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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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#1339472022-04-06
Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen?
A mid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement.
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#1339482022-04-06
The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead
It was once the pinnacle of humanity’s climate ambitions. A new UN-led climate report essentially concedes that it’s out of reach. The world’s most ambitious climate goal—to keep the planet’s average temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above its preindustrial level—is still tec ...
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#1339492022-04-06
Could Climate Change Lead To The Next Black Plague?
Barbados, Apr 6: Rodents are well known reservoirs of disease, and our lives will increasingly intersect as our shared environment warms.
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#1339102022-04-01
Climate change is everywhere in the story of a mounting global food crisis
Since Russia's war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage.
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#1339112022-04-01
Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns
Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in spring - and the results might apply to other butterfly species too.
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#1339122022-04-01
How to Convince People to Leave Homes at Serious Risk From Climate Change
Nearly 100 million Americans live on the coasts, and they are continuing to move there at high rates. In fact, the coastal population has grown by more than 15 percent since 2000—faster than the rest of the country—and the population of coastline counties in the Gulf of Mexico region increased b ...
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#1339132022-04-01
Can carbon markets supercharge nature-based solutions to climate change?
Market economics have done much to c ause the climate crisis. But can they help solve it? Carbon markets and sustainable finance taxonomy are two rapidly growing market mechanisms that promise a surge in climate finance and a simultaneous decline in greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1339142022-04-01
Climate change: A look at some extreme temperatures recorded worldwide
The World Meteorological Organisation has declared 2021 as one of the seven warmest years on record. The story so far: In March, parts of eastern Antarctica recorded extremely high temperatures that were around 30 degrees Celsius above normal, sounding alarm bells for rapidly progressing climate ...
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#1339152022-04-01
More people may be hospitalized with low sodium levels due to climate change
The human body needs sodium for various body functions — from conducting nerve impulses to regulating heart rate, digestion, brain activity, and blood pressure.
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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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#1338662022-03-31
The Razor's Edge of A Warming World
As we hurtle toward an ever-hotter future, GQ spotlights eight places whose very identities depend on a simple calculation: If we limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, these places could be saved. In a 2-degree scenario, they would be irredeemably lost.
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#1338672022-03-31
What Impact does Climate Change have on Our Health?
Climate change is caused mainly by human activity subsequent to the Industrial Revolution, a major part due to fossil fuel use, and secondly due to changes in land use.
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#1339022022-03-31
Destination Earth – new digital twin of the Earth will help tackle climate change and protect nature
Today, the Commission has launched together with partnering organisations the Destination Earth initiative to help tackling climate change. Supported with an initial €150 million from the Digital Europe Programme until mid-2024, the goal is to develop a highly accurate digital model of the Earth.
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#1339042022-03-31
One Question: “What Should Be Done to Address Climate Change?”
We must protect our natural spaces. From wilderness to local parks, preserving more green space and water will help us fight the climate crisis—and bring health benefits to communities, conserve vulnerable wildlife and plant species, diversify and grow local economies, and provide more people ac ...
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#6210World Meteorological Day: "Early Warning and Early Action. Hydrometeorological and Climate Information for Disaster Risk Reduction"
23 March 2022, Geneva, Switzerland
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#6163Fifty-sixth session of the IPCC (IPCC-56) and WGIII AR6 Approval Plenary (WGIII-14)
21 - 25 March 2022, TBD
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#1337842022-03-08
How can innovation help turn climate emergency declarations into real actions?
Dr Xander Wang, Associate Professor at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, is leading the Climate Smart Lab to innovate smart technologies supporting climate change adaptation at regional and local scales.
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#1337852022-03-08
Shocking climate change records from 2021 we can't ignore
There is no denying it: 2021 was an alarming year for the planet. From apocalyptic storms to deadly floods, a deluge of extreme weather shook the world.
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#1337882022-03-08
Washington Wineries Considering Dramatic Changes for Climate Change
Dick Boushey has been growing wine grapes in Yakima and Benton counties for more than 40 years. The 70-year-old Boushey and his employees grow 23 grape varieties on vineyards stretching over 295 acres.
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#1337892022-03-08
Climate change will fuel greater displacement
For the first time, there is high confidence among scientists that the impacts of climate change are increasingly driving displacement in all regions of the world.
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#1337392022-03-07
The services nature provides are at risk in a hot world
Climate change is unravelling ecosystems and has caused widespread local population extinctions among plants and animals, according to a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the effects of global warming, species adaptation and their vulnerability.
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#1337482022-03-07
Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle
Rising global temperatures have shifted at least twice the amount of freshwater from warm regions towards the Earth's poles than previously thought as the water cycle intensifies, according to new analysis.
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#1337632022-03-07
Heat-related deaths ‘will rise by 42% in England’ if temperature rises 2C, scientists warn
Deaths directly related to temperature will soar by 42% if the world's climate warms by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned
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#1336862022-03-03
IPCC report details catastrophe for planet as threats from climate change mount
Many natural landscapes are at the point of no return, and without action on climate change the planet will become unliveable.
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#1336912022-03-03
Tasmania records driest summer in 40 years as La Niña ‘swings the wind around’
While Queensland and New South Wales have been hit with historic rainfall and floods, Tasmania has endured its driest summer in 40 years.
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#1336922022-03-03
‘We are doing our best’: rescuers fear for animals injured in NSW and Queensland floods
The flood disaster in New South Wales and Queensland has prompted concerns for ground-dwelling animals that can become trapped in their habitat or swept into other environments.
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#1336942022-03-03
Climate change: Why it is now or never for India
The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has painted a bleak picture for India, warning that the South Asian country could face multiple climate change-induced disasters in the next two decades.
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#1336972022-03-03
How can climate finance reach war zones and help to build peace?
Climate change often hits the poor hardest and is felt most profoundly in fragile and conflict-affected settings, which suffer high vulnerability and low investments in coping capacity and adaptation.
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#1336982022-03-03
What the IPCC Report tells us about the need for radical climate action
In November 2021, COP26 concluded in Glasgow, Scotland, with the adoption of the Glasgow Climate Pact – a commitment to reach a global net-zero emissions target by 2050. Central to the pact is keeping a 1.5℃ global warming target within reach. Glasgow achieved some progress, but estimates sugges ...
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#1336352022-03-02
On land and sea, climate change causing 'irreversible' losses: UN
Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans.
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#1336362022-03-02
We Are Changing Climate Faster Than We Can Adapt, New IPCC Report Warns
Humans are changing the climate too rapidly for nature to keep up, according to a new United Nations (UN) report released on Monday. Unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly slashed, both humans and wildlife will no longer adapt to the dangers of a warming planet.
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#1336372022-03-02
UN report could change the conversation on ‘loss and damage’ at November’s climate negotiations
Climate solutions often fall into two major categories: actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help stabilize the climate, collectively known as “mitigation,” and actions that reduce risks to human life, ecosystems, and economies from the effects of climate change, or “adaptation.”
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#1336412022-03-02
Terrawatch: how carbon-eating rocks could help fight climate crisis
In the not too distant future we’re probably going to have to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to address the climate emergency. Most carbon capture and storage methods involve injecting gaseous or dissolved carbon dioxide into underground reservoirs, but there is always a niggling wor ...
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#1336502022-03-02
Lack of early warning systems for extreme weather 'leaves millions at risk'
A lack of extreme weather early warning systems means millions of lives are at risk in climate-vulnerable communities in the global South, climate scientists warn in a landmark report.
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#1336512022-03-02
UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse
Although Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, the continent has suffered some of the world's heaviest impacts of climate change, from famine to flooding.
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#1336522022-03-02
UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
The walls of Saifullah's home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year—some more than four feet from the damp dirt floor.
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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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#1336092022-03-01
Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought
The negative impacts of climate change are mounting much faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United Nations climate panel.
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#1336102022-03-01
Rising danger, crippling costs: Climate change report a grim warning for Canada
The impacts of climate change are piling up faster and faster, hurting people around the world and costing Canada billions of dollars in damages from wildfires in the West to reduced seafood harvests in the East, says a new report from the world’s top global warming research body.
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#1336112022-03-01
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world
The threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”, says the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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#1336172022-03-01
IPCC report says climate change is causing dangerous disruption to nature
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have played a leading role in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
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#1336242022-03-01
Climate Crisis: Health, Cities, Biodiversity—Key Takeaways from IPCC’s Report on Impact, Adaptation and Vulnerability
At present, 1.5°C and 2°C are the two figures that seem to determine the planet’s future! These represent warming scenarios, and breaching these thresholds could undermine our ability to build a liveable and sustainable future for all. Unmitigated warming would turn Earth inhabitable for humans ...
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#1335562022-02-28
This climate crisis report asks: what is at stake? In short, everything
“A liveable and sustainable future for all”. It is the very last words of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that spell out what is at stake. In short, it is everything.
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#1335582022-02-28
Impact of climate crisis much worse than predicted, says Alok Sharma
The impacts of the climate crisis are proving much worse than predicted, and governments must act more urgently to adapt to them or face global disaster, the UK president of the UN climate talks has warned on the eve of a landmark new scientific assessment of the climate.
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#1335592022-02-28
Climate change: IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming
Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply "irreversible" according to the UN's latest assessment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that humans and nature are being pushed beyond their abilities to adapt,
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#1335662022-02-28
People, planet are 'getting clobbered by climate change,' UN report says
As the world follows news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine this week, a group of international scientists are warning that the world can't lose sight of another major threat: climate change.
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#1335672022-02-28
Humanity unprepared for impacts of climate change, UN report says
Climate scientists have long warned that the world is not on track to prevent the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels – a best-case threshold specified by the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
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#1335682022-02-28
WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas addresses IPCC report launch
Today we are releasing the second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment report. WMO is proud to be the co-hosting and founding organization of the IPCC. The physical science basis report was published in August, today we are talking about the already very visible ...
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#1335692022-02-28
Climate change: a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet. Taking action now can secure our future
Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks.