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#1343402022-05-10
Copenhagen's unusually high benches are raising the alarm on climate change
Walking around Copenhagen right now, you might be surprised to see very tall public benches adorning the streets. And what makes it even more peculiar is that a TV channel has installed them - but not for filming.
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#1343422022-05-10
Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis
A record-breaking heat wave is sweeping South Asia, threatening hundreds of millions of people with deadly temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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#1342962022-05-05
How companies blame you for climate change
Businesses shape how we talk about climate change, and sometimes this can stop us from paying attention to their actions.
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#1342972022-05-05
Climate change sparks displacement in Peru’s Amazonas, as families could be made homeless three times in six months
Families in Peru's Amazonas region are at risk of being displaced for a third time in six months as climate change intensifies the impact of disasters, leaving children without quality education or security about their future, Save the Children said.
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#1342992022-05-05
Why Climate Change Makes It Harder to Fight Fire With Fire
Worsening wildfires in recent years have led officials to embrace planned fires to thin forests before disaster strikes. But the warming world is making it tougher to do safely.
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#1343002022-05-05
Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals
Mammals forced to move to cooler climes amid global warming are “already” spreading their viruses further – with “undoubtable” impacts for human health, a new study says.
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#1343012022-05-05
Climate change: Spring egg-laying shifts by three weeks
"In some parts of this wood, egg-laying has shifted by three weeks," explains Dr Ella Cole of Oxford University. The softly-spoken, seasoned ornithologist is showing me around a very special field site - Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire; one of the most studied woodlands in the world.
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#1343172022-05-05
From Australia to Hawai’i, climate change is playing havoc with the property market
There’s a lot to consider when looking to buy a house. From schools to healthcare and crime rates, it's a long list with one more factor rapidly moving to the top: the impact of climate change.
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#1342562022-05-04
How Oslo learned to fight climate change.
In September of 2019, roughly a dozen workers in Oslo, Norway, broke ground on the world’s first zero-emission construction site. They were widening a busy street into a pedestrian zone, using powerful machinery to break and lift slabs of asphalt.
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#1342572022-05-04
Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn’t match up to what young people actually want
The UK government has introduced a new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools. However, our research shows that it does not go far enough to meet what young people and teachers want.
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#1342582022-05-04
Variability in frost occurrence under climate change and consequent risk of damage to trees of western Quebec, Canada
Climate change affects timings, frequency, and intensity of frost events in northern ecosystems. However, our understanding of the impacts that frost will have on growth and survival of plants is still limited.
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#1342592022-05-04
La Niña, climate change — why Indian subcontinent got scorched so early & for so long this year
The Indian subcontinent is currently at the tail end of a prolonged heat wave that lasted nearly six weeks, resulting in the warmest March and April on record for the region. During this time, Indian cities saw temperatures soar to over 45°C, while places in Pakistan went upwards of 47°C.
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#1342722022-05-04
Prehistoric global warming caused sharp decline in marine biodiversity
A brief global warming that occurred about 300 million years ago caused a significant drop in marine biodiversity, according to a study published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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#1342742022-05-04
Worst drought in decades devastates Ethiopia's nomads
There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.
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#1342782022-05-04
Somalia: Greenhouse Farming to Combat Climate Change
Farmers in Mogadishu have switched to greenhouse technologies to boost sustainable food production, reduce water consumption and protect their crops from drought.
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#1342802022-05-04
Climate change is why New Mexico's wildfire season started early this year
The smoke emerges, like a white veil draped across the sky, on the drive up from Albuquerque to this picturesque city of 84,000. Historically, New Mexico’s wildfire season begins in May or June, but this year, wildfires sprung up in the drought-parched New Mexican desert in April.
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#1342812022-05-04
Climate ‘Change’ Is Just History, but Our Climate Crisis Is Different
This time, climate “change” is not a lie The climate changes all the time. Climate change is real. Climate change is natural. Climate change is inevitable.
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#1342842022-05-04
Massive Carbon Emission Caused Marine Anoxia and Biodiversity Loss 304 Million Years Ago
What will happen in the near future as global warming continues? What environmental conditions will life on Earth most likely confront?
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#1342162022-04-28
Conserving South Okanagan habitat a key climate change solutions tool
April is Earth Month and in the South Okanagan, a non-profit land conservation organization wants to highlight the importance of protecting the biodiversity that is spread throughout the valley.
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#1342192022-04-28
For Gen Z, Climate Change Is a Heavy Emotional Burden
People who have come of age in recent decades — millennials and members of Generation Z — have been exposed to a steady stream of alarming news about climate change and ecological destruction
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#1342232022-04-28
Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change
The Mediterranean region is warming 20% faster than the world as a whole, raising concerns about the impacts that climate change and other environmental upheaval will have on ecosystems, agriculture and the region’s 542 million people.
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#1342332022-04-28
Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up
With national borders created for geopolitical rather than ecological reasons, it’s unsurprising that the ranges of more than half of all terrestrial mammals, birds and amphibians cross at least one border.
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#1342342022-04-28
It’s not just climate change driving natural disaster losses
Climate change is contributing to rising losses from natural disasters, including increased damage to physical assets and disruption to business operations.
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#1342372022-04-28
Climate change: Record tree losses in 2021 in northern regions
Tree cover losses in northern regions of the world were the highest on record in 2021, according to new analysis from Global Forest Watch.
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#1342492022-04-28
Stories about economic degrowth help fight climate change — and yield a host of other benefits
There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC’s working groups — those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation — use the economic term to discuss policies that ar ...
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#1342002022-04-27
It’s raining harder than ever. New research says climate change is to blame.
The old cliche is more accurate than ever before: When it rains, it pours. According to an analysis of hourly rainfall data released Wednesday by the nonprofit science and media organization Climate Central, the U.S. has seen widespread increases in rainfall intensity since the 1970s.
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#1342012022-04-27
New York City’s Central Park Becomes a Lab to Study Climate Change
New York City’s famous Central Park was first created in 1858 and is NYC’s “green lungs.” Now, scientists are using Central Park to study climate change to help parks all around the nation become more resilient.
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#1342022022-04-27
Climate change: 'Nature bounces back when given a chance,' Planet CEO says
As climate change increasingly disrupts complicated earth systems in unprecedented ways, one company hopes to use high-resolution satellite imaging to better understand how the planet is changing.
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#1342032022-04-27
Climate change putting 4% of global GDP at risk, new study estimates
Climate change could see 4% of global annual economic output lost by 2050 and hit many poorer parts of the world disproportionately hard, a new study of 135 countries has estimated.
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#1342042022-04-27
Climate change hits harvest of one of world’s priciest mushrooms in Himalayas
Picking wild morel mushrooms brought big money to mountain villages in the Indian Himalayas. But higher spring temperatures and low rainfall may mean an end to the lucrative harvest.
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#1341612022-04-25
More squid, less sockeye salmon on Vancouver menus? B.C. study looks at impacts of climate change
Vancouver seafood lovers may notice more squid and less sockeye salmon on local menus in the near future because of climate change.
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#1341632022-04-25
Canada must urgently invest in research into the health impacts of climate change
The federal budget allocated a lot of money to trying to tackle the causes of climate change, but it glaringly missed the opportunity to support research that would help address the impacts of climate change on human health.
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#1341652022-04-25
Climate Change is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds
As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get.
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#1341682022-04-25
What choices does the world need to make to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius?
When the 2015 Paris Agreement set a long-term goal of keeping global warming "well below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels" to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it did not specify how its nearly 200 signatory nations could collectively achieve that goal.
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#1341702022-04-25
Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it's time to get real about climate change
Last month, former carbon market watchdog Andrew MacIntosh blew the whistle on Australia's carbon offset market. He described the scheme as a "rort" with up to 80% of carbon offsets "markedly low in integrity."
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#1341872022-04-25
How company boards can be a vanguard for climate action
Board directors and chairpersons are accustomed to navigating a changing and challenging landscape; from the global pandemic to geopolitics, from humanitarian crises to the climate crisis, and from the rise of tech to the Great Resignation,
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#1341882022-04-25
How Southern French Winemakers Are Adapting Their Rosés to Climate Change
The 2021 vintage underscored the many challenges that southern French producers are facing amidst climatic extremes and rising temperatures. How will it impact their rosés?
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#1341892022-04-25
Climate Change Projection Shows Piraeus, Thessaloniki Under Water
Climate change models created by Climate Central, an independent organization of top scientists and journalists, show the devastation that rising sea levels could cause on coastal cities, including those in Greece, such as Piraeus and Thessaloniki.
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#1341902022-04-25
Climate adaptation is going to be a disaster
The recent IPCC report is clear: To the extent that the world cannot avoid climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, humanity must learn to live in a warmer climate, a process often referred to as adaptation.
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#1341232022-04-20
Cities Must Address The Threat Of Climate Change
While we cope with the immediate crises of Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine, rising inflation, and political turmoil, we’ve been reminded recently of a pervasive, lurking problem: climate change.
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#1341302022-04-20
There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls
The world is buzzing with climate change solutions these days: Maybe we can plant a trillion trees to save ecosystems and scrub greenhouse gases out of the air in one fell swoop!
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#1341372022-04-20
Experts say human-caused climate change is putting African wildlife at risk
Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human-caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts.
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#1341382022-04-20
Climate change linked to fewer bugs, study finds
The insects that keep the world running by pollinating plants and supporting food chains face grave risks, a new study has found. The combination of climate change and heavy agriculture is having a profound impact on the abundance and diversity of insects, according to a study published Wednesda ...
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#1341462022-04-20
Lowering the temperature on a hot topic: A climate change primer
Climate changes. It has done so, often dramatically, over the course of Earth's geologic timescales, measured in hundreds of thousands and millions of years. Some of these changes might have caused a phenomenon called snowball Earth, a period in which the entire planet froze over.
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#1341012022-04-18
Why Are Nature-Based Solutions on Climate Being Overlooked?
Nature-based initiatives, such as planting mangroves and revitalizing wetlands, have proven effective in making communities more resilient to climate change. But international funding has shortchanged such solutions in favor of more costly and less efficient engineering projects.
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#1341032022-04-18
Is Veganism The Solution To Climate Change?
As the climate hots up, so too does the pressure on us to do something about it. According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, we have just 32 months – less than three years – to get our act together. Before 2025, greenhouse gas emissions must peak.
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#1341042022-04-18
Climate Change is Killing Trees
A long time ago in the Milky Way galaxy on a planet named Earth the trees died. It only happened once in the planet’s history. It was during the Permian-Triassic 252 million years ago.
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#1341052022-04-18
How climate change is disrupting the global supply chain
The COVID pandemic has rightly received most of the blame for global supply chain upheavals in the last two years. But the less publicized threat to supply chains from climate change poses a far more serious threat and is already being felt, scholars and experts say.
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#1341062022-04-18
Earth's coral reefs will be gone in 30 years without intervention: experts
If humans do not take drastic action to reduce emissions and slow climate change, almost all of the Earth’s coral reefs will be dead in 30 years, according to a new report that outlines ways we can pinpoint which reefs to protect now.
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#1340822022-04-14
Climate change and us: What really shaped human evolution last 2 million years
Ancient humans likely evolved in response to climate shifts by settling and adapting to newer habitats, according to a new study.