late-1800s, when reliable m ...

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#119309
2019-01-09

2018 Global Disasters Cost $160 Billion; Climate Change a Factor, Report Says

Disasters cost the world a hefty $160 billion in 2018 and climate change was a factor in the final tally, a new report says.

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#119264
2019-01-07

2018 was 4th warmest year on record, EU climate change report finds

Last year was the fourth warmest on record, extending a scorching streak driven by a buildup of man-made greenhouse gases, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Monday.

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#123562
2019-12-20

2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate

2019 may go down in history as Year Zero of the climate apocalypse. The tsunami of extreme events has been so relentless that each is quickly forgotten in favour of its successor.

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#124029
2020-01-30

2020 marks a turning point for nature’s role in climate solutions

Global biodiversity talks in China this year will highlight nature-based solutions that could meet one-third of Paris Agreement climate goal by 2030.

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#123812
2020-01-20

2020 may be ‘last opportunity’ to limit warming to 1.5°C

While it’s unfair to describe the Madrid climate change conference in December as a complete failure, there is no sugar-coating the reality that it achieved much, much less than what the people and planet need to avoid catastrophic climate change this century.

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#126648
2021-01-15

2020 was Earth's second-hottest year, just behind 2016

It's official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA scientists.

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#132602
2022-01-19

2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: WMO

Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on ...

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#132390
2022-01-11

2021 was the fifth-hottest year on record as emissions surge

The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Union scientists have said.

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#132153
2021-12-13

2021: highlights from the BirdLife Europe and Central Asia year

It has been a deeply challenging year. The pandemic has continued to cause enormous suffering while floods and fires across our continent this summer showed that climate crisis is biting hard

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#132233
2021-12-20

2021: when the link between the climate and biodiversity crises became clear

If there was ever any doubt about the inextricable link between the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis, those doubts were well and truly dispelled in 2021.

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#127220
2021-02-19

3 Things People Get Wrong About The Polar Vortex And Climate Change

I was interviewed by several media outlets this week about the extreme cold that plunged into the United States. The events, particularly in Texas, were tragic and deserved the coverage. As a weather - climate expert often called upon by the media, I could not help but notice three things that c ...

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#120765
2019-04-15

3 ways to combat climate change according to young activists

Young people have a lot more life to live, but if we don't address climate change, the planet they live on will look nothing like it does today. The good news is, a number of young people are putting up a fight.

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#124787
2020-03-20

3 ways to put water onto the climate agenda

This year, World Water Day is focused on the interconnectedness of water and climate change. Water is the primary resource affected by climate change, with repercussions on the supply of drinking water, sanitation, and water used for food and energy production. Or in other words, as suggested by ...

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#126690
2021-01-26

3,000 scientists call for governments and businesses to 'step up' adaptation to climate change

More than 3,000 scientists have called for a far bigger global push to protect people and nature from the effects of a heating planet, even as researchers estimated funding to adapt to climate change has dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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#133317
2022-02-17

4 questions to ask yourself before engaging in any climate work

Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s most vulnerable people. To address this, we need a justice-oriented worldview that places empowerment, protection and equity at the forefront.

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#134824
2022-06-02

4 reasons why CISOs can’t ignore climate change

Climate change may not be an issue synonymous with cybersecurity, but there is a growing need for the security sector to recognize and address the impact a changing climate is having.

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#121668
2019-07-23

40 years ago, scientists predicted climate change. And hey, they were right

This month the world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon.

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#134478
2022-05-16

49 degrees in Delhi, flash floods in some region. Experts warn of climate change

Climate change has been peeking round the corner, when several countries took some steps to counter the damage done. However, experts have only warned that several parts on earth will only continue to reel under severe heatwave conditions as maximum temperatures continue to soar.

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#135488
2022-07-27

5 Genius African Solutions Fighting Climate Change & Protecting the Environment

Nothing can top the resilience of Africa’s people; in the face of adversity, Africa responds with boundless creativity designed to benefit an entire region, or better, the entire continent. This is true of many situations — but for right now, we’re going to look at how it rings true for the cont ...

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#124680
2020-03-16

5 charts projecting the cost of climate change by 2100

As the planet continues to heat up, a growing body of academic research shows that rising temperatures will have profound effects on the global economy.

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#129917
2021-08-13

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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#132156
2021-12-13

5 reasons why COP26 should finally mark a turning point for forests, food and climate

No longer the ‘forgotten solution’, nature appeared prominently in the final text of the Glasgow Climate Pact, the agreement reached at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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#133033
2022-02-09

5 reasons why eating insects could reduce climate change

We've been conditioned to think of animals and plants as our primary sources of proteins, namely meat, dairy and eggs or tofu, beans and nuts, but there's an unsung category of sustainable and nutritious protein that has yet to widely catch on: insects.

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#123046
2019-11-18

5 things to know about fighting climate change by planting trees

The idea seemed so catchy, simple and can-do. There’s room to plant enough trees, albeit many, many, many trees, to counter a big chunk of the planet-warming carbon spewed by human activities.

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#129820
2021-08-09

5 things to know about the new UN report on climate change

The U.N.-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a new report Monday summarizing the latest authoritative scientific information about global warming. Here are five important takeaways.

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#129934
2021-08-13

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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#124336
2020-02-24

52nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

I am honoured to address you today at the 52nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) because the IPCC has been, without a doubt, an incredible, positive scientific force in laying out the scale and consequences of climate change and what we must to do lessen the threat ...

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#120481
2019-03-25

6 Myths About Climate Change Debunked

Climate change can seem like a far-off distant problem. The reality, though, is that climate change is affecting us today. It’s doing this by taking many of the risks we already face naturally—floods and storms, heat and drought—and supersizing or exacerbating them. And the more carbon we produc ...

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#134337
2022-05-10

6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world

Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change.

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#119603
2019-01-25

6 things we learned about the environment at Davos 2019

Even before Davos started, the scene was set for environmental issues to take centre stage. The Global Risks Report 2019 declared that humanity was ‘sleepwalking its way to catastrophe’ as extreme weather, failure to act on climate change, and natural disasters topped the list.

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#122415
2019-09-27

600 Years of Grape Harvests Document 20th Century Climate Change

A 664-year record of grape harvest dates from Burgundy, France, reveals significantly warmer temperatures since 1988.Climate change isn’t just captured by thermometers—grapes can also do the trick.

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#129849
2021-08-09

7 steps you can take now to help avert the worst climate change consequences

Monday's release of the latest grim assessment from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear that global warming will continue to intensify over the coming decades and that, as a result of human inaction to curb greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather events wil ...

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#121792
2019-08-02

7 things you'd never imagine climate change could impact

The climate is changing and it's causing some odd things to happen – like changing the sex of a baby animal.

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#131233
2021-10-28

78% of People Globally Fear Damage to Earth Amid Worsening Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Survey

Roughly 78% of people worldwide are concerned about human-caused damage to our planet with the climate and biodiversity crisis, according to the most comprehensive global values survey to date tracking attitudes about climate change and the environment.

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#121000
2019-05-09

8 European nations urge EU to ramp up climate change fight

May 8 (UPI) -- The leaders of eight European countries are calling for the European Union to take stronger action to fight climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a net-zero level within three decades.

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#132636
2022-01-19

8 Ways to Make Tackling Climate Change Your Top Priority in 2022

If 2021 was the wake up call, then 2022 is the year of taking the urgent action needed to combat climate change. The past year has been rife with alarming extreme weather events and rapidly changing weather patterns that have brought urgent action to tackle climate change to the top of the world ...

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