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#1346092022-05-19
Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
The UN’s first climate conference took place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and in the intervening decades we have had a series of global meetings and countless assessments and studies.
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#1346102022-05-19
French dijon mustard supply hit by climate and rising costs, say producers
Climate change and rising costs are causing supermarkets in France to run out of dijon mustard, raising questions over whether the shortage could spread to other countries.
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#1346132022-05-19
How Climate Change Fuels Global Hunger
As global emissions continue to surge, setting the world on a course to barrel past critical climate targets, the planet is rapidly becoming a place of brutal extremes—one of record heat waves, torrential rain, and searing droughts.
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#1345302022-05-18
‘World is at boiling point’: humanity must redefine relationship with nature, says report
The world is at “boiling point” and humanity needs to redefine its relationship with nature if it is to address a web of crises, from rising prices to extreme heat and floods, according to a report released ahead of a landmark UN conference.
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#1345392022-05-18
Global pollution kills 9 million people a year, study finds
A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000.
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#1345402022-05-18
UN floats plan to boost renewables as climate worries mount
The United Nations chief on Wednesday launched a five-point plan to jump-start broader use of renewable energies, hoping to revive world attention on climate change as the U.N.'s weather agency reported that greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification hit n ...
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#1345442022-05-18
Understanding Climate Risks and Opportunities
It’s hard to understate the severity of the current climate crisis facing the world. The latest roundup of scientific evidence draws an unequivocal link to human-caused atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions—primarily from the burning of fossil fuels— which is negatively impacting natural climate ...
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#1345452022-05-18
Climate Change Boosted Cost of Japan Storm by $4 Billion, Study Shows
The effects of human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly $4 billion of the $10 billion in insured losses resulting from Typhoon Hagibis that struck Japan in October of 2019, according to a new analysis of the storm.
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#1345502022-05-18
Spotted hyenas adapt to climate change in famed Tanzanian park
Spotted hyenas appear to be adapting to climate change in Tanzania’s famous Serengeti National Park, surprising researchers who expected changing rainfall patterns would force the carnivores to spend more time searching for prey than tending to their cubs.
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#1345522022-05-18
Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the oceans
Much of the ‘excess heat’ stored in the North Atlantic is in the deep ocean, at depths of below 2,300 feet, new research has shown.
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#1345532022-05-18
Trees are dying much faster in northern Australia — climate change is probably to blame
The rate of trees dying in the old-growth tropical forests of northern Australia each year has doubled since the 1980s, and researchers say climate change is probably to blame.
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#1345542022-05-18
How climate change is putting millions at risk of radon exposure
Deep in the frozen ground of the north, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for millennia. But U.K. scientist Paul Glover realized some years back that it wouldn’t always be that way: One day it might get out.
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#1345552022-05-18
These Animals Are Thriving Under Climate Change
Climate change is a disaster for wildlife worldwide, according to the most recent IPCC report. At least 10,967 species are facing increased extinction risk because of climate change, and half of all species already seem to be on the move as their habitats transform, according to a 2017 study pub ...
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#1345562022-05-18
U.N. global climate report shows severe impact on food security
Climate change continued to heat up the Earth in 2021 as concentrations of greenhouse gases increased, sea-ice mass shrank and ocean levels rose, according to a new report from the United Nations World Meteorological Organization. Severe impacts on food security were felt worldwide.
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#1345592022-05-18
Australia’s tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in ‘clear and stark climate warning’
Australia’s tropical rainforest trees have being dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of global heating, according to new research that raises concerns tropical forests could start to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb.
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#1345042022-05-17
Using proptech to combat climate change
Technology may not save the world from climate change entirely, but commercial property insiders are confident it will help. Property technology, or proptech, is already being deployed in the construction and property management sectors to streamline work and control costs in development and mai ...
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#1345052022-05-17
Climate change: EU emissions surpass pre-pandemic levels
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, emissions in the EU dropped sharply as lockdowns brought industries to a standstill and people worked from home. Those environmental gains have now been erased, new data shows.
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#1345132022-05-17
Sandstorm blankets Saudi capital in grey haze
A sandstorm engulfed Saudi Arabia's capital and other regions of the desert kingdom Tuesday, hampering visibility and slowing road traffic.
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#1345232022-05-17
Climate change is heating up Florida. That could bring more wildfires, new report warns
When Hurricane Michael tore through North Florida in 2018 as a Category 5 storm, it left more than 3 million acres of felled trees in its wake.
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#1345252022-05-17
Climate change is hurting insurers, report says
Climate change is hurting the insurance industry and only 8% of insurers are preparing adequately for its impact, consultants Capgemini and financial industry body Efma said in a report on Tuesday.
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#1345282022-05-17
Critical climate indicators broke records in 2021, says UN
Critical global indicators of the climate crisis broke records in 2021, according to a UN report, from rising oceans to the levels of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere.
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#1344782022-05-16
49 degrees in Delhi, flash floods in some region. Experts warn of climate change
Climate change has been peeking round the corner, when several countries took some steps to counter the damage done. However, experts have only warned that several parts on earth will only continue to reel under severe heatwave conditions as maximum temperatures continue to soar.
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#1344792022-05-16
Fear of ‘The Beast’ still lingers: Climate change and giant fire’s legacy make for unnerving times in Fort McMurray
Kellie Bosch was in her backyard drinking some wine when an ember of ash drifted into her glass. That’s when she knew the fire of 2016 would be different.
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#1344812022-05-16
Extreme temperatures compound poverty in Pakistan's hottest city
By the time Pakistani schoolboy Saeed Ali arrived at hospital in one of the world's hottest cities, his body was shutting down from heatstroke.
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#1344822022-05-16
Latest sandstorm brings Iraq to standstill
Another sandstorm that descended Monday on Iraq sent at least 2,000 people to hospital with breathing problems and led to the closure of airports, schools and public offices across the country.
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#1344842022-05-16
Canadians have their say about how best to adapt to climate change
With flooding emergencies in parts of Western and Northern Canada, the federal government wants to hear from Canadians about how to adapt to such climate-related disasters.
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#1344872022-05-16
Climate change disrupting 'language of life' across all ecosystems
Living beings don’t just communicate through sound – we also communicate through chemicals using smell to find mates, food and stay away from predators.
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#1344312022-05-13
South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
The massive and deadly floods that struck South Africa in April were made twice as likely and more intense by global heating, scientists have calculated. The research demonstrates that the climate emergency is resulting in devastation.
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#1344332022-05-13
Hundreds escape flood waters in Queensland as state lashed by severe thunderstorms
Hundreds of Queenslanders have fled to higher ground or been rescued from flood waters with thousands on alert on Friday night as severe thunderstorms lash the state’s south-east.
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#1344372022-05-13
Biodiversity Solutions Also Fight Climate Change
Mass extinction lurks beneath the surface of the sea. That was the dire message from a study published in April in the journal Science, which found that continuing to emit greenhouse gases unchecked could trigger a mass die-off of ocean animals that rivals the worst extinction events in Earth’s ...
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#1344482022-05-13
Climate adaptation is a business opportunity — but at what cost?
Fancy getting real-time data on where lightning is striking during a thunderstorm, accurate to under a hundred metres, using a couple of lightweight ground-based sensors?
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#1344552022-05-13
South Asia pummelled by heatwave that hits 50C in Pakistan
South Asia was in the grip of an extreme heatwave on Friday, with parts of Pakistan reaching a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius as officials warned of acute water shortages and a health threat.
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#1344682022-05-13
‘Is it all worth it?’: farmers left heartbroken as Queensland floods ruin crops
A “gut-wrenching” clean up and recovery is under way across Queensland as the flood waters slowly subside from the second major rain event this year.
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#1343912022-05-12
Extreme weather: What is it and how is it connected to climate change?
People around the globe are experiencing dramatic heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires as a result of climate change. Parts of Pakistan and north-west India could see temperatures of more than 50C this weekend.
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#1343882022-05-12
Climate change increases risks of tree death
Planting a tree seems like a generally good thing to do for the environment. Trees, after all, take in carbon dioxide, offsetting some of the emissions that contribute to climate change.
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#1343932022-05-12
Climate change isn't just making cyclones worse, it's making the floods they cause worse too
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events on our planet.
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#1343942022-05-12
Climate Change: Even If We Miss the 1.5°C Target, We Must Not Allow More Warming
'We must all become engaged and active to protect our world, by all means possible', experts suggest. Is it game over for our attempts to avert dangerous climate change?
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#1343952022-05-12
Tree death contributes to climate change more than you’d think
Trees hold an important place in global climate change efforts, but with tree deaths increasing, could they do more harm than good?
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#1343962022-05-12
How Miami Can Survive Climate Change
This article is part of a series from Future Tense and New America’s Future of Land and Housing Program on managed retreat and other adaptations to climate change.
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#1343992022-05-12
Dehydrated birds falling from sky in India amid record heatwave
Rescuers in India’s western Gujarat state are picking up dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day as a scorching heatwave dries out water sources in the state’s biggest city, veterinary doctors and animal rescuers say.
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#1343622022-05-11
Climate change is devastating the Global South
Right now in India and Pakistan, a record-breaking heatwave is impacting the daily lives of nearly a billion people. Scorching temperatures are damaging wheat harvests, preventing many labourers from working outdoors, and making people vulnerable to serious health issues and even death.
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#1343642022-05-11
Climate Change Controlled Where Early Humans Lived
Astronomically driven climate change influenced where various archaic humans—a broad group including Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Homo neanderthalensis who roamed the earth about 2.3 million years ago—lived and when they moved to new locations.
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#1343652022-05-11
What NZ's lost moa is teaching us about climate change
New Zealand's long-lost moa can offer useful insights into how today's species might respond to a fast-changing climate, scientists say.
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#1343262022-05-10
Earth given 50-50 chance of hitting key warming mark by 2026
The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted.
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#1343342022-05-10
More Human Remains Have Been Revealed By Climate Change At Lake Mead
Thanks to the ongoing drought in the US, the parched, rapidly receding waters of Nevada's Lake Mead have revealed a second set of long-lost human remains in less than a week.
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#1343352022-05-10
Talia Resnick: Exploring the Roles of Companies in Combating Climate Change
Columbia Climate School’s inaugural class of students will don their blue caps and robes for Commencement and Class Day this week. But while classes may be over, the students will be working at a variety of exciting internships this summer, before officially graduating in August.
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#1343362022-05-10
Mountains Undergo Enhanced Impacts of Climate Change
Mountain regions cover approximately a quarter of the Earth’s land surface, although the exact percentage depends on criteria used to define them. The rain and snow that fall in mountains eventually move downstream and provide water for millions of people.
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#1343372022-05-10
6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on climate change in a more dangerous and divided world
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of new commitments to lower global greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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#1343382022-05-10
Climate change: put water at the heart of solutions
I was born in a village near the Sundarbans mangrove forests in West Bengal, India. Many of my childhood memories are of overheard conversations — worried adults discussing how the rains failed or how brackish water crept in to ruin the rice crop.
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#1343392022-05-10
Climate change pushing pine beauty moth northward in Finland 50 years ahead of predictions
Climate change is causing the pine pest Panolis flammea, or pine beauty moth, to shift its range northward 50 years ahead of predictions, according to a new study