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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
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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.