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#1193042019-01-09
Once derided, ways of adapting to climate change are gaining steam
From chronically flooded Midwestern towns to fire-charred California suburbs, from Bangladesh’s sodden delta to low island nations facing rising seas, a long-underplayed strategy for cutting risks related to human-driven climate change is coming to the fore—adaptation.
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#1193052019-01-09
Human-induced climate change fanning wildfires, study reports
Humans played a substantial role in making B.C. wildfires in 2017 bigger and more likely, says a new study by UVic and the federal government.Published in Earth’s Future, the study, by the Pacific Climate Impact Consortium at the University of Victoria and Environment and Climate Change Canada, ...
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#1193092019-01-09
2018 Global Disasters Cost $160 Billion; Climate Change a Factor, Report Says
Disasters cost the world a hefty $160 billion in 2018 and climate change was a factor in the final tally, a new report says.
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#1193222019-01-10
Climate change: Will insect-eating dogs help?
Do you fret that your pet pooch is blamed by environmentalists for turning rainforests into poo in the park? Have no fear - you can now fatten Fido on black soldier flies instead of Brazilian beef.
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#1193232019-01-10
Greenland's residents grapple with global warming
Nestled between icy peaks and lapped in frozen ocean waters, the tiny town of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland is home to some 2,000 people. Colorful wooden houses dot the sub-Arctic landscape battered by one of the harshest climates on the planet.
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#1193242019-01-10
Why climate change is going to clobber our economy
Never mind record temperatures, flooding, wildfires and rising seas. Recent reports about the state of climate change send another warning about its impacts: It’s going to clobber our economy.
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#1193352019-01-11
Oceans rising: can we save our collapsing coastline?
Summer at Inverloch surf beach is supposed to be about waves, sun and fun. But for locals, the beach is also a cause of increasing angst.
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#1193362019-01-11
Focusing on how individuals can stop climate change is very convenient for corporations
What can be done to limit global warming to 1.5°C? A quick internet search offers a deluge of advice on how individuals can change their behavior. Take public transport instead of the car or, for longer journeys, the train rather than fly. Eat less meat and more vegetables, pulses and grains, an ...
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#1193372019-01-11
Climate change is hitting food production, say Rwanda’s farm co-ops
Farm co-ops in Rwanda have warned that prolonged drought due to climate change have hit their production levels.In a new document from the country’s National Cooperatives Federation, Climate change impact on agriculture, the sector points to other climate-related problems, with damage to infrast ...
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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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#1193392019-01-11
Insurance and climate change
When it comes to the fight against climate change, the insurance industry does not normally spring to mind.It may come as a surprise to learn that the industry is not only one of the world’s biggest investors in fossil fuels, it is also highly exposed to the effects of climate change.
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#1193402019-01-11
Research: What Africans in five nations think about climate change
From flooding to drought, countries across the African continent experience climate change in environmentally and economically diverse settings – but what do its citizens really think about it?
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#1193622019-01-14
We must build resilience to climate change impact now!
News from scientists last week that the world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace is cause for even greater focus on the need for small island developing states to craft and implement resilience-building instruments.
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#1193672019-01-14
UBC researchers develop climate change video game for classroom use
A team of University of British Columbia researchers is creating a video game where Vancouver high school students can experience how their individual choices can minimize the effects of climate change.
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#1193682019-01-14
Climate change brings extreme weather
In the past, scientists were reluctant to attribute particular extreme weather events to climate change. But for the second consecutive year, they have done so with confidence.
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#1193692019-01-14
Globalization 4.0 will help us tackle climate change. Here’s how
Climate change – arguably humanity’s most existential challenge – requires urgent global action.As the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2019 will show only too clearly, environmental crises – notably a failure to tackle climate change – are among the likeliest and highest-impact risks t ...
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#1193702019-01-14
Seven-point plan to help tackle growing threat of climate change: Report
A seven-point plan may help policy-makers devise new, coherent and collaborative strategies to fight the greatest global environmental threats, according to a report.
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#1193842019-01-15
Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?
2018 was not an easy year for planet Earth. Sure, wind and solar energy kept getting cheaper, and an electric car became America’s best-selling luxury vehicle. But the most important metric of climatic health—the amount of heat-trapping gas entering the atmosphere—got suddenly and shockingly worse.
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#1193852019-01-15
Why protecting 'blue carbon' storage is crucial to fighting climate change
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels higher than any measured over the last 160,000 years. Rising concern over the risk of severe impacts from climate change is spurring research into ways in which ecosystems may mitigate global warming by storing ...
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#1193862019-01-15
To meet climate change targets, India must enable Adivasis to conserve its natural forests
At the Katowice Climate Change Conference in December, Indian negotiators fought for firm financial commitments to the global climate kitty from historical emitters. India has committed to achieving its goals under the Paris Agreement.
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#1194052019-01-16
Liberia Makes ‘Progress’ in Addressing Climate Change
Liberia has officially launched the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) project to take new approaches in addressing impact of natural disasters.
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#1194112019-01-16
The pace at which the world's permafrost soils are warming
Global warming is causing increasing damage in the world's permafrost regions. As the new global comparative study conducted by the international permafrost network GTN-P shows, in all regions with permafrost soils the temperature of the frozen ground at a depth of more than 10 metres rose by an ...
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#1194182019-01-16
Davos 2019: climate change causing most anxiety for business leaders, says report
The risks of catastrophic weather and flooding from climate change top the list of concerns for business leaders heading into next week's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
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#1194192019-01-16
Climate Change and a Salty Dilemma
As the threat of water scarcity increasingly grows, many have turned to the Earth’s plentiful oceans for a solution. However, this has created a new risk threatening public and environmental health: brine.
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#1194202019-01-16
Our oceans broke heat records in 2018 and the consequences are catastrophic
Last year was the hottest ever measured, continuing an upward trend that is a direct result of manmade greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1194212019-01-16
Why mobility is a climate change issue
Mobility — that meaningless buzzword that's topping the powerpoint slides of struggling automakers, growing tech companies and eager venture capitalists — is actually a climate change issue. Or it really should be, according to a series of reports that came out this week.
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#1194222019-01-16
Global tensions holding back climate change fight, says WEF
Growing tension between the world’s major powers is the most urgent global risk and makes it harder to mobilise collective action to tackle climate change, according to a report prepared for next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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#1194252019-01-16
Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Managing Risks for a More Resilient Future
The World Bank Group today launched its Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience. Under the plan, the World Bank Group will ramp up direct adaptation climate finance to reach $50 billion over FY21–25.
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#1194542019-01-17
We are ‘sleepwalking into catastrophe’ over environmental risks, says World Economic Forum survey
Environmental risks pose the biggest threat to the world this year, with extreme weather events and failings in the global response to climate change among the issues we should be most concerned about, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum
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#1194562019-01-17
Memes highlight climate change, the #10YearChallenge we should all be worried about
The #10YearChallange has taken the social media by storm. While the millennials have used the trend to tell the world how much their appearance has changed (obviously for good), a few individuals and organisations have used the trending hashtag to nudge the world over a neglected issue: climate ...
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#1194572019-01-17
Penguin populations are among most vulnerable to climate change: study
Some of the world’s most “charismatic” species are the most at risk due to climate change, a new study says.The study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Thursday, shows since glaciers and breaking ice shelves are so important to certain species, they will be the first ones to feel the ...
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#1194582019-01-17
Climate change to cause more damage to Canada’s northern roads than previously feared: study
The impact of climate change on roads and other crucial structures in Canada’s North is likely to be even greater than feared, says new detailed research.
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#1194592019-01-17
How to Think About the Costs of Climate Change
Many of the big economic questions in coming decades will come down to just how extreme the weather will be, and how to value the future versus the present.
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#1194602019-01-17
Rohit Sharma highlights climate change with #10yearchallenge
Rohit Sharma also got into the #10yearchallenge but he decided against comparing pics of himself from 2009 to a present version.Rohit Sharma has also got into the 10-year challenge, albeit with a difference. The Indian limited overs vice-captain, instead of posting a pic of himself from 10 years ...
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#1194612019-01-17
Climate change is slowing down Antarctic starfish, Otago scientists find
A sturdy, resilient starfish from Antarctica is giving Kiwi scientists insight into how climate change can affect the life cycles of sea creatures.
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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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#1194982019-01-18
Yet again, climate change is the greatest threat facing our world
For the past decade, the World Economic Forum has put out a yearly review of the greatest threats to our world—the economic and geopolitical risks that endanger our planet, our way of life, and even our species.
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#1194992019-01-18
Starfish, Jellyfish to Benefit from Climate Change: Study
Seafloor predators and open water feeding animals like the starfish and the jellyfish will benefit from climate change, while those associated with sea ice for food or breeding are most at risk, a study said on Thursday.
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#1195002019-01-18
Why We Won't Quit the Climate Fight
We are old climate veterans who have tried to do our part, in every way we know how, to keep our fossil-fuel addicted civilization from driving off a cliff. Are we tired? Sure. Discouraged? Absolutely. Pissed off? Yep. Sad? Call it broken-hearted. Quitting?
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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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#1195072019-01-18
Grassroots set to drive 2019 climate action as climate change deniers take center stage
The environment needs help. When politicians out themselves as climate change deniers, grassroots and civil society groups get louder. But how much can they achieve?
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#1195162019-01-21
Water sector must become resistant to climate change
Exclusive interview with Jan Kürstein, Hydrogeologist and Senior Consultant Water and Natural Resources at Rambøll in Denmark.“Cape Town is a good example that Africa has started to face the effects of climate change by investigating alternative water resources and minimising the loss of non-rev ...
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#1195172019-01-21
Annie Proulx on the best books to understand climate change
Today we live with non-stop special events of fire, flood, mud slide, rising water, whirling hurricanes, toxic algae blooms, unprecedented droughts. That word “unprecedented” is coming to define our time.
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#1195182019-01-21
Argentina and Spain scientific research on climate change impact on hake in Tierra del Fuego
Scientific study suggests snoek (Thyrsites atun) can re-colonize the marine area of the Beagle Channel and South-Western Atlantic waters, an area in the southernmost point of the South American continent where this species competed with the hake (Merluccius sp.) to hunt preys in warmer periods.
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#1195192019-01-21
'The great dying'
Forget the K-Pg extinction that led to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million-years-ago - the most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred 251 million-years-ago at the end of the Permian.
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#1195372019-01-22
Near-term climate prediction coming of age, study shows
The quest for climate scientists to be able to bridge the gap between shorter-term seasonal forecasts and long-term climate projections is coming of age, a study shows.
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#1195382019-01-22
Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice loss
Greenland has gone through an "unprecedented" period of ice loss within the last two decades. The Grace satellites revealed a four-fold increase in mass being lost from Greenland's ice sheet from 2003-2013.
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#1195442019-01-23
Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
Ever since human-caused climate change emerged into public consciousness around the late 1980s, news stories and public awareness campaigns surrounding the topic have predominantly been accompanied by images of polar bears and melting ice, reinforcing common misconceptions that the impacts are f ...
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#1195452019-01-23
Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years
A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists.
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#1195612019-01-24
Davos: ‘We Are Losing The Race On Climate Change’ – UN Chief
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that the world is “losing the race” on climate change as he demanded that governments make bolder commitments beyond the Paris accord.