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#1198012019-02-06
Deep inside the deadly avalanche that climate change built
Kalle Kronholm works on the edge of the world, at the crossroads of science and public safety. Through his company, Skred AS, Kronholm is avalanche consultant to the roughly 2,600 residents of the Norwegian island of Svalbard, at perhaps the most volatile moment in the island’s long relationship ...
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#1198112019-02-06
Trump speech: climate change omission 'ignorant and irresponsible', experts say
A climate scientist and a former government expert in the audience for Donald Trump’s annual address to Congress said this will probably be the last administration that can forego talking about climate change in the State of the Union speech.
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#1198232019-02-07
Carbon offsets: Worth buying to fight climate change?
If you've ever booked a flight with an airline like Air Canada or WestJet, you might have been offered a chance to pay money to "offset" the carbon emissions from your flight. But what exactly does that mean? Is it worthwhile? And how do you know you're really getting what you pay for?
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#1198242019-02-07
Met Office: global warming could exceed 1.5C within five years
Global warming could temporarily hit 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time between now and 2023, according to a long-term forecast by the Met Office.
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#1198272019-02-07
Nature’s insurance plan
Climate change is having a devastating impact on the planet, despite Trump’s bizarre intimations that the recent cold weather in North America is proof that global warming is welcome to “come back.”
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#1198422019-02-07
Climate change calls for global leadership
People in Hong Kong who have enjoyed a warmer Lunar New Year than usual should spare a thought for Americans who recently experienced the coldest winter in 50 years, prompting scientists to cite climate change. Towards the end of January, the United States National Weather Service warned residen ...
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#1198432019-02-07
Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez unveils bold plan to fight climate change
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is releasing a broad outline of a vision for the Green New Deal, a plan to battle economic and racial injustice while also fighting climate change.
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#1198512019-02-08
So What It's Warmer? - Climate Change Messaging Must Evolve Now
In my Forbes articles, I try to provide credible scientific information in a manner that a scientist, student, policymaker, or someone at the Mall can understand. I often use the "So What?" litmus test to convey my thoughts because many scientists get "stuck in the mud" of their discipline thou ...
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#1198522019-02-08
Climate Change: Earth very similar to 115,000 years ago, except dramatic sea level rise
Somewhere dating back to 115,000 years ago, humans or as we may call them homo sapiens were all the while living in groups of hunters and gatherers, to a great extent restricted to Africa. While these primates didn't have any idea, but the Earth was reaching the end of a noteworthy warm period. ...
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#1198702019-02-08
UK pupils to join global strike over climate change crisis
The school climate strikes that have led to tens of thousands of young people taking to the streets around the world over recent months are poised to arrive in the UK next Friday.
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#1198822019-02-11
A ‘mass invasion’ of polar bears is terrorizing an island town. Climate change is to blame.
Fences have risen around kindergartens. Special vehicles transport military personnel to their work sites. Residents of the island settlement are afraid to leave their homes.
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#1198852019-02-11
The Green New Deal offers radical environmental and economic change
The revival of the Green New Deal framework (first developed in a report published in 2008) and popularized by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats in the US, is a huge advance for green campaigners, and hopefully, for our threatened species. That is because it has a single radical ask ...
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#1198862019-02-11
Climate Change Seen as Top Threat in Global Survey
Climate change is seen as the biggest international threat facing many nations, according to a 26-country survey released by the Pew Research Center on Sunday.
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#1198872019-02-11
Harrison Ford delivers apocalyptic climate change warning
Harrison Ford delivered a stark warning about climate change as he prepared to travel to Dubai to discuss ocean conservation.he Star Wars and Indiana Jones actor, 76, is one of the most high-profile speakers at this year’s World Government Summit, which begins on Sunday. He said that climate cha ...
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#1198882019-02-11
Allison Hanes: Quebec students poised to strike over climate change
It is with this mix of emotions that many young Quebecers regard the future. But it’s not so much their individual futures that are the source of worry; it’s their collective future. Or rather, our collective future as humans on a planet that is rapidly warming.
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#1198892019-02-11
Climate Change: All Coldest years on Earth occurred almost a century ago
The Earth has been warming up to quite an extent for the longest time. In fact, out of the last 19 years, 18 have been the warmest ever recorded, which does sound like a big deal with the present buzz of ice melting around Antarctica and Greenland. - See more at: https://www.skymetweather.com/co ...
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#1198962019-02-11
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'
Environmental and social problems could interact in global breakdown, report says. The gathering storm of human-caused threats to climate, nature and economy pose a danger of systemic collapse comparable to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report that calls for urgent and radical re ...
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#1199142019-02-12
There's 'no place on the planet' – not even Hawaii – to escape climate change, experts say
When it gets cold every winter, Hawaii becomes an increasingly popular retreat. But climate experts in the Aloha State told USA TODAY on Monday that tourists cannot escape climate change – not even on the islands, where 60-foot waves and wind gusts up to 191 mph were part of a fierce weekend sto ...
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#1199382019-02-14
Headteachers in a bind as pupils prepare to go on UK climate strike
School leaders are having to wrestle with their consciences over pupils joining the nationwide climate strike to be held on Friday afternoon, caught between their duties as teachers and instincts as educators.
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#1199392019-02-14
UBC studying past volcanic activity in B.C. for glimpse into climate change future
Scientists are trying to reconstruct what the environment and climate of southwest British Columbia looked like over the past two million years by studying volcanoes that erupted under the glaciers.
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#1199402019-02-14
With Climate Change, Washington, D.C. Will Feel More Like Arkansas by 2080
The threat of climate change is big, yet nebulous enough that it can be easy to ignore despite mounting evidence that humanity faces a future with more extreme heat waves, floods, drought and food shortages. Those hazards may just affect someone else. But a new study aims to make the effects per ...
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#1199412019-02-14
Climate change increases potential for conflict and violence
Images of extensive flooding or fire-ravaged communities help us see how climate change is accelerating the severity of natural disasters. The devastation is obvious, but what is not as clear is the indirect effect of these disasters, or more generally of rapid climate change, on violence and ag ...
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#1199422019-02-14
Drink salty water or go thirsty – Climate change hits Tanzanian school children
The students at Kingani school in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo used to have two choices for drinking water at school: get sick or remain thirsty.Rising sea levels, increased drought and reduced or erratic rainfall made the drinking wells so salty it would cause headaches, stomach aches and ulc ...
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#1199432019-02-14
Italy Is About to Run Out of Olive Oil — and Climate Change May Be to Blame
Olive oil can already be a luxury item, with artisanal varieties commanding upwards of $50 a bottle. But prices of the cooking staple could rise across the board as climate change and extreme weather affects olive harvests worldwide.
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#1199442019-02-14
The Heart Of Climate Change: New ESA Image Shows 'Island Love' Under Threat
Consider this picture a love letter — from Planet Earth. Just in time for Valentine's Day, this cute new "island love" space image shows the heart-shaped island of Moorea in French Polynesia. But the picture also stands as a stark symbol of climate change, the European Space Agency says.
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#1199542019-02-15
Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK have taken part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.
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#1199552019-02-15
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall?
I stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on ...
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#1199562019-02-15
Climate strike: Why are students striking and will it have an impact?
Are the UK's school strikes for climate change the moment that British youth finally wakes up to the "climate emergency"? It may not represent a paradigm shift just yet, but the speed and scale of this young person's movement does make it feel more than a momentary splutter of impotent anger.
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#1199582019-02-15
'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes
Greta Thunberg is hopeful the student climate strike on Friday can bring about positive change, as young people in more and more countries join the protest movement she started last summer as a lone campaigner outside the Swedish parliament
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#1199652019-02-15
Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour
The Blue Planet is to get a little bluer as the world warms and climates change. Where the seas turn green, expect an even deeper verdant tint, new research suggests.
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#1199832019-02-18
Climate change must be a priority for world leaders
Experts in climate change and global security threats have long seen climate change as a future risk factor. Today, however, it is clear that climate change poses an immediate security threat to countries around the world. It is no longer a “someday” threat; it is a “right now” threat.
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#1199842019-02-18
How sci-fi could help solve climate change
As early as 1905, nearly 50 years before the first photovoltaic cell was put to use, the women of “Ladyland” were thriving on solar energy.
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#1199852019-02-18
Climate Change Isn’t Just Frying the Planet—It’s Fraying Our Nerves
Over the last year, Rebecca, a 35-year-old woman living in Washington, DC, had been losing sleep over the seemingly endless flow of apocalyptic environmental news. She fretted about the Trump administration’s loosening of emissions regulations and the United Nations’ dire predictions about clima ...
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#1199862019-02-18
Japan's opportunity to take a leadership role on climate change
The time is right for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to assume an even greater global leadership role on climate change as it has done successfully for regional trade liberalization.
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#1199872019-02-18
How climate change can make catastrophic weather systems linger for longer
Many parts of Australia have suffered a run of severe and, in some cases, unprecedented weather events this summer. One common feature of many of these events – including the Tasmanian heatwave and the devastating Townsville floods – was that they were caused by weather systems that parked thems ...
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#1199882019-02-18
Designing cities for climate change
PhD student Amin Rastandeh from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture has proposed a new way of using Wellington’s natural topography to help improve human health and address the impacts of climate change.
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#1200002019-02-18
Everything you need to know about climate change in 90 seconds
5 Live is exploring everything about climate change as part of its Cool Planet season. You’ll have heard phrases like carbon footprint and carbon neutral but what do they mean?
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#1200032019-02-18
Sharp rise in methane levels threatens world climate targets
Dramatic rises in atmospheric methane are threatening to derail plans to hold global temperature rises to 2C, scientists have warned.
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#1200102019-02-19
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
The scientist Wallace Smith Broecker, who raised early alarms about climate change and popularised the term “global warming”, has died was 87.
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#1200112019-02-19
Hydropower dams can help mitigate the global warming impact of wetlands
Every few years, a cyclone hits Mozambique’s Sofala province. The Pungwe River floods and severs road connections between Zimbabwe and coastal ports, sometimes for months. After a few weeks, the standing water starts to bubble as flooded vegetation decays. This ‘marsh gas’ is methane, a greenhou ...
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#1200172019-02-19
Land use delays could hamper climate efforts
Global climate change targets are unlikely to be met because of delays in changes to land use, Edinburgh researchers say.Efforts to make land management less damaging to the climate need to be stepped up if high levels of climate change are to be avoided, scientists say.
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#1200222019-02-19
Climate change: Winters of future will be colder -- and also warmer
Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Global warming will bring milder winter weather to much of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America. But some climate scientists predict those balmy winter days will be more frequently interrupted by extreme cold.
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#1200312019-02-20
Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.
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#1200322019-02-20
Academic: Very Few Climate Change Doubters, Issue Now Action
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) — A prominent American economist says there are "very few" individuals left who still doubt climate change because the evidence of its impact is clear.
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#1200332019-02-20
The US debate on climate change is heating up
Might the US move from being a laggard to a leader in tackling global climate change?
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#1200432019-02-21
‘No Way to Defend Ourselves Against the Onslaught of Climate Change’
PARAMARIBO, Feb 21 2019 (IPS) - Two of the most prominent women in the Caribbean nation of Suriname are speaking out about developed countries that release large volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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#1200452019-02-21
Greta Thunberg tells EU: your climate targets need doubling
Swede, 16, says EU cannot just ‘wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge’
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#1200532019-02-21
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
Report says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
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#1200562019-02-21
Why does the UN focus on climate-related security risks?
The climate crisis as a multifaceted threat to human security
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#1200692019-02-22
Conservation in a heating world
AS HOMO SAPIENS settles, criss-crosses and harvests ever larger swathes of the Earth, other species are being squeezed.