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#1247372020-03-18
8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change
As entire countries go on lockdown, factories close and international air travel grinds to a halt, the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic will likely result in a sharp drop in global carbon emissions – as has already happened in China.
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#1257792020-11-19
8 ways climate change is already impacting you
We've been warned about climate change for so long that it feels familiar, a constantly looming spectre of doom up ahead. Like taxes or laundry, it's been a problem regularly designated to Future Us while we deal with the continuing trauma of Present Us.
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#1234222019-12-12
89% Indians believe climate change has negative impact on economy
People in India are nearly twice as likely than those in the US to state that they are not confident about their local weather forecast, an IBM study said on Thursday
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#1234482019-12-13
A (sorta) good news story about a songbird and climate change
University of Manitoba researchers made a recent discovery that suggests Purple Martins, unlike other long-distance migratory songbirds, show promise of being able to adapt to climate change.
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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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#1273822021-02-26
A Better Way to Think About Climate Change and the Kids Conundrum
Few people have thought as deeply about climate change as author and activist Naomi Klein. Here she shares her ideas on the big question of whether to have children and how we might begin the monumental work of saving the planet—and maybe even one another.
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#1270792021-02-15
A Census Of Sea Slugs Is Helping Scientists To Track Climate Change
Sea slugs in the waters around Australia are being used to help researchers better understand climate change.Since 2013 the Sea Slug Census, a citizen science programme powered by volunteers, has documented observations of these gastropods along the Australian coast. It was established by Profes ...
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#1216952019-07-25
A Cloudspotters’ Guide to Climate Change
On a lost-in-time island off the coast of England, a group called the Cloud Appreciation Society gathers to look skyward and bask in the delights of nature.
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#1280212021-04-12
A Focus on Climate Change
High temperatures and blazing sunshine: while Freiburgers enjoy the hot days of summer by bathing lakes, plant life faces other challenges. What strategies do plants develop to adapt in the context of climate change? How can forests be helped to cope with climate change?
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#1283732021-04-30
A Greener Arctic Will Not Halt Climate Change
The image of the Arctic as a frozen wasteland could soon be a thing of the past thanks to climate change, with the region warming at double the rate of other areas of the planet.
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#1273372021-02-24
A Growing Shift in the Narrative about Climate Action
A keen awareness about the intersection of our ecosystem and the “accelerating destabilisation of the climate” is helping shift the narrative for climate action and can help us transition from being polluters to becoming protectors of the climate, said Marco Lambertini, Director General at the W ...
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#1213042019-06-13
A Moroccan Oasis Struggles with Climate Change
Droughts, sandstorms and flash flooding: In the southern Moroccan oasis M'Hamid El Ghizlane, the effects global warming is likely to have on the Mediterranean region can already be observed today.
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#1240622020-02-03
A New Report Reveals Climate Change Is Increasing Gender-Based Violence
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.
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#1226952019-10-21
A New Study Pinpoints With Incredible Specificity the Places Most at Risk on a Warming Planet
As many as five billion people will face hunger and a lack of clean water by 2050 as the warming climate disrupts pollination, freshwater, and coastal habitats, according to new research published last week in Science. People living in South Asia and Africa will bear the worst of it.
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#1222922019-09-19
A Planetary Computer to Avert Environmental Disaster
If environmental reports published this year were connected to an alarm system, the sound inside the United Nation's Manhattan headquarters would be deafening—we are facing a five-alarm fire. Myriad reports warned us we must take immediate action to ensure a sustainable supply of clean food, wat ...
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#1331602022-02-14
A Stocktaking of BRICS Performance in Climate Action
By 2100, global temperature rise (compared to pre-industrial levels) is expected to breach the 1.5°C limit goal determined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global emissions need to be halved over the next decade, with net-zero emissions ach ...
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#1279652021-04-07
A bird's-eye view on Labrador climate change, as drones inform on ice
From the ground, an ice highway near Rigolet looked as it always did to Eldred Allen: newly frozen over, with excited snowmobilers heading over it to their cabins, or on hunting and fishing trips.
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#1222722019-09-18
A brief guide to the impacts of climate change on food production
Food may be a universal language – but in these record-breaking hot days, so too is climate change. With July clocking in as the hottest month on Earth in recorded history and extreme weather ramping up globally, farmers are facing the brunt of climate change in croplands and pastures around the ...
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#1222392019-09-16
A brief introduction to climate change and sea-level rise
Of all the consequences of a warming world, the idea that our oceans would rise is, on its face, one of the easiest to understand – and maybe the most terrifying. We’re land animals, after all. It’s been a long, long time since we were all sea life.
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#1217842019-08-02
A dangerously hot climate, simmering political tensions: ‘This is not the summer of our youth,’ UN chief warns
Global warming and rising political tensions are dangerous and avoidable, Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Thursday, previewing the UN’s upcoming Climate Action Summit, and spotlighting geopolitical hotspots.
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#1193382019-01-11
A frozen history of climate change – in pictures
Buried deep under the Greenland ice sheet is a unique archive of life on Earth 40,000 years ago. Scientists are using this information to try to predict future changes to the planet
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#1332802022-02-16
A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops
Reliable estimates of the impacts of climate change on crop production are critical for assessing the sustainability of food systems. Global, regional, and site-specific crop simulation studies have been conducted for nearly four decades, representing valuable sources of information for climate ...
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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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#1253152020-04-29
A leading scientist's transition from climate science to solutions
Dr. Kim Cobb is an award-winning climate scientist at Georgia Tech and a lead author of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. However, over the past several years, the very climate changes she has researched have conspired to change the course of her career.
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#1203902019-03-15
A manifesto for tackling the climate change crisis
We’re the UK Student Climate Network. We’re young, we’re students and we’re calling for change. Our movement started in February when tens of thousands of young people took to the streets in towns and cities around Britain, in an unprecedented emergence of a youth climate justice movement.
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#1354762022-07-26
A moral imperative’: how southern ministers are trying to change minds about the climate crisis
Robin Blakeman, an eighth-generation West Virginian, has been a practicing minister since 2004. This May, the city where she lives flooded for the second time in nine months. Several inches of rain left roads in disarray, with cars washed out and first responders rushing to evacuate families. Th ...
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#1292832021-06-14
A more warmer globe – Climate change and oxygen level
The globe is now more than 1˚ Celsius warmer than it was before industrialisation, and it is on course to be about 3 degrees warmer.
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#1206382019-04-04
A natural solution to the climate disaster
The world faces two existential crises, developing with terrifying speed: climate breakdown and ecological breakdown. Neither is being addressed with the urgency needed to prevent our life-support systems from spiralling into collapse.
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#1207742019-04-15
A new chance for climate justice?
Demands for an unprecedented transformation of society have moved from the fringe ideas of eco-socialists to the mainstream debate in the Global North in the past year.
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#1222902019-09-19
A new roadmap for corporate climate governance
Prompted by extreme weather, calls for corporate climate action have been growing in volume and intensity – from regulators, governments, investors and youth.
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#1249472020-03-31
A place that makes you ask the questions that really matter
Visitors to Antarctica are often awed and humbled by its size, and its extreme climate. But it also caused the BBC's Justin Rowlatt to reflect on the human ability to solve problems together - and to feel hope for the future.
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#1312092021-10-27
A quick guide to climate change jargon: What experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms
As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you'll be hearing a lot of technical terms tossed around: mitigation, carbon neutral, sustainable development. The language can feel overwhelming.
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#1205312019-03-27
A reading list on women and climate change
Women face disproportionate harm from climate change, but they can also help their communities become more resilient. The challenges posed by climate change cannot be met without also addressing gender issues.
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#1247172020-03-17
A rising tide of extreme weather
Recent flooding has reinforced the urgent need to future-proof public infrastructure against growing climate risk
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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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#1329752022-02-07
A third of Americans are already facing above-average warming
More than a third of the American population is currently experiencing rapid, above-average rates of temperature increase, with 499 counties already breaching 1.5C (2.7F) of heating, a Guardian review of climate data shows.
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#1222402019-09-16
A third of Britons say climate change will lead to extinction of the human race
One in three Britons believe climate change will lead to the extinction of the human race, a poll has revealed. The YouGov survey found that 33% of British adults thought climate change would cause the end of humanity. 9% thought it was “very likely” and 24% said it was “quite likely”.
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#1339862022-04-11
A warm, dry March worsened record drought conditions
March 2022 marked the third month in a row where precipitation was below average across the contiguous U.S., which led to an expanding drought and areas of record dryness throughout the West.
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#1222912019-09-19
A warming world: The climate issue
From one year to the next, you cannot feel the difference. As the decades stack up, though, the story becomes clear. The stripes on our cover represent the world’s average temperature in every year since the mid-19th century.
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#1281352021-04-21
A whale chorus reveals how climate change may be shifting migration
Eerie wails, explosive trumpets and ghostly moans. The sounds from the underwater recorders had a story to tell, even without a single intelligible word: the whales had stayed put.
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#1198822019-02-11
A ‘mass invasion’ of polar bears is terrorizing an island town. Climate change is to blame.
Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.
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#1215732019-07-15
AI could better predict climate change impacts, some experts believe
Artificial Intelligence is used to track patterns that could help tackle climate change challenges
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#1205332019-03-27
AOC obliterates claim that fighting climate change is 'elitist' in stirring speech
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's signature Green New Deal may not have gained enough votes in the Senate on Tuesday, but that hasn't stopped a stirring speech of hers from going viral. The New York Congresswoman spoke on Tuesday at a House Financial Services Committee meeting, slamming the idea that t ...
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#1322462021-12-21
ASEAN conference calls for acceleration in climate cooperation
The ASEAN Secretariat has organised the 17th Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (SOC-COM) via video teleconference to discuss the future of climate change cooperation in the region.
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#1189902018-12-12
About 252 species died in the 'great dying' due to climate change
About 252 years ago, the majority of the species on Earth were killed off in the great dying. It is noted as the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history.
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#1239102020-01-23
About Australia, Italy And Wildfires
The world’s attention has recently focused on the Australian wildfires caused by climate change. Yet, something similar happens every year also in Italy.
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#1215882019-07-16
Abu Dhabi is replanting mangroves in the fight against climate change
Abu Dhabi (CNN)The coastal city of Abu Dhabi is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change. It's threatened by rising sea levels and researchers say it could be too hot to live in by the end of this century if global warming trends continue.
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#1200322019-02-20
Academic: Very Few Climate Change Doubters, Issue Now Action
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) — A prominent American economist says there are "very few" individuals left who still doubt climate change because the evidence of its impact is clear.
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#1243552020-02-25
Accountants urged to help firms worldwide combat climate crisis
The world’s accountants must put the climate crisis at the forefront of their work to spur global companies to adopt green policies and help prepare them for the risks, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and other industry groups.
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#1326592022-01-20
Acting now on climate change is Canada’s best financial bet
A recent pilot study by the Bank of Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) highlighted that slow action on climate change will increase the related financial risks.