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#1291732021-06-08
Bad news for fishing: Climate change is sucking the oxygen out of lakes, study suggests
Fish could be left gasping for air as oxygen levels plunge in the world's freshwater lakes due to climate change, a new study suggests.
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#1305142021-09-22
Bad news for pasta lovers: the effect of climate change on food staples
Domesticated maize has been shaping civilization for about 9,000 years, and still provides a big portion of the developing world’s calories. By the 2040s, though, the odds that the four countries producing nearly all global maize exports will simultaneously lose more than 10% of their crop may b ...
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#1190642018-12-17
Bamboo a solution to poverty, climate change, environmental degradation?
Climate experts and policy makers assembled at the UN Climate talks in Katowice, Poland -- 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, abbreviated as COP24 -- advocated for promoting bamboo, a fast-growing grass plant, as a solution to climate cha ...
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#1209552019-05-06
Banana disease boosted by climate change
Climate change has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows.
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#1220852019-09-03
Bananas have benefited from climate change – but they won’t in future
Climate change has been relatively kind to banana suppliers so far – but in the decades to come, friend may turn to foe.
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#1246702020-03-13
Bangladesh is already living with the consequences of climate change
“How can we go back to our town? There is nothing left there.” Noyom Tara takes a breath and looks out onto the street through the half-open door of her home, a single room made of corrugated iron in a suburb of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where she lives with her husband and son.
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#1215342019-07-10
Bangladesh is our best teacher in climate change adaptation: UN ex-chief Ban Ki-moon
Jul 10 2019 - (The Daily Star) – Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon today said Bangladesh is the best teacher in climate change adaptation.
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#1233532019-12-10
Barking up the wrong tree: what if the COP cannot deliver us from climate change?
The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an annual event that has been attracting increasing attention in recent years, as the impacts of climate change intensify and are now visible virtually to all. T
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#1249742020-03-31
Battle against climate-change requires individual action we see in fight against virus
This was a thought-provoking letter, but it falls short of the real lessons we can learn as a human race from this epidemic, because saving our environment goes well beyond what Justin Trudeau and his government can do.
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#1305872021-09-30
Battling climate change underwater: Italy opens its first 'Smart Bay'
Climate scientists have a new tool to help protect the Mediterranean Sea from the impact of climate change: Italy's first 'Smart Bay'.
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#1234802019-12-17
Bearing the Burden of Climate Change and Extinction
The questions come to me almost every day. Sometimes a friend leans in toward me with a look of pain or confusion in her eyes. I’ve come to expect the question that’s about to follow.
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#1260842020-12-08
Beavers may help amphibians threatened by climate change
The recovery of beavers may have beneficial consequences for amphibians because beaver dams can create the unique habitats that amphibians need.
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#1242112020-02-18
Bees may struggle in winds caused by global warming, study finds
A hardworking honey bee might feel aggrieved to be tricked into a garden shed to feed from a fake flower. Worse, she is blasted by a cheap household fan. And then timed to see how many fake flowers she can visit in 90 seconds.
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#1192632019-01-07
Before they disappear: Treasured UNESCO sites at risk from climate change
(CNN) — From the sinking city of Venice to the mass bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, climate change is drastically impacting some of the world's most treasured heritage sites.
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#1329372022-02-04
Beijing’s scant snow offers a glimpse at the uncertainty — and risks — of future Winter Olympics
The postcards and posters from most Winter Olympics call attention to the thick powder and ice-covered mountains we expect from winter mountain sports. But this year will be a little different.
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#1305692021-09-23
Beira: A city's fight against climate change
In 2019, Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique's port city of Beira. The city is now setting up large green areas designed to absorb future floodwaters – but entire fishing communities need to relocate.
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#1209572019-05-06
Bengal Tigers May Not Survive Climate Change
NEW DELHI — Climate change and rising sea levels eventually may wipe out one of the world’s last and largest tiger strongholds, scientists warned in a new study.
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#1346092022-05-19
Beyond Magical Thinking: Time to Get Real on Climate Change
The UN’s first climate conference took place in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and in the intervening decades we have had a series of global meetings and countless assessments and studies.
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#1266732021-01-19
Biden to 'hit ground running' as he rejoins Paris climate accords
Joe Biden is set for a flurry of action to combat the climate crisis on his first day as US president by immediately rejoining the Paris climate agreement and blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, although experts have warned lengthier, and harder, environmental battles lie ahead in his presidency.
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#1236022020-01-07
Big Tech data centers probably aren't a climate change time bomb
An International Energy Agency analysis pushes back against concerns that data centers are a ticking carbon bomb as use of web-connected devices expands.
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#1318242021-11-19
Big banks want to act on climate change — so what's stopping them?
As the dust settles from the recent UN climate summit in Glasgow, there's still plenty of debate about what was actually accomplished at COP26 and how various nations will reach the lofty environmental targets they've pledged.
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#1189372018-12-07
Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
By combining ocean models, animal metabolism and fossil records, researchers show that the Permian mass extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals unable to breathe.
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#1271652021-02-18
Bill Gates: This is what you — yes, you — can do to help prevent a climate change disaster
If humanity can successfully mitigate climate change, ”[i]t’ll be the most amazing thing mankind has ever done,” according to Bill Gates.
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#1270842021-02-15
Bill Gates: ‘Carbon neutrality in a decade is a fairytale. Why peddle fantasies?’
Bill Gates appears via video conference – Microsoft Teams, not Zoom, obviously – from his office in Seattle, a large space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Lake Washington. It’s a gloomy day outside and Gates is, somewhat eccentrically, positioned a long way from the camera, behind a la ...
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#1351792022-07-04
Billions of euros in aid for the poorest countries are being rerouted into climate finance
At the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (COP15), developed countries committed to financially supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries.
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#1269002021-02-08
Biochemical Clues Reveal How Some Corals Resist Bleaching From Climate Change That Is Killing Coral Reefs
Climate change is bleaching and killing corals, but researchers from Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are investigating how some can stand up to a warming world.
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#1344372022-05-13
Biodiversity Solutions Also Fight Climate Change
Mass extinction lurks beneath the surface of the sea. That was the dire message from a study published in April in the journal Science, which found that continuing to emit greenhouse gases unchecked could trigger a mass die-off of ocean animals that rivals the worst extinction events in Earth’s ...
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#1252362020-04-22
Biodiversity and climate change: size matters, and it depends on the region
World temperatures have reached unprecedented levels in the last years and the consequences of climate change are clearly perceptible. Glaciers are melting, the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events is increasing… In silence, biodiversity is paying the price, and a significant propor ...
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#1347472022-05-27
Biodiversity eyed as tool vs climate crisis
BIODIVERSITY protection is a major tool against climate change, advocates said during the first episode of youth-led climate webcast Stories for Better Reality titled "Biodiversity and Climate Change: Anong Konek?"
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#1186432018-10-23
Biodiversité et Climat : développer la connaissance pour accompagner la résilience
A 1,5°C par rapport à l’ère pré-industrielle, la biodiversité est déjà menacée. Il y a quelques jours, le GIEC (Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat) lançait une nouvelle alerte sur l’urgence d’agir pour réduire drastiquement nos émissions globales de gaz à effets de se ...
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#1216222019-07-18
Birds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms
More than 50 species – including the purple heron, the southern emerald damselfly and the green-jawed tube web spider – have been on the move in the UK over the past decade as climate change takes hold.
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#1304222021-09-15
Birds with bigger beaks and longer-legged shrews: Animals are evolving to cope with climate change
Animals are evolving quicker to cope with the warming climate — but where does that leave those that cannot adapt quick enough? A new study, published by Deakin University in Australia, found that birds, in particular, are developing larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temp ...
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#1187352018-10-30
Bitcoin can push global warming above 2 degrees Celsius by 2033: Study
Implementing Bitcoin at similar rates at which other technologiesNSE 1.95 % have been incorporated could alone produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by two degrees Celsius as soon as 2033, according to a study.
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#1205162019-03-26
Bivalves reveal big picture of climate change
Climate change has always left its footprint on land and in the seas where bivalves such as mussels, scallops, oysters have lived for millions of years. Their limited mobility has been to their disadvantage resulting in most of them dying in the on-site whenever major unpleasant changes occurred ...
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#1331462022-02-14
Blooming flowers, fledgling birds … the UK’s spring is early – and always will be
A blackbird feeding a fledged youngster in early January. Red campions flowering four months early. And the earliest recorded sighting of a rare beetle.
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#1321792021-12-15
Blue solution to humanity’s “code red” crisis
The heat dome over Canada’s Pacific Northwest that killed hundreds of humans and “cooked” one billion sea creatures; Europe’s catastrophic floods; and the worst wildfires in almost a decade could become our new normal.
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#1253132020-04-29
Bluer skies, less greenhouse gas. What happens after the pandemic?
Earlier this month, health care experts from across the United States gathered to address hundreds of journalists and policymakers by webinar. But their focus was not testing, nor vaccines, nor “herd immunity.” It was not even COVID-19, really. Instead, their focus was climate change.
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#1213392019-06-18
Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission
(CNN)The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing.
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#1210472019-05-14
Bold action on climate change needed now we have declared emergency
Last week, Ireland became the second country in the world, after the UK, to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency.
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#1220062019-08-27
Boreal warning: Climate change could make Canada's forest a carbon emitter
As the world's attention is focused on wildfires in the Amazon, an international group of researchers has issued a warning about fires caused by climate change and their impact on Canada's boreal forest.
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#1305462021-09-23
Boris Johnson tells UN that Cop26 must be ‘turning point for humanity’
Cop26 must be a “turning point for humanity” in just 40 days’ time, Boris Johnson has urged in a call to arms to fellow global leaders ahead of the climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1210732019-05-15
Brazil cancels another UN climate change event
RIO DE JANEIRO — After backing out of hosting the 2019 U.N. climate summit, Brazil has now canceled a United Nations climate change event that was to be held in August in the city of Salvador.
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#1189682018-12-11
Brazil should stay in Paris climate agreement - future environment minister
Brazil will use common sense in dealing with the Paris agreement, and the country has so far been responsible in preserving its vegetation, Salles says
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#1290322021-06-02
Breaking Boundaries review: Attenborough takes on climate change facts
For most of David Attenborough’s 70-odd years on television, the question of life and death has been framed in terms of predator versus prey. It is only relatively recently that his documentaries have started to address the danger of the climate crisis confronting us all.
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#1265372021-01-11
Breeding and climate change: the final report of Life Forage4Climate project
Everyday we have signs of the climate that is changing: temperatures higher than the seasonal average, extreme events such as water bombs and heat waves and agriculture pays the consequences, with droughts alternating with storms and the spread of new diseases of plants and animals and alien spe ...
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#1282922021-04-27
Brexit, climate change nothing to ‘wine’ about, say French growers
France is likely to remain the UK’s undisputed top wine supplier despite the challenges posed by Brexit, climate change and rising international competition. EURACTIV France reports.In 2020, British importers spent an amount of £733 million (€844 million) on wine from France, making the country ...
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#1289922021-06-02
Bridging the Gaps Between Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation
With the climate negotiations getting more and more intense in the light of ensuring meaningful achievements in the upcoming COP- 26 summit in Edinburgh, an event that is key to move forward the pathway towards a net zero future started in Paris, this year World Environment Day on June 5 assumes ...
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#1217502019-07-31
Britain's 10 hottest years all occurred since 2002: Met Office
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2002, in a sign of the effects of climate change, a report by the UK Met Office published on Wednesday shows.
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#1318342021-11-19
British Columbia at the epicentre of climate change-fuelled weather extremes
From dangerous heat and destructive wildfires to record breaking rainfall and catastrophic flooding, parts of British Columbia, Canada have been at the epicentre of two top-end weather extremes within the space of a few months.
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#1285632021-05-12
British Red Cross 150th anniversary essays: the case for change in a time of crisis
The British Red Cross has published a collection of essays to mark its 150th anniversary, including one on climate by Nisreen Elsaim,Chair of UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, which stresses that all countries must have an equal opportunity to influence climate negot ...