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#1298422021-08-09
This is the do-or-die decade for climate change, world scientists warn
Time’s up, according to the world’s scientists who have just issued their starkest warning yet with the release of a climate science report for the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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#1298432021-08-09
Climate change: Not too late to save the planet if emissions are reduced now towards climate neutrality
In a new report released today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
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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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#1297712021-07-29
‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
At Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border, the water line has dropped to a historic low, taking a heavy toll on the local industry. Chaos erupted at Bill West’s business in Page, Arizona, last week when he was forced to tell dozens of paid clients their summer vacations were either canceled or o ...
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#1297722021-07-29
Urbanism "is one of the best tools we have" in the fight against climate change
The shift to remote working from suburbs and the countryside due to the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to a huge rise in carbon emissions, according to Taylor Francis of decarbonisation platform Watershed.
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#1297752021-07-29
Climate crisis cuts Australian farm profits by a quarter over past 20 years
Seasonal changes linked to the climate crisis have reduced annual average farm profits by 23% - or about $29,000 per farm - over the past 20 years, according to the federal government’s agricultural research agency.
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#1297812021-07-29
UK already undergoing disruptive climate change
The UK is already undergoing disruptive climate change with increased rainfall, sunshine and temperatures, according to scientists. The year 2020 was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on record, scientists said in the latest UK State of the Climate report.
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#1298022021-07-29
Climate change melts Mt Kilimanjaro
In East Africa, the snows that normally blanket Mt Kilimanjaro throughout the year are rapidly disappearing. For people and wildlife living near Africa’s tallest mountain, that’s causing a host of unexpected and increasingly unlivable changes.
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#1297382021-07-28
Climate change and biodiversity loss: Two sides of the same coin call for a concerted strategy
The Jacobin cuckoo was spotted by birders in Mumbai early in June. Yes, the rains followed. Farmers have relied on the arrival of this bird as a signal for sowing their paddy, as it is known to herald the monsoon in India.
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#1297432021-07-28
Utilizing space to fight climate change on Earth
The world faces critical challenges. Just this year we have seen blackouts in Texas caused by extreme cold (and now extreme heat); evidence of earlier bird migrations in North America; and studies showing that a third of heat-related deaths between 1991 and 2018 can be linked to human-caused glo ...
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#1297552021-07-28
Africa: Protecting Plants Will Protect People and the Planet
Back-to-back droughts followed by plagues of locusts have pushed over a million people in southern Madagascar to the brink of starvation in recent months. In the worst famine in half a century, villagers have sold their possessions and are eating the locusts, raw cactus fruits, and wild leaves t ...
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#1297612021-07-28
Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens
The global economy's business-as-usual approach to climate change has seen Earth's "vital signs" deteriorate to record levels, an influential group of scientists said Wednesday, warning that several climate tipping points were now imminent.
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#1297662021-07-28
Exploring the Dramatic Shift in Ice Age Duration
Scientists are still seeking an explanation for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition when ice ages became longer in duration and exploring what it may mean for future climate change.
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#1297672021-07-28
The UN Security Council and Climate Change
At the outset of the Security Council’s 23 February 2021 open debate on climate and security, world-renowned naturalist David Attenborough delivered a video message urging global cooperation to tackle the climate crisis.
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#1297682021-07-28
Here’s What Climate Change Will Mean for Bats
The Isabelline Serotine bat (Eptesicus isabellinus) ranges across areas north of the Sahara and into the southern portion of the Iberian Peninsula. But it may be time for the species to start packing its bags.
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#1297702021-07-28
Where there's smoke, there's reason to talk climate change, says Laurier chemistry professor
It takes more than water to fight forest fires and wildfires — it also takes conversations, policies and knowledge, says Canadian researcher Hind Al-Abadleh. There are the obvious health concerns when smoke from wildfires can be seen and smelled in Waterloo region and other parts of southern Ont ...
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#1296912021-07-27
Sunscreen on Grapes? This Crop Is the Climate Change Canary in the Coal Mine
As anyone who’s visited any wine country, whether in Northern California, the Pacific Northwest, France or elsewhere knows, the various microclimates in these regions are crucial for the production of some of the most popular wine varietals on the market. Climate change is already affecting some ...
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#1296922021-07-27
Lake Powell hits lowest level on record in climate change-fueled water crisis
Plagued by climate change-fueled drought and increasing demand for water, Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to its lowest level on record since it was first filled more than 50 years ago.
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#1296932021-07-27
Extreme weather renews focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts
As scientists gather online to finalize a long-awaited update on global climate research, recent extreme weather events across the globe highlight the need for more research on how it will play out, especially locally.
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#1296942021-07-27
Why mangroves are vital to combat climate change (and how the Dominican Republic fights to conserve them)
Imagine a forest. You probably visualize a lush green jungle. Maybe a park of giant sequoias. Or you may be imagining a pine grove with tall trees against the blue sky. But there is a type of saltwater flooded forests and mudflats, with strange trees that are home to swarms of mosquitoes that we ...
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#1297132021-07-27
Germany’s floods foreshadow climate catastrophe, experts say: 3 stories you may have missed
Record levels of rainfall pummeled Germany and Belgium last week, triggering devastating floods that claimed more than 125 lives. According to experts, climate change exacerbated these deadly storms, causing them to last longer and produce more rain. As global temperatures rise, warmer air holds ...
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#1297242021-07-27
The floods show London is now on the frontline of the climate emergency
Too often, we in the UK have thought of countries such as India and Bangladesh as being on the frontlines of the climate crisis. But the serious flooding in London over the weekend and in the last month – coupled with the extreme weather we’ve seen in other parts of the UK over recent years – sh ...
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#1297282021-07-27
Can you eat to save the climate?
With the food system responsible for a third of overall global CO2 emissions, attention on climate beneficial foods has been slowly but steadily increasing. According to IFIC’s 2020 Food and Health Survey, 6 in 10 consumers in the US say it is important that the food products they purchase or co ...
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#1297292021-07-27
Climate change, conflict are driving world hunger, inequality: UN chief
Climate change and conflict are “both drivers and consequences” of poverty, United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday.
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#1297302021-07-27
Floods in Europe, Turkey, China and India
The residents of Erfurt in Thuringia, where Martin Luther lived and studied, had never seen anything like it. The main street became a raging river washing away parked cars and anything else besides that emerged from flooded first floors.
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#1297362021-07-27
Uganda Steps Up Use of Clean Technology to Mitigate Climate Change
When it comes to climate change, Uganda has been doing one thing right, and that is maintaining a small carbon footprint. According to the information from Our World in Data, 2017 statistics stood at 0.12 tonnes per capita.
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#1296662021-07-26
The Great Barrier Reef is a victim of climate change – but it could be part of the solution
We are fast approaching unstoppable climate change. If we don’t take drastic action to cut our global greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November, our children and grandchildren will pay dearly for this failure.
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#1296702021-07-26
Why Is the Weather So Weird? Its Climate Change
All these calamities are part of a constellation of extreme weather events that paint a picture of a world that's already warmed 1.2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times. There's no doubt it will get warmer.
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#1296712021-07-26
How the North is doing when it comes to Canada's climate targets
The North accounts for a "very small fraction" of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions, but a new climate change report says the territories should still be setting more ambitious reduction targets.
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#1296722021-07-26
Our bodies can adapt to hotter conditions — but there’s a limit
This summer’s Olympic Games could be the warmest in decades. Tokyo, where the Games will be held, may see dangerously high temperatures, in excess of 90 degrees.
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#1296742021-07-26
Can Arctic Animals Keep Up With Climate Change? Scientists are Trying to Find Out
New studies suggest that rising temperatures may prove disastrous for species of birds, fish and other animals that are adapted to the cold of Arctic climes.
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#1296762021-07-26
A round-up of India's worst climate change events in 2021
Swathes of India are battling deadly floods and landslides after heavy monsoon rains, just the latest example of how the vast country is on the frontline of climate change. In the first seven months of this year alone the impoverished nation of 1.3 billion people has experienced two cyclones, a ...
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#1296892021-07-26
Climate change report ‘critical’ for success of fall COP26 summit: UN
Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale.
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#1296352021-07-23
Yukon’s complexity requires a new approach for climate change and disaster response: expert
Yukon’s a complicated place, and that complexity may inhibit disaster response and climate change preparedness, according to Christopher Alcantara, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario.
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#1296362021-07-23
‘No sport can escape’: Tackling climate change at the Tokyo Olympics
No sport can escape the impacts of a changing climate. Less snow and ice, higher temperatures, and extreme weather events such as storms and heatwaves, all affect competitors and spectators alike.
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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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#1296382021-07-23
Climate change impact is getting bigger
The extreme climate events in Europe, North America and China in the last two months have not left any doubt about the fact that the earth is well into the time of climate change. The time for evidence is well past and now we are witnessing manifestations of climate change on scales that are get ...
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#1296512021-07-23
The physics of climate change was described in the 1800s by scientist Eunice Foote
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today's climate change crisis.
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#1296532021-07-23
Climate cataclysms set stage for key UN science report
On the heels of jaw-dropping heat and flooding across three continents, nearly 200 nations gather Monday to validate a critical UN climate science report 100 days ahead of a political summit charged with keeping Earth liveable.
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#1296632021-07-23
Met office to look into link between recent floods and climate change
The KNMI meteorological office is taking part in an international research project to determine if the recent heavy rainfall and floods in Limburg, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg are linked to climate change.
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#1296062021-07-22
High temperatures to destroy plants, animals in Tana River basin — report
Many species within the Tana River basin will not survive the rise in global temperatures, a study suggests. A researcher from the University of East Anglia in the UK published the study in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.
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#1296212021-07-22
Climate change is here — not on its way
From heatwaves and wildfires in North America to catastrophic flooding in Germany and China, the world over, climate scientists' predictions are being horribly realized. We hear from Californians on the frontline of drought, a disaster expert helps us understand climate risk, and a young Ugandan ...
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#1296222021-07-22
A 3°C world has no safe place
In 1745, as the river Liffey, having broken its banks, clawed at the foundations of the house in which he sat, the young Edmund Burke experienced a strange, perverse thrill. The man who would go on to found modern conservatism drew inspiration from this experience in a later essay on the sublime ...
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#1296232021-07-22
How food prices are affected by oil, trade agreements and climate change
Concerns about inflation rates have risen as the UK economy begins its much-needed recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The Consumer Prices Index, the measure most commonly used to measure inflation, rose by 2.5% in June 2021, the highest level for three years.
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#1296332021-07-22
s climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what researchers had imagined would occur later this century.
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#1295702021-07-21
Climate change and recent flooding: What you need to know
The wild weather in the Buller and Marlborough regions last weekend resulted in the third major flooding event in New Zealand this year. Questions are being asked about "one-in-100-year" events that seem to be happening more and more often. But climate scientists have been warning about how clim ...
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#1295712021-07-21
Egyptian city loses mango crop to climate change
Farmer Khaled Hussein waited eagerly for the mango harvest to start so he could pluck them from his dozens of mango trees on his five-acre farm. The mango harvest season starts in the city in June and comes to an end in September or October. Come the harvest season, however, there were no mangoe ...
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#1295722021-07-21
Catastrophic floods could hit Europe far more often, study finds
Catastrophic floods such as those that struck Europe recently could become much more frequent as a result of global heating, researchers say. High-resolution computer models suggest that slow-moving storms could become 14 times more common over land by the end of the century in a worst-case scen ...
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#1295732021-07-21
Top US scientist on melting glaciers: ‘I’ve gone from being an ecologist to a coroner’
Diana Six’s love of the outdoors began before she could form words, run, or collect the bugs and fungi that were precious to her as a child. A tough home life eventually led her to drop out of school and live on the streets. But biology classes in community college helped Six discover her callin ...
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#1295862021-07-21
Climate change spares no country, poor or rich, says Amitav Ghosh
Nations need to wake up to the reality that climate change will affect everyone — and not in some far-off fictional future, says the New York-based Indian author.