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#134743
2022-05-27

Climate Change Threatens Important African Coastal Sites

The Door of No Return is worn smooth, the rust-hued stone frame eroded by the chained feet that shuffled through it to waiting ships. From the 15th to the 19th century, Senegal’s Island of Gorée was a departure point for some of the millions who suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.

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#134744
2022-05-27

Preparing for climate change's effects more than ever critical: President

President Ramaphosa said potential disasters of the magnitude of the recent flooding have brought government’s disaster preparedness into sharp focus, with critical questions and solutions sought.

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#134747
2022-05-27

Biodiversity eyed as tool vs climate crisis

BIODIVERSITY protection is a major tool against climate change, advocates said during the first episode of youth-led climate webcast Stories for Better Reality titled "Biodiversity and Climate Change: Anong Konek?"

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#134678
2022-05-25

‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C

Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the whole city and there was no shortage of water and we had other facilities so we c ...

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#134687
2022-05-25

How climate change, construction can weaken trees and cause severe storm damage

Last Saturday's severe thunderstorm and strong winds caused extensive damage across Waterloo Region and Guelph. Uprooted trees and snapped branches damaged cars, homes, property. In Ontario, nine of the ten people killed by the storm, and its aftermath, died from being struck by felled trees or ...

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#134688
2022-05-25

Do we need nuclear power in the energy mix to stop climate change?

Some say it is indispensable if we are serious about hitting net-zero emissions targets. Others insist it is unnecessary and unconscionable. Here is what you need to know about nuclear energy now

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#134689
2022-05-25

The US corn belt risks becoming cornless by 2100 as climate change forces farms northwards

Traditional farmlands in the Central and Eastern United States will need to shift under climate change, according to new research from Emory University.

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#134690
2022-05-25

Six Ways Climate Change Is Making Poor People Poorer

Heat waves like the ones roasting South Asia this year don't just sap people's strength. They drain people's finances in ways that are not always obvious.

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#134692
2022-05-25

See your climate blind spots

Many companies are rightly focused on managing their impact on the climate. But these companies should not forget the climate’s impact on them.

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#134693
2022-05-25

American Society of Nephrology Urges Action on Climate Change

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is calling on kidney health professionals to take action to address the impact of climate change on the 850 million people—including more than 37 million Americans—living with kidney diseases across the world who are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of ...

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#134694
2022-05-25

Africa Day: How WFP helps families struck by climate change in Burundi

Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family.

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#134695
2022-05-25

More firms adopting 'wait-and-see' strategy on climate change - EIB

The Head of Group Office for Ireland at the European Investment Bank, Cormac Murphy, has said that firms are waking up to the reality of what climate change and the green transition means for them.

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#134696
2022-05-25

Climate change is eroding a precious resource: sleep

Everyone knows the horrible feeling: A stuffy night, just a little too warm, leads to restless sleep, and then next morning, you feel like a slow, groggy shell of yourself.

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#134697
2022-05-25

Who is to blame for 30 years of climate change inertia?

Our old world, the one that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years,” Mike Davis declared in 2010, “has ended.” A decade later, David Wallace-Wells sounded the same death-knell in his 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth: “The climate system that raised us… is now, like a parent, dead.”

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#134711
2022-05-25

Astrophysics student discovers link between global warming and locally unstable weather

Climate change gives rise to more unstable weather, local droughts and extreme temperature records, but a coherent theory relating local and global climate is still under active development.

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#134606
2022-05-19

Climate Change: A Major Cause of Death for Rainforest Trees

According to a new study, tropical trees in rainforest regions of Australia have been dying at double the previous rate from the 1980s. This is apparently due to climate impacts.

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#134607
2022-05-19

Climate Change Will Make Heat Like India’s 100 Times More Likely, Study Finds

The climate crisis is making heat waves like the one currently gripping India and Pakistan more than 100 times more likely to occur than they would be otherwise, a new study by the U.K. government has found.

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#134608
2022-05-19

Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches

One day more than 3,000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found ...

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#134609
2022-05-19

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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#134610
2022-05-19

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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#134613
2022-05-19

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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#134530
2022-05-18

‘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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#134539
2022-05-18

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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#134540
2022-05-18

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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#134544
2022-05-18

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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#134545
2022-05-18

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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#134550
2022-05-18

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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#134552
2022-05-18

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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#134553
2022-05-18

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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#134554
2022-05-18

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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#134555
2022-05-18

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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#134556
2022-05-18

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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#134559
2022-05-18

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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#134504
2022-05-17

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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#134505
2022-05-17

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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#134513
2022-05-17

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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#134523
2022-05-17

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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#134525
2022-05-17

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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#134528
2022-05-17

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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#134478
2022-05-16

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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#134479
2022-05-16

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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#134481
2022-05-16

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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#134482
2022-05-16

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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#134484
2022-05-16

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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#134487
2022-05-16

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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#134431
2022-05-13

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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#134433
2022-05-13

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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#134437
2022-05-13

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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#134448
2022-05-13

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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#134455
2022-05-13

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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