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#1188472018-11-08
Amazon Forests Failing To Keep Up With Climate Change
A team of more than 100 scientists has assessed the impact of global warming on thousands of tree species across the Amazon to discover the winners and losers from 30 years of climate change. Their analysis found the effects of climate change are altering the rainforest’s composition of tree spe ...
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#1316572021-11-15
Amazon birds change their body shape due to climate change
A new study showed that even the wildest parts of the Amazon rainforest untouched by humanity are being impacted by climate change.
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#1232702019-12-04
Amazon primates face barriers in responding to climate change
New research shows that without healthy forest corridors that allow animals to find new habitat, primates native to the Amazon basin will suffer as the impacts of climate change worsen.
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#1260092020-12-03
Amazon, Google, Walmart, and other leading firms, call on Biden, Congress to address climate change
Many of the nation’s top companies, including Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Ford, Google and Walmart, are calling on the new administration to address climate change and come up with long-term solutions in response to concerns from investors, customers, communities and employees.
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#1320952021-12-08
Amazonian Birds Are Shrinking in Response to Climate Change
A new study has found that birds in an undisturbed region of the Amazon are evolving smaller bodies and longer wings in response to the changing climate.
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#1346932022-05-25
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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#1354112022-07-21
Americans recognize the climate is changing. But they disagree on why — and what to do about it
As images of melting runways, buckling railway tracks and raging wildfires consumed the world's attention this week, Americans remained deadlocked on how to slow the climate change that scientists say is driving much of the extreme weather we're seeing.
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#1202802019-03-11
Amsterdam's First National Climate Change March Draws 40,000 People
Tens of thousands of people joined a climate change protest in Amsterdam on Sunday, urging the Dutch government to take action on climate change. The demonstration, the first of its kind in the Netherlands, drew around 40,000 people despite heavy rain, according to Agence France-Presse.
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#1351802022-07-04
An Avoidable Disaster: Experts Believe That Climate Change Threatens the Health of Billions
Climate change is thought to have a vast range of impacts on health today. However, experts believe that this will become even more severe unless action is soon taken. The health of vulnerable groups might become more jeopardized by both direct effects, such as excessive heat, and indirect effec ...
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#1333202022-02-18
An alternative take on our changing climate, from a leading meteorologist
Plagued with exceptional heat waves and record-breaking extremes, 2021 came in as Earth’s 6th hottest year on record according to NASA). But how does 2021 compare to various decades in the past century?
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#1299492021-08-16
An ancient era of global warming could hint at our scorching future
There was a time when alligators slid through weed-choked swamps near the North Pole. Some 55 million years ago—just around 10 million years after the mass extinction that killed T. rex and most of its kin—the average global temperature sat more than 20°F higher than it does today. Subtropical f ...
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#1223902019-09-26
An ethicist weighs in on our moral failure to act on climate change
In her address to the United Nations, Greta Thunberg charged adults with unforgivable moral failure. By failing to enact real change that will reverse global warming trends, grown-ups, she said, have "stolen my dreams and childhood."
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#1210082019-05-10
An idea to save coral reefs from climate change takes a step forward
Bleaching is bad for coral. It happens when heat-stressed polyps, the sessile animals that construct coral reefs, eject the photosynthetic algae which usually reside within them.
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#1267082021-01-26
An unexpected consequence of climate change: Heatwaves kill plant pests and save our favorite giant trees
Australia is sweltering through another heatwave, and there will be more in the near future as climate change brings hotter, drier weather. In some parts of Australia, the number of days above 40℃ will double by 2090, and with it the tragedy of more heat-related deaths.
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#1191682018-12-21
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
t's happened before, and it could happen again.Tens of thousands of years ago, a giant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. This inundated huge swaths of what had been dry land. Scientists think it could happen again as the world heats up because o ...
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#1266332021-01-15
Ancient Oceans Were Surprisingly Resilient to Climate Change – But Things Are Different Today
Oxygen levels in the ancient oceans were surprisingly resilient to climate change, new research suggests. Scientists used geological samples to estimate ocean oxygen during a period of global warming 56 million years ago — and found “limited expansion” of seafloor anoxia (absence of oxygen).
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#1347402022-05-27
Ancient Pollen Offers Clues to How Plants Adapted to Climate Change in the Past — and Potentially the Future
Each spring, many of us become hyper-aware of pollen. The dust-like substance, which plants release in bulk as they reproduce, is little more than a nuisance to many people as it irritates eyes and noses and coats cars in a light green powder.
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#1303382021-09-09
Ancient cave deposits reveal our climate future
As natural climate archives, the deposits found in caves can play an important role in our ability to understand—and predict—climate change.
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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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#1303352021-09-09
Ancient sea ice core sheds light on modern climate change
A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.
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#1205092019-03-26
Ancient trash mounds suggest climate change could have hastened fall of part of Byzantine Empire
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Israel has found evidence that suggests rapid climate change might have been a factor in the fall of part of the Byzantine Empire. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their ...
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#1219592019-08-20
Angela Merkel urges 'humility' towards nature at Iceland climate meeting
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Iceland for talks with leaders of Nordic countries.
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#1205432019-03-28
Anguilla’s Fishers Share their First-Hand Knowledge About Climate Change and its Impact
Fishers in Anguilla saw posted on Youtube this week a video they helped produce that depicts the impacts of climate change on their industry. Titled “Anguilla’s Fishing Dilemma”, the four-and-a-half minute video highlights some of the main challenges Anguilla’s 92 licensed fishers face in earnin ...
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#1305132021-09-22
Animals' limbs are stretching and warping because of climate change
Joel Asaph Allen is one of the most famous ornithologists in American history, and even a brief scanning of his career helps illustrate why. The 19th century scientist traveled from the Dakota Territory to Brazil in order to collect specimens.
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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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#1330222022-02-08
Antarctic carve-up looms as climate change leads to race for resources
The Earth’s polar regions could become conflict zones as climate change opens them up to mining and militarisation, experts fear. A complete ban on mining in Antarctica is due to expire in 2048 — by which time resources on other continents may be becoming scarce. Global warming could also make t ...
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#1334102022-02-22
Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level since measurements began in 1979
Sea ice around Antarctica has dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years, according to preliminary data from satellites.
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#1275562021-03-05
Antarctic seals reveal worrying threats to disappearing glaciers
More Antarctic meltwater is surfacing than was previously known, modifying the climate, preventing sea ice from forming and boosting marine productivity- according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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#1241672020-02-14
Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice.
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#1206492019-04-04
Antarctic: 'No role' for climate in Halley iceberg splitting
When a giant iceberg breaks away from near Britain's Halley research base, it won't be because of climate change. Scientists Jan De Rydt and Hilmar Gudmundsson have spent years studying the area and say the calving will be the result of natural processes only.
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#1228892019-11-06
Antarctica likely to drive rapid sea-level rise under climate change
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have shown that ice melt from Antarctica drives rapid and high sea-level rise, offering a forewarning of what to expect under human-driven climate change.
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#1240372020-01-30
Antarctica melting: Climate change and the 'doomsday glacier'
Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, described as the "most important" glacier in the world, is now melting faster than previously thought.Researchers trying to understand what's happening have drilled down through seven-hundred metres of ice, to allow a robot submarine to gather information.
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#1206792019-04-08
Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues
A 14-person team on a €13 million European project will head to the East Antarctica ice sheet later this year, to begin drilling an ice core several kilometres deep. Researchers will use the bubbles of carbon dioxide and other gases trapped inside ice cores to provide a window into the Earth’s p ...
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#1339252022-04-06
Any plans to dim the Sun and cool the Earth must be led by those most affected by climate change
The developed countries of the “global north” are responsible for 92% of excess global emissions, according to a 2020 study in The Lancet Planetary Health. Yet it is the rest of the world – the “global south” – that disproportionately bears the brunt of climate change.
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#1261482020-12-10
Arctic Ocean: Climate Change Is Flooding the Remote North With Light and New Species
At just over 14 million square kilometres, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s oceans. It is also the coldest. An expansive raft of sea ice floats near its centre, expanding in the long, cold, dark winter, and contracting in the summer, as the Sun climbs higher in the sky.
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#1256552020-11-11
Arctic Wildlife Are Shifting Their Behaviors Due to Climate Change
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth. Across the region's 5.5 million square miles of land and ocean, wildlife species—like caribou, golden eagles, grizzly bears and whales—are adjusting their behavior to cope with the effects brought on by climate change.
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#1249882020-04-02
Arctic climate change – it’s recent carbon emissions we should fear, not ancient methane ‘time bombs’
The Arctic is predicted to warm faster than anywhere else in the world this century, perhaps by as much as 7°C. These rising temperatures threaten one of the largest long-term stores of carbon on land: permafrost.
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#1321642021-12-14
Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 38C (100F), has been officially confirmed, sounding "alarm bells" over Earth's changing climate.
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#1282122021-04-22
Arctic sizzled in 2020, the warmest year for Europe too
Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Thursday.
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#1191792018-12-21
Are We Bored With Climate Change?
As the COP24 conference on climate change wrapped up last week in Poland without any major developments, downward-trending levels of interest in the subject have raised the question of whether the public and media have become weary of discussing it.
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#1196012019-01-25
Are We Headed Toward the Worst-Case Climate Change Scenario?
A record number of Americans say they accept that global warming is happening, according to a new survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, and nearly three-quarters of them now say it's an issue that's p ...
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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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#1240922020-02-05
Are locust outbreaks caused by climate change?
Hundreds of millions of desert locusts have swept over East Africa, destroying crops, ravaging pastures and threatening to worsen a hunger crisis in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. The worst outbreak in decades has affected Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – and the number of locusts c ...
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#1205762019-03-29
Are our cities effectively planning for climate change?
In 2006, pioneering cities such as London (United Kingdom) and Durban (South Africa) started integrating climate change in their policies and plans in order to prepare infrastructures, communities, ecosystems and institutions for its most likely impacts.
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#1210872019-05-16
Are right-wing populists a threat to European climate policy?
Right-wing populists have been gaining support throughout Europe and many of them deny the dangers of climate change. What does that mean for the future of climate policy on the continent?
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#1236812020-01-13
Are sinking soils in the Everglades related to climate change?
Characterized by alligators, airboats, and catfish, the Everglades is a region of swampy wetlands in southern Florida. In addition to the area's role in Florida's tourism industry, the Everglades play a significant part in protecting our environment—through carbon sequestration.
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#1294322021-06-29
Are we overlooking the role of grasslands in mitigating climate change?
In 2019, black wattle trees stood tall in around 50 hectares of land in Pazhathottam in Kerala’s Pambadum Shola National Park. Black wattle, in India, is an exotic, invasive tree and here, in Pazhathottam, it had invaded the open montane grasslands that occur naturally in these higher reaches of ...
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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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#1333322022-02-18
Argentine environmentalists sound the alarm on climate change
Pointing to the wildfires, drought and heat waves that have marked the start of 2022 in Argentina, environmental organizations call for adaptation, mitigation and effective laws to protect the ecosystem.
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#1196772019-01-30
Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Austrian chancellor for talks ahead of climate change summit
Hollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pictured in a friendly exchange with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Tuesday after the pair met to discuss the upcoming Austrian World Summit.