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#1350712022-06-28
Climate change role clear in many extreme events but social factors also key, study finds
Climate change is to blame for the majority of the heatwaves being recorded around the planet but the relation to other extreme events and their impacts on society is less clear, according to a study.
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#1350922022-06-28
Increasing heat waves affect up to half a billion people
Climate change is a reality and extremely high temperatures have been reported by India and Pakistan in the spring. In a new scientific journal article, researchers from the University of Gothenburg, amongst others, paint a gloomy picture for the rest of the century.
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#1350522022-06-23
My Beautiful, Diverse Home Is Sinking Because of Climate Change. Here’s What I’m Doing About It.
Indonesia is one of the countries most at risk of the impacts of climate change. A 2004 report by the World Wildlife Fund showed that the country's annual temperatures had increased and that precipitation patterns had changed — noting a decline in rainfall in some regions and an increase in others.
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#1350382022-06-22
Why the planet needs legally binding obligations to limit climate-mitigation 'free-riders'
The causes and effects of climate change are global – carbon emissions anywhere in the world endanger people everywhere. As a result, since 1979, climate and weather extremes have caused 2 million deaths and mounting economic losses. Additionally, in the future, climate change is expected to cau ...
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#1350402022-06-22
Scientists investigate 'snow blood' phenomenon, climate change links
Have you ever seen red snow, like the crystals themselves are bleeding? Then you might have seen algae known as "snow blood," a phenomenon that accelerates Alpine thaw and that scientists worry is spreading.
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#1350412022-06-22
Here's how one group of polar bears is adapting to climate change
Rising temperatures are melting the Arctic sea-ice on which polar bears hunt, limiting their access to food. A recent study has found a remote population of polar bears that have adapted to hunt on chunks of glacier ice.
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#1350422022-06-22
Climate Change: The New Abnormal
Humans have a tendency to believe everything will be pretty much the same in the future as it has been in the past. No surprise since generally speaking that was pretty true in the past and while things changed, they did not change so radically or with such severe consequences as they are now.
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#1350432022-06-22
Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings
Scientists say that climate change was likely to have made the rains that unleashed catastrophic flooding across Bangladesh worse. While South Asia's monsoon rains follow natural atmospheric patterns, the rains will become more erratic and torrential as global temperatures continue to climb, sci ...
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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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#1350452022-06-22
This scientist wants you to send him dead mosquitoes in the post
Most people won’t thank you for posting them a dead mosquito. But for Canadian scientist Dan Peach, each squished mozzie is another valuable data point in his quest to find out how far the insects are travelling as a result of climate change.
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#1349602022-06-14
Spain and southern France hit by second extreme heat event of year
A second extreme heat event of the year is searing Spain and southern France, with temperatures hitting highs not normally recorded until July or August and experts warning summer heatwaves are happening earlier and more often.
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#1349612022-06-14
India takes tough stand at climate talks as Delhi endures brutal heatwave
Throughout the day Virender Sharma splashes water from a bucket on to the sheet he has pulled over his lilies, tuberoses, carnations and gerberas in an attempt to protect them from the hot, dry wind sweeping through Delhi.
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#1349642022-06-14
Search for clues as bodies of hundreds of little blue penguins wash ashore in New Zealand
The penguins lie in orderly, evenly spaced rows, wings splayed, their trademark glossy blue plumage dulled by sand. There are 183 in all, carefully collected by local people, laid out and photographed for later investigation.
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#1349732022-06-14
Oceans are getting warmer - but what were their temperatures 100 years ago?
Annual average temperatures of the oceans’ surfaces have been diverging from the 20th century (1900-1999) average more and more since the 1980s. In 2021, global ocean surface temperatures were 0.65 degrees Celsius higher than that century’s average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmosphe ...
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#1349752022-06-14
Mothers bear brunt of climate change in Pakistan
In Pakistan, temperatures have hit a record-breaking 51 degrees Celsius. People are struggling to breathe, smothered by an unprecedented heatwave. It's one of the most alarming consequences of global warming.
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#1349962022-06-14
How heat damages the DNA of endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens
Endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens – tiny but striking Australian songbirds – could be at even greater risk from global heating after a study found that exposure to hot and dry conditions damages nestlings’ DNA.
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#1349982022-06-14
'We beg God for water': Chilean lake turns to desert, sounding climate change alarm
The Penuelas reservoir in central Chile was until twenty years ago the main source of water for the city of Valparaiso, holding enough water for 38,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. Water for only two pools now remains.
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#1349132022-06-08
Report: Philanthropy can help protect against climate change:
Philanthropists could help ease the damage from climate change by donating more money to address global warming and the communities most at risk from it, according to a report that the research organization Candid released Wednesday.
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#1349142022-06-08
Study pinpoints coastal wetlands capable of surviving climate change--with human help
Climate Central today announced the publication of a new peer-reviewed study and interactive mapping tool showing American coastal wetlands' resilience to climate change. The maps incorporate the study's findings to reveal precise locations where wetlands might survive rising seas either by migr ...
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#1349182022-06-08
New Zealand farmers propose paying for emissions to tackle climate change
Farming leaders in New Zealand have recommended that the government impose a price on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, as the rural sector comes under significant political pressure over its disproportionate contribution to climate change.
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#1348742022-06-07
Singapore's dengue emergency is a climate change warning sign
Singapore says it is facing a dengue "emergency" as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has come unusually early this year.
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#1348762022-06-07
Water, Wildfire, and Climate Change
Fires across the West are threatening water supplies for millions of people—particularly in areas hard hit by climate change, like California.
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#1348772022-06-07
Talk Africa: Seychelles facing climate change
Located around 1,600 kilometers off the coast of East Africa, the Seychelles is an ecological paradise. But as climate change is affecting every region around the world, small island developing states are among the most vulnerable to the impacts such as increased temperatures and sea level rise.
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#1348782022-06-07
https://africa.cgtn.com/2022/06/07/talk-africa-seychelles-facing-climate-change/
Solar panels need to be deployed over vast areas worldwide to decarbonize electricity. By 2050, the United States might need up to 61,000 square kilometres of solar panels — an area larger than the Netherlands1. Land-scarce nations such as Japan and South Korea might have to devote 5% of their l ...
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#1348832022-06-07
The world's 1.5°C climate goal is slipping out of reach - so now what?
For almost a year, climate scientists have sounded one clear message. The world’s totemic goal of holding average global temperature rises to 1.5°C is still technically within our grasp, but will slip without a dramatic course correction by humanity.
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#1348842022-06-07
UN climate chief says 'much more is needed' to combat global warming
Nations must not lose hope and focus in tackling global warming despite the many obstacles to international co-operation, the UN climate chief said on Monday at the start of a 10-day meeting in Bonn, Germany.
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#1348852022-06-07
Climate change causing Britain to shrink with some coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea
Scientists welcome "honest conversation" about the long standing threat of sea level rise driven by climate change, warning coastal protection measures cannot save all communities, even if the Environment Agency could afford them everywhere.
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#1348962022-06-07
Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?
After epic floods in India, South Africa, Germany, New York and Canada killed hundreds in the past year, droughts are now parching landscapes and wilting crops across the western US, the Horn of Africa and Iraq.
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#1348992022-06-07
Climate crisis could make humans shrink in size, says fossil expert
The climate crisis may lead the human race to shrink in size, as mammals with smaller frames appear better able to deal with rising global temperatures, a leading fossil expert has said.
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#1349002022-06-07
A huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down—if it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.
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#1348212022-06-02
For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses
At the end of February this year, the world’s governments signed on to a statement that was startling in its strength and clarity. “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and planetary health,” reads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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#1348222022-06-02
Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce
It got really, really hot early last summer in California’s Central Valley. For days, temperatures spiked above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, well over the 30-year average.
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#1348232022-06-02
Urban climate changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: integration of urban-building-energy model with social big data
The changes in human behaviour associated with the spread of COVID-19 infections have changed the urban environment. However, little is known about the extent to which they have changed the urban climate, especially in air temperature (T), anthropogenic heat emission (QF) and electricity consump ...
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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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#1348252022-06-02
he UN Climate Change reconvenes next week in Bonn: what will be discussed?
The midyear UN climate conference “56th session of the Subsidiary Bodies” will take place from 6 to 16 June 2022, in Bonn. These sessions focus on means of implementation and policy requirements in preparation of the COP in November. This triangulation is hoped to act as a catalyst to ensure no ...
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#1348262022-06-02
IIT Madras urges countries to absorb people fleeing due to climate change
With climate change intensifying the push to migrate, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Thursday urged countries to absorb all asylum seekers.
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#1348282022-06-02
Link between climate change and mental health
Dr. Susan Clayton, a Psychology Professor at The College of Wooster, shares how climate change can negatively impact mental health.
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#1348312022-06-02
Climate Change Could Completely Consume the Siberian Tundra by 2050, Studies Show
As we know, the Arctic tundra won't be around much longer. Climate change is causing the sea levels to rise, and the ice to melt, which is also, in turn, wiping out the plant and animal species that live there. And unfortunately things aren't much different in Siberia.
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#1348462022-06-02
Climate change: 30 years on from Rio Earth Summit, did it actually achieve anything? – Dr Richard Dixon
Thirty years ago tomorrow, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development opened in Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 200 countries met for 11 days and four international agreements were signed. But has it made any difference?
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#1348682022-06-02
Climate change is turning the European Alps from white to green
Snow in the European Alps is melting and invasive plant species are outcompeting native Alpine plants, satellite imagery has shown. Both findings will reinforce climate change, say scientists.
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#1348692022-06-02
How climate change affects wheat and corn yields
More than half the world's food supply relies on just three types of grain: maize, wheat and rice. But supplies are tight - and not just due to the war in Ukraine. Models show that climate change is affecting harvests - and far more than previously thought.
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#1348702022-06-02
‘Vicious cycle’: Storms intensify in the Gulf as climate changes
Ecologically disastrous conditions in the Gulf are the latest sign of the dangers that climate change and other related factors pose to the Middle East.
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#1348712022-06-02
The ethics of tinkering with the earth's atmosphere to tackle climate change
Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups — one of scientists and one of former world leaders — are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
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#1348072022-06-01
We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist
The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned.
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#1347682022-05-31
Rainfall across Europe disrupted by climate change
A new study has for the first time shown that human induced greenhouse gas emissions are directly responsible for the long term trends of drying in the Mediterranean and increasing rainfall over the rest of Europe during winter.
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#1347712022-05-31
At least 91 dead in Brazil floods and landslides with many more missing
The death toll from floods in north-eastern Brazil could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing.
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#1347972022-05-31
What's the oldest tree on Earth—and will it survive climate change?
Thousands of feet above the Nevada desert, in a part of Great Basin National Park that tourists rarely see, park ecologist Gretchen Baker neared the top of Mount Washington and raised her binoculars. There just below, sprouting directly from the limestone, grew some of the oldest living things o ...
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#1347392022-05-27
More Damaging Than Previously Thought: Glaciers Might Not Be Able To Recover From Climate Change
A group of researchers from Stockholm University and the University of California, Irvine investigated whether the Petermann Ice Shelf in northern Greenland might recover from a future breakup caused by climate change. They employed a complex computer model to predict the ice shelf’s potential r ...
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#1347402022-05-27
Ancient Pollen Offers Clues to How Plants Adapted to Climate Change in the Past — and Potentially the Future
Each spring, many of us become hyper-aware of pollen. The dust-like substance, which plants release in bulk as they reproduce, is little more than a nuisance to many people as it irritates eyes and noses and coats cars in a light green powder.
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#1347412022-05-27
The Climate Conversation We One Day Hope to Have
Climate change has been momentarily defeated. Our species' extinction has been temporarily put on hold, as nations realize they have no choice but to confront the disease that is climate change.