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#1256832020-11-13
'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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#1190192018-12-13
'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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#1253662020-05-01
'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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#1249212020-03-30
'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 As you might imagine, that column was swiftly rendered out of date, becoming nothing more than a time capsule of life before COVID-19 became a g ...
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#1221062019-09-04
'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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#1257212020-11-17
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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#1243952020-02-26
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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#1231302019-11-26
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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#1296372021-07-23
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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#1281562021-04-21
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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#1228762019-11-06
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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#1240362020-01-30
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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#1283782021-04-30
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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#1191422018-12-20
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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#1193092019-01-09
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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#1192642019-01-07
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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#1235622019-12-20
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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#1240292020-01-30
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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#1238122020-01-20
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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#1266482021-01-15
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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#1326022022-01-19
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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#1323902022-01-11
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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#1321532021-12-13
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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#1322332021-12-20
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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#1272202021-02-19
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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#1207652019-04-15
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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#1247872020-03-20
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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#1266902021-01-26
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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#1333172022-02-17
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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#1348242022-06-02
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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#1216682019-07-23
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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#1344782022-05-16
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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#1354882022-07-27
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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#1246802020-03-16
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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#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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#1321562021-12-13
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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#1330332022-02-09
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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#1230462019-11-18
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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#1298202021-08-09
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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#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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#1243362020-02-24
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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#1204812019-03-25
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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#1343372022-05-10
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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#1196032019-01-25
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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#1224152019-09-27
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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#1298492021-08-09
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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#1217922019-08-02
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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#1312332021-10-28
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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#1210002019-05-09
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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#1326362022-01-19
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 ...