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#1298762021-08-10
IPCC Report: Climate change is happening here and now
Climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne contributed to the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As she highlights here, the new report clearly demonstrates that we can't afford to lose any more time when it comes to climate change.
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#1298772021-08-10
Climate-vulnerable island nations call on world to save 'our very future'
Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save "our very future" after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten their existence.
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#1298802021-08-10
Climate change could force us to rethink sporting calendars
The effects of climate change will force sports bodies to rethink their calendar of events, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Sunday.
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#1298812021-08-10
‘Code red’: United Nations scientists warn of worsening global warming
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a code red for humanity.
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#1298822021-08-10
Net Zero: Canada and the world reacts to UN climate change report
In response to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report, world leaders and officials reiterated their countries’ current climate change commitments, while acknowledging the need for urgent action.
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#1298832021-08-10
Feeling anxious about climate change after the IPCC report? Here's what you can do to help
Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest - and starkest - paper outlining the severity of the climate crisis.
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#1298842021-08-10
Yes, the climate crisis is terrifying. But I refuse to abandon hope
Babe, look!” my wife said excitedly, as we sprawled on the grass reading on one baking hot afternoon. She passed me her book: “Read this – this person is just like you!”
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#1298852021-08-10
Not convinced that humans are causing climate change? Here are the facts.
Earth is ever shifting. Continents drift, ice ages come and go, odd and wonderful creatures take shape only to one day vanish. Reviewing the history of our world, some might be tempted to dismiss the warming we are experiencing as just another of these planetary ebbs and flows.
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#1298132021-08-09
Climate scientists reach 'unequivocal' consensus on human-made warming in landmark report
An epochal new report from the world's top climate scientists warns that the planet will warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next two decades without drastic moves to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution. The finding from the United Nations-backed group throws a key goal of the Paris Agreement into ...
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#1298152021-08-09
'Nowhere to run': UN report says global warming nears limits
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a "code red for humanity."
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#1298162021-08-09
Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions, but the technology remains a powerful tool
The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the release, debate has erupted about the computer models at the very heart of global climate projections.
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#1298172021-08-09
IPCC says limiting any global warming is what matters most
Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit in the early 2030s.
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#1298182021-08-09
Unless we act now, a hotter, drier and more dangerous future awaits
Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen for thousands of years and may warm by 4℃ or more this century, according to a highly anticipated report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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#1298192021-08-09
Rising seas and melting glaciers are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down
After three years of writing and two weeks of virtual negotiations to approve the final wording, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that changes are happening in Earth's climate across every continent and every ocean.
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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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#1298212021-08-09
The water cycle is intensifying as the climate warms, more intense storms and flooding as a result
The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died in the destruction. In North America, the West was battling fires amid an intense drought that i ...
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#1298222021-08-09
'Not too late' to prevent 'runaway climate change': EU
There is still time to prevent "runaway climate change" but only if the world implements carbon net zero policies, the EU's vice president in charge of climate action said Monday.
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#1298232021-08-09
Global climate report: 'Wake-up call for all governments to take climate change seriously'
Climate change is already widespread, rapid, and intensifying, according to a new report released today by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), involving contributions from UCL academics.
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#1298242021-08-09
No good news here: Key IPCC findings on climate change
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and that humanity is almost entirely to blame.
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#1298292021-08-09
IPCC report says climate change puts “billions of people in danger”
The IPCC report, which took eight years to compile, finds that human activity is definitely responsible for climate change – putting “billions of people in danger”, according to UN chief António Guterres
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#1298342021-08-09
Sea level rises, other changes irreversible, UN warns
The world's largest ever report into climate change is published, setting out the stark reality of the state of the planet. The study, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says it is "unequivocal" that human activity is responsible for global warming
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#1298352021-08-09
Climate change: Six everyday things you can do to help stop global warming
The United Nations has warned the planet will reach its global warming limit within the next 20 years, causing irreversible environmental damage and more extreme weather events.
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#1298362021-08-09
Extreme weather: How it is connected to climate change?
Heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires - this summer people are having to confront the link between extreme weather and climate change. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have been trapping heat in the atmosphere since the start of the industrial era. As a consequence, average temperatur ...
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#1298372021-08-09
UN sounds alarm on 'irreversible' climate impacts, but offers hope
The UN climate panel sounded a dire warning Monday, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming — and that humans are "unequivocally" to blame. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries, scientists w ...
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#1298382021-08-09
What Infrastructure Investors Need To Know About The Latest Climate Change Report
The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out, and it’s not pretty: “Climate change [impacts are] widespread, rapid, and intensifying.”
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#1298392021-08-09
The Sprout: United Nations report sounds climate change alarm
A new report from the United Nations is warning some climate change effects may be irreversible and scientists say humans are unequivocally responsible for the warming climate. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the report was issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is the f ...
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#1298402021-08-09
U.N. releases blistering assessment on the state of climate change
Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are "unprecedented" in thousands of years — and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of years — according to a blistering report released Monday by the United Nations.
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#1298412021-08-09
The devastating new UN report on climate change, explained
How much has humanity already changed the climate? And how much worse will it get? The answers now are sharper than ever, according to an international team of scientists. In a new report, they say that far more aggressive action is needed to limit catastrophic climate change, and that time is r ...
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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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#6158Human Settlements Climate Action Pathway Built Environment Launch event
29 July 2021, Virtual, Bonn, Germany
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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 ...