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#1325862022-01-18
Climate change: Global warming 'could reach 4C by end of this century' after COP26 fell short of its aims, say experts
There could be global warming of 4C by the end of this century despite pledges made at the COP26 climate summit, according to a new report.
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#1311212021-10-25
Climate change: Global-warming greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit record high
Levels of planet-heating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record highs again last year, UN scientists have warned just a week before global climate negotiations begin.
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#1221112019-09-04
Climate change: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence'
Greenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned.
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#1233102019-12-06
Climate change: Greta Thunberg mobbed at UN climate talks
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was mobbed by press and delegates as she made her first visit to UN climate talks in Madrid. Ms Thunberg joined a youth demonstration inside the conference which was quickly swamped by spectators eager to catch a glimpse of Greta.
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#1261452020-12-10
Climate change: Have countries kept their promises?
Agreed by 196 parties in the French capital in December 2015, the Paris climate deal aims to keep the rise in global temperatures this century "well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C." We look at five key countries and how well th ...
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#1214542019-07-02
Climate change: Heatwave made 'at least' five times more likely by warming
Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists.
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#1217892019-08-02
Climate change: Heatwave made up to 3C hotter by warming
The searing July heatwave that hit Europe last week was made both more likely and more intense by human-induced climate change, scientists say.
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#1204512019-03-22
Climate change: Hope in action
The climate is changing — our environment, our economy, and our health. It's time for real action: there's hope in action.Most Canadians believe climate change is happening and is caused by human behaviour, according to a 2018 survey for the Ecofiscal Commission, and 60 per cent want governments ...
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#1350442022-06-22
Climate change: How can India’s concretised, dangerously hot cities be cooled down sustainably?
Over the past month, Rani has been exhausted all the time. As the mercury has soared beyond 42 degrees Celsius in Delhi, life in her tin-roofed, poorly ventilated home made from mud and corrugated iron has made it difficult to sleep.
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#1194672019-01-17
Climate change: How could artificial photosynthesis contribute to limiting global warming?
If CO2 emissions do not fall fast enough, then CO2 will have to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming. Not only could planting new forests and biomass contribute to this, but new technologies for artificial photosynthesis as well. Physicists have estimated how much surface area ...
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#1205692019-03-29
Climate change: How green is your parcel?
It's Friday lunchtime and you've found the perfect dress for that party on Saturday night but you're stuck at your desk. No problem, because after a couple of clicks, it's in your basket and on its way to your home.
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#1215542019-07-11
Climate change: How hot cities could be in 2050
London could feel as hot as Barcelona by 2050, with Edinburgh's climate more like Paris, Leeds feeling like Melbourne and Cardiff like Montevideo.
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#1192002018-12-27
Climate change: Huge costs of warming impacts in 2018
Extreme weather events linked to climate change cost thousands of lives and caused huge damage throughout the world in 2018, say Christian Aid. The charity's report identified ten events that cost more than $1bn each, with four costing more than $7bn each.
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#1218102019-08-06
Climate change: Hungry nations add the least to global CO2
The impoverished African nation of Burundi comes top of a list of the world's most food-insecure countries says Christian Aid.
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#1335592022-02-28
Climate change: IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming
Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply "irreversible" according to the UN's latest assessment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that humans and nature are being pushed beyond their abilities to adapt,
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#1339222022-04-06
Climate change: IPCC scientists say it's 'now or never' to limit warming
UN scientists have unveiled a plan that they believe can limit the root causes of dangerous climate change. A key UN body says in a report that there must be "rapid, deep and immediate" cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
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#1223192019-09-23
Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
The signs and impacts of global warming are speeding up, the latest science on climate change, published ahead of key UN talks in New York, says. The data, compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says the five-year period from 2014 to 2019 is the warmest on record.
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#1266292021-01-15
Climate change: Impacts and way forward
As our climate continues to change, farmers struggle to grow crops, putting terrible pressure on the ability of the human to feed itself. Scientists warns that climate change could shrink the global food supply. Climate change causes erratic weather patterns and extreme temperatures. This signif ...
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#1224082019-09-27
Climate change: In the face of disaster, it's hard to be cheerful
Scott Morrison does not want children to feel "needless anxiety". How about he give them some reasons to be cheerful? When all the reputable science is screaming at us that we are facing disaster, and the government's response ranges from nonchalance to derision and outright denial, isn't anxiet ...
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#1325082022-01-14
Climate change: Inadequate governmental response is causing climate anxiety in young people
Governments around the world must protect the mental health of young people by taking action against climate change, a study from The Lancet Planetary Health has concluded.
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#1195012019-01-18
Climate change: Is nuclear power the answer?
Nuclear is good for the environment. Nuclear is bad for the environment. Both statements are true. Why is it good? Nuclear power is planned to be a key part of the UK's energy mix. The key benefit is that it helps keep the lights on while producing hardly any of the CO2 emissions that are heatin ...
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#1275832021-03-08
Climate change: Johnson meets US envoy Kerry for talks
America’s special climate change envoy John Kerry has met Prime Boris Johnson and senior UK ministers in London. Their talks come ahead of two critical summits – one in the US in April and the other in Glasgow in November.
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#1217832019-08-02
Climate change: July 'marginally' warmest month on record
A preliminary analysis of global temperature data for July suggests it may have "marginally" become the warmest month on record.
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#1192192019-01-03
Climate change: LED lights making dent in UK energy demand
Installing a single low-energy LED bulb may make a trivial contribution to cutting the carbon emissions that are overheating the planet. But if millions choose LEDs, then with a twist of the collective wrist, their efforts will make a small but significant dent in the UK's energy demand.
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#1232422019-12-03
Climate change: Last decade 'on course' to be warmest
Scientists say that average temperatures from 2010-2019 look set to make it the warmest decade on record. Provisional figures released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever.
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#1218592019-08-09
Climate change: Marine heatwaves kill coral instantly
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found.
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#1298872021-08-11
Climate change: NASA tool showing threat of rising sea levels across the world could 'help save lives'
A new projection tool which could help "save lives and livelihoods" by showing the threat of rising sea levels anywhere in the world has been released by NASA.
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#1311012021-10-22
Climate change: Nature readers say their fears are growing
As the governments of almost 200 nations prepare for a pivotal meeting on climate change, scientists have expressed their fears over global warming and lacklustre efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
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#1186172018-10-22
Climate change: Nauru's life on the frontlines
International perceptions of the Pacific Island nation of Nauru are dominated by two interrelated stories. Until the turn of the century, it was the dramatic boom and bust of Nauru's phosphate mine, and the mismanagement of its considerable wealth, that captured global attention.
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#1278432021-04-01
Climate change: Net zero targets are 'pie in the sky'
Sharp divisions between the major global emitters have emerged at a series of meetings designed to make progress on climate change. India lambasted the richer world's carbon cutting plans, calling long term net zero targets, "pie in the sky."
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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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#1187932018-11-02
Climate change: Number of UK heatwaves and ‘tropical nights’ on the rise, new Met Office report warns
Heatwaves such as the one that struck this summer are lasting twice as long as they did just 50 years ago, according to a new report from the Met Office focusing on weather extremes.
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#1187672018-11-01
Climate change: Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'
The world has seriously underestimated the amount of heat soaked up by our oceans over the past 25 years, researchers say. Their study suggests that the seas have absorbed 60% more than previously thought.
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#1237042020-01-14
Climate change: Oceans hotter than ever before, new study reveals
Ocean waters hit their highest temperature ever last year, and the rate at which they are warming is speeding up, a new study has revealed. Researchers called the new data "further proof of global warming."
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#1228782019-11-06
Climate change: Plans to double Swansea's green space
Plans to double the amount of green space in Swansea over the next decade could help the city adjust to climate change, according to the council and Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
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#1202772019-03-11
Climate change: Pledge to cut emissions from dairy farms
A dairy firm is pledging to make its operations carbon-neutral from cow to supermarket by 2050, including more than 2,000 farms in the UK. This will require "radical changes" over the coming decades, including developing new technologies, the dairy co-operative, Arla Foods, said.
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#1202622019-03-07
Climate change: Rain melting Greenland ice sheet 'even in winter'
Rain is becoming more frequent in Greenland and accelerating the melting of its ice, a new study has found. Scientists say they're "surprised" to discover rain falling even during the long Arctic winter.
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#1342372022-04-28
Climate change: Record tree losses in 2021 in northern regions
Tree cover losses in northern regions of the world were the highest on record in 2021, according to new analysis from Global Forest Watch.
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#1289482021-06-01
Climate change: Rise in Brecon Beacons landslips 'a clear warning'
Reservoirs in the Brecon Beacons are increasingly being polluted by landslides that have been described as a "dramatic" warning of climate change.
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#1222852019-09-19
Climate change: Rugby World Cup highlights injustice
Ahead of the Rugby World Cup in Japan, a report from Christian Aid highlights what they term the "climate injustice" endured by Pacific island participants.
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#1202302019-03-06
Climate change: Satellite fix safeguards Antarctic data
Europe's quarter-century-long satellite data record of ice sheet changes in the Antarctic is secure into the future. It's possible because a new spacecraft tasked with observing what's going on in the polar south is finally producing very serviceable data.
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#1210072019-05-10
Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.
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#1210222019-05-10
Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth's climate
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.
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#1223422019-09-24
Climate change: Scientists to report on ocean 'emergency' caused by warming
It will be the clearest declaration yet on how an overheating world is hammering our oceans and frozen regions. Scientists have been meeting in Monaco to finalise a report on the seas and the cryosphere.
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#1229292019-11-08
Climate change: Sea ice loss linked to spread of deadly virus
The decline in sea ice seen in the Arctic in recent decades has been linked by scientists to the spread of a deadly virus in marine mammals. Researchers found that Phocine distemper virus (PDV) had spread from animals in the North Atlantic to populations in the North Pacific.
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#1228032019-10-30
Climate change: Sea level rise to affect 'three times more people'
Millions more people will be at risk of coastal flooding from climate-driven sea-level rise later this century. That's the conclusion of new research conducted by Climate Central, a US-based non-profit news organisation.
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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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#1260522020-12-07
Climate change: Snowy UK winters could become thing of the past
Snowy winters could become a thing of the past as climate change affects the UK, Met Office analysis suggests. It is one of a series of projections about how UK's climate could change, shared with BBC Panorama. It suggests by the 2040s most of southern England could no longer see sub-zero days. ...
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#1343012022-05-05
Climate change: Spring egg-laying shifts by three weeks
"In some parts of this wood, egg-laying has shifted by three weeks," explains Dr Ella Cole of Oxford University. The softly-spoken, seasoned ornithologist is showing me around a very special field site - Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire; one of the most studied woodlands in the world.
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#1235932020-01-07
Climate change: Stop this march to the precipice
The ice caps are melting, fires are raging, sea levels are rising, biodiversity is in decline. How long will we – ordinary citizens, elected leaders, business executives and faith leaders – ignore the warning signs?