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#1322952022-01-04
Agricultural and industrial sources as the main cause to the soaring atmospheric methane
In a paper published in National Science Review, an international team of scientists evaluated scenarios about what is causing methane concentrations to rapidly increase in the atmosphere.
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#1209772019-05-08
Aid funding must recognise climate change emergency, say MPs
‘Extreme, huge, and existential’ threat posed by climate change must be a central consideration when distributing aid
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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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#1250112020-04-08
Airlines lobby to rewrite carbon deal in light of coronavirus
Airlines are lobbying to rewrite the rules of a global agreement designed to tackle aviation emissions, with the coronavirus outbreak expected to make its targets tougher to meet.
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#1205922019-04-01
Al Roker travels to the Arctic for firsthand look at climate change
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. And scientists studying global warming are trying to learn why.That’s why Al Roker headed to Utqiagvik, Alaska, considered ground zero for climate change, and learn from the scientists gathering critical information there that could help sav ...
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#1268732021-02-04
Alarming rise in global temperatures
The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on 15 January. The year 2020 was 1.2°C above pre-industrial era (1880) temperatures.
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#1209332019-05-03
Alaska's indigenous people feel the heat of climate change
The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak.
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#1338652022-03-31
Allergy season is getting worse. Why climate change is to blame
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you are well aware the dreaded season is underway, and for many, it’s another bad year. According to medical experts, the allergy season has been getting worse.
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#1273412021-02-25
Allergy season starts earlier each year due to climate change and pollen transport
Allergy sufferers are no strangers to problems with pollen. But now - due to climate change - the pollen season is lasting longer and starting earlier than ever before, meaning more days of itchy eyes and runny noses
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#1269312021-02-09
Allergy season starts earlier, lasts longer, gets worse with climate change
When Dr. Stanley Fineman started as an allergist in Atlanta, he told patients they should start taking their medications and prepare for the drippy, sneezy onslaught of pollen season around St. Patrick's Day. That was about 40 years ago. Now he tells them to start around St. Valentine's Day.
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#1190172018-12-13
Alliance pledges to step up efforts at UN climate change talks
The UN climate talks have received a much-needed injection as they enter their final hours, with an alliance of 27 countries promising to step up efforts to tackle climate change under the Paris agreement.
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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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#1228882019-11-06
Almost 13,000 Dublin homes will be affected by climate change – EPA
Almost 13,000 homes in Dublin City are predicted to be affected by extreme coastal flooding if climate change continues at its current pace, the head of the environment watchdog has said.
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#1334122022-02-22
Almost 15,000 ‘ghost flights’ have left UK since pandemic began
Almost 15,000 “ghost flights” have departed from the UK, according to newly revealed official figures. The ghost flights, defined as those with no passengers or less than 10% of passenger capacity, operated from all 32 airports listed in the data.
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#1319232021-11-24
Alpine Space: Call for projects on decarbonisation, circular economy and biodiversity
The European Commission and Switzerland are issuing a call for projects for the 2021-2027 Alpine Space programme. The call will run until 28 February 2022. The aim of the programme is to enable Alpine regions to become climate neutral, enhance their competitiveness and to equip themselves to add ...
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#1216972019-07-25
Alpine climbing routes crumble as climate change strikes
High up in the natural wonder of the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days among the rockfaces and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are falling down around them.
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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.