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#1257112020-11-16
Arsenal and United Nations to tackle climate change
Arsenal has become the first Premier League club to make a commitment to a United Nations climate innovation. The top flight side has signed the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework which aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 in accordance with the Paris Agreement.
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#1261142020-12-09
Art exhibition tells stories about kampung, climate change
The National Gallery of Indonesia has held a virtual exhibition of murals and installation art by Semarang-based artists collective Kolektif Hysteria, exploring the urban kampung of the Central Java capital city.
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#1213422019-06-18
As Cambodia swelters, climate-change suspicion falls on deforestation
As the impacts of climate change become more apparent worldwide, members of the public are connecting more weather events to the phenomenon.
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#1350672022-06-28
As Climate Change Threatens Mounting Urban Costs, Is Biomimicry The Way Forward?
It’s well established that urban environments are going to be home to the majority of the world’s population in the coming decades. While extreme weather is causing floods, droughts and wildfires, it’s also going to have significant effects on urban living.
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#1232812019-12-05
As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms
New research warns that the earth may be approaching key tipping points, including the runaway loss of ice sheets, that could fundamentally disrupt the global climate system
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#1215462019-07-11
As Climate Changes, Colombia’s Small Coffee Farmers Pay the Price
Hundreds of Colombia’s small coffee growers have stopped cultivating the bean in the face of low prices and reduced harvests linked to a shifting climate. As farmers struggle, the nation’s scientists are seeking to develop new varieties that will flourish in a changing environment.
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#1186382018-10-23
As Global Temperatures Rise, Terrestrial Plant Numbers Will Fall
Scientists have discovered that global changes such as rising temperatures and higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are causing a drop in the availability of a vital nutrient for terrestrial plants.
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#1219962019-08-22
As Oceans Warm, Tropical Corals Seek Refuge in Cooler Waters
Due to soaring temperatures, tropical coral reefs are facing a bleak future.
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#1288762021-05-27
As The World Enters Critical Climate Change Talks, Experts Say We Will Hit The Hottest Year On Record By 2025
We will likely surpass the world’s hottest year on record within the next few years, trajecting dangerously closer to the lower target of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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#1244502020-03-02
As bees feel the sting of climate change, here’s a way to let them keep buzzing
“Everyone wants honey. But no one wants the bees near them,” says 34-year-old Pune city resident Amit Godse of Bee Basket, who runs a business extricating beehives from neighbourhoods that don’t like them. Godse then relocates the beehives to wooded areas or farmlands bordering the city or sends ...
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#1189922018-12-12
As climate change bites in America’s midwest, farmers are desperate to ring the alarm
Richard Oswald did not need the latest US government report on the creeping toll of climate change to tell him that farming in the Midwest is facing a grim future, and very likely changing forever.
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#1195712019-01-24
As climate heats up, rising rainfall averages hide crop-killing droughts
Research performed in the Ethiopian highlands shows that even in years with above average rainfall, crops can be severely reduced by drought early in the growing season, when seeds must sprout and get established.
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#1268192021-02-02
As climate warms, summer monsoons to produce less streamflow
In the summer of 2019, Desert Research Institute (DRI) scientist Rosemary Carroll, Ph.D., waited for the arrival of the North American Monsoon, which normally brings a needed dose of summer moisture to the area where she lives in Crested Butte, Colo. - but for the fourth year in a row, the rains ...
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#1232832019-12-05
As he scaled world's 14 highest peaks, Nepalese climber shocked by climate change effects
(CNN)A former special forces soldier has taken the notion that "records are meant to be broken" to a whole new level.
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#1262652020-12-15
As sea ice disappears, a greener and browner Arctic emerges
Arctic sea ice has been in steep decline over the past two decades. A study of tundra shrubs published today in the journal PNAS shows that as sea ice disappears, the Arctic is becoming both greener and browner.
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#1303182021-09-07
As the Climate Changes, Where Are the Safest Places to Live?
Talent. King Mountain. Hugo. The town names — each the site of new wildfire ignitions following a lightning storm the day before — are all new to me. After I read each incident report, I head to Google maps to ask the same question that’s been on my mind for weeks: How close?
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#1227312019-10-24
As the climate changes, architects and engineers need to design buildings differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United States. Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City in 2012, inflicting nearly US$11 billion in damage to buildings. In 2014, a storm dubbed "Snowvember" dropped more than seven feet ...
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#1248902020-03-26
As the ocean warms, marine species relocate toward the poles
Since pre-industrial times, the world's oceans have warmed by an average of one degree Celsius (1°C). Now researchers report in Current Biology on March 26th that those rising temperatures have led to widespread changes in the population sizes of marine species. The researchers found a general p ...
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#1311842021-10-26
Asia had hottest year on record in 2020 – UN
Asia suffered its hottest year on record in 2020, the United Nations has said ahead of the CoP26 summit, with extreme weather taking a heavy toll on the continent’s development.
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#1221072019-09-04
Asia's growing coal use could negate global climate change progress, U.N. says
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia’s heavy and expanding reliance on coal power risks cancelling out global progress towards preventing catastrophic climate change, a top United Nations official warned on Wednesday.
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#1273402021-02-25
Asia-Pacific youth unite to fight climate change
The Asia-Pacific region is home to 60 percent of the world’s population and is one of the most vulnerable areas to the climate crisis. Many large cities like Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Jakarta, are coastal and low-lying, making them susceptible to sea level rise and extrem ...
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#1282682021-04-27
Asia-Pacific’s solarized digitalization agenda in pandemic times
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of digitalization has become central to achieving sustainability and lessening climate change.
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#1252582020-04-28
Asia’s Central Banks Must Take Climate Change Seriously
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) identified that Asia’s booming population and the rapidity of intensified natural disasters confirms climate change will have a catastrophic impact on the continent.
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#1347112022-05-25
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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#1347712022-05-31
At least 91 dead in Brazil floods and landslides with many more missing
The death toll from floods in north-eastern Brazil could rise to more than 100 after authorities in Pernambuco state confirmed 91 deaths with many more people missing.
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#1246072020-03-10
At the Glasgow climate conference, the UK could kickstart a green tech revolution
Einstein probably didn’t say “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”, but might have done had he kept tabs on the impact of the annual climate negotiations. We have now had 25 of them – the 26th Conference of the Parties (Cop26) will take place in ...
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#1295392021-07-12
At the UN, Climate Change & Security Must Be Tackled Together
Until recently, the question might have seemed like science fiction, but now it is very real. Ethiopia and Egypt are locked in an upward spiral of tensions over the Nile, as a combination of dams and shifting weather patterns pose existential risks to both countries.
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#1275462021-03-05
At virtual summit with Sweden, PM Modi says ‘climate change a priority’
Modi put spotlight on the nation’s achievements in the power sector in the recent years, and said, “India's renewable power capability has increased by 162% in the last five years.”
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#1312432021-10-28
Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding, and climate change is making them stronger
Ask people to name the world's largest river, and most will probably guess that it's the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth's largest rivers are in the sky—and they can produce powerful storms, like the ones now drenching northern California.
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#1251432020-04-17
Attacking climate change, one human story at a time
On a Tuesday evening earlier this semester, before MIT began to de-densify its campus in response to the emergence of Covid-19, 10 students stood in three small circles and took turns somberly counting to 20. They started calm and low with the number one, then gradually added volume and heartfel ...
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#1214142019-06-27
Attempts to 'erase the science' at UN climate talks
Oil producing countries are trying to "erase the science" on keeping the world's temperatures below 1.5C, say some delegates at UN talks in Bonn.
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#1235052019-12-18
Australia Is Being Ravaged by The Worst-Ever Heatwave, And That Says a Lot
Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar past 104 degrees (40 Celsius) in most of the nation's major cities, with inland areas of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia possibly eclipsing 122 degrees (50 Celsius).
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#1259312020-12-01
Australia endures hottest spring ever, with average temperatures more than 2C above average
Australia has sweltered through its hottest spring and November on record, with both the season and the month more than 2C warmer than the long-term average.
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#1209782019-05-08
Australia is being devastated by climate change. So will it swing the election?
Brisbane, Australia (CNN)"This is the climate election," declared Queensland Greens Sen. Larissa Waters at a Brisbane forum, weeks before the Australian election this month.
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#1324782022-01-13
Australia matches its hottest day on record as Western Australia town goes above 50C
Australia has matched its hottest ever reliably recorded temperature, with Onslow airport near the remote West Australian town of Onslow registering 50.7C.
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#1219072019-08-15
Australia removes climate 'crisis' from Pacific islands draft declaration
Sources say Canberra has softened language, getting rid of all but one reference to coal
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#1218712019-08-13
Australia will fund a $500m climate change package for the Pacific, PM to announce
Pacific leaders say they need more than money from Australia as they demand concrete actions to reduce emissions
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#1236212020-01-09
Australia's Fires Are Terrifying. Will They Get World Leaders to Act on Climate Change?
Families huddle on a once picturesque beach as their homes burn behind them. Baby koalas, their fur singed, cling to their mothers as they face a fiery demise. And military helicopters whomp overhead, searching the charred landscape for stragglers looking for a last-minute escape
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#1210282019-05-13
Australian islanders to lodge landmark U.N. complaint on climate change
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of indigenous people will file an unprecedented legal complaint against Australia on Monday, lawyers involved in the action said, accusing the government of breaching their human rights by falling short on its Paris climate accord pledges.
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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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#1244412020-03-02
Australian summers grow longer due to climate change: study
Australian summers are lengthening by a month or more while winters are getting shorter due to climate change, according to an analysis by a leading think tank released Monday.
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#1336532022-03-02
Australians flee floods as toll rises to 12, Sydney on alert
Floodwaters crashed into more towns on Australia's east coast as a deadly storm front barrelled south on Wednesday towards Sydney, where the main dam began to spill water.
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#1236732020-01-13
Australia’s Wildfires Might Intensify Future Climate Crises
Australia’s wildfires are burning with such intensity that they’re sparking contained, small-scale weather systems. Thunderstorms triggered by atmospheric disturbance might at first seem to offer relief in the form of raindrops, but instead, bolts of lightning can strike nearby trees and spread ...
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#1329862022-02-08
Australia’s coolest year in a decade still warmer than average, Bureau of Meteorology reports
Australia’s mean temperature last year was 0.56C warmer than the long-term average despite 2021 being the country’s coolest year in a decade.
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#1345592022-05-18
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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#1278872021-04-05
Avoiding a bitter end for coffee from climate change
I didn't start drinking coffee until this past fall. Despite working as a barista for four years, and growing up in a household that takes their coffee by IV, I just never had a taste for it. The last straw that turned my years of coffee-making knowledge into a coffee-drinking routine was starti ...
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#1258672020-11-26
Awareness on the Impact of Climate Change on the Spread of Infectious Diseases
It may be a widely-known scientific fact that infectious diseases take place and reemerge because of climate change. Still, a study which comprised involvement of the UAB that PLOS ONE published shows that about 48.9 percent of the population studied are not aware of this association.
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#1265722021-01-12
Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
Baby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier and weaker as water temperatures rise, according to a new study that examined the impact of warming oceans on embryos.
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#1242992020-02-21
Backing the trillion tree campaign to combat climate crisi
The recent explosion of interest in tree restoration has transformed the climate change conversation. Although the trillion tree campaign – 1T.org – is now in the realm of politicians and influencers (Greta Thunberg: Davos leaders ignored climate activists’ demands, 24 January), it emerged from ...
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#1217112019-07-26
Bacteria enhance coral resilience to climate change effects
Coral reefs are delicate ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to human influences such as climate change and environmental pollution.