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#1261482020-12-10
Arctic Ocean: Climate Change Is Flooding the Remote North With Light and New Species
At just over 14 million square kilometres, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s oceans. It is also the coldest. An expansive raft of sea ice floats near its centre, expanding in the long, cold, dark winter, and contracting in the summer, as the Sun climbs higher in the sky.
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#1256552020-11-11
Arctic Wildlife Are Shifting Their Behaviors Due to Climate Change
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth. Across the region's 5.5 million square miles of land and ocean, wildlife species—like caribou, golden eagles, grizzly bears and whales—are adjusting their behavior to cope with the effects brought on by climate change.
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#1249882020-04-02
Arctic climate change – it’s recent carbon emissions we should fear, not ancient methane ‘time bombs’
The Arctic is predicted to warm faster than anywhere else in the world this century, perhaps by as much as 7°C. These rising temperatures threaten one of the largest long-term stores of carbon on land: permafrost.
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#1321642021-12-14
Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 38C (100F), has been officially confirmed, sounding "alarm bells" over Earth's changing climate.
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#1282122021-04-22
Arctic sizzled in 2020, the warmest year for Europe too
Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Thursday.
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#1191792018-12-21
Are We Bored With Climate Change?
As the COP24 conference on climate change wrapped up last week in Poland without any major developments, downward-trending levels of interest in the subject have raised the question of whether the public and media have become weary of discussing it.
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#1196012019-01-25
Are We Headed Toward the Worst-Case Climate Change Scenario?
A record number of Americans say they accept that global warming is happening, according to a new survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, and nearly three-quarters of them now say it's an issue that's p ...
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#1193842019-01-15
Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?
2018 was not an easy year for planet Earth. Sure, wind and solar energy kept getting cheaper, and an electric car became America’s best-selling luxury vehicle. But the most important metric of climatic health—the amount of heat-trapping gas entering the atmosphere—got suddenly and shockingly worse.
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#1240922020-02-05
Are locust outbreaks caused by climate change?
Hundreds of millions of desert locusts have swept over East Africa, destroying crops, ravaging pastures and threatening to worsen a hunger crisis in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries. The worst outbreak in decades has affected Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – and the number of locusts c ...
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#1205762019-03-29
Are our cities effectively planning for climate change?
In 2006, pioneering cities such as London (United Kingdom) and Durban (South Africa) started integrating climate change in their policies and plans in order to prepare infrastructures, communities, ecosystems and institutions for its most likely impacts.
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#1210872019-05-16
Are right-wing populists a threat to European climate policy?
Right-wing populists have been gaining support throughout Europe and many of them deny the dangers of climate change. What does that mean for the future of climate policy on the continent?
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#1236812020-01-13
Are sinking soils in the Everglades related to climate change?
Characterized by alligators, airboats, and catfish, the Everglades is a region of swampy wetlands in southern Florida. In addition to the area's role in Florida's tourism industry, the Everglades play a significant part in protecting our environment—through carbon sequestration.
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#1294322021-06-29
Are we overlooking the role of grasslands in mitigating climate change?
In 2019, black wattle trees stood tall in around 50 hectares of land in Pazhathottam in Kerala’s Pambadum Shola National Park. Black wattle, in India, is an exotic, invasive tree and here, in Pazhathottam, it had invaded the open montane grasslands that occur naturally in these higher reaches of ...
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#1195182019-01-21
Argentina and Spain scientific research on climate change impact on hake in Tierra del Fuego
Scientific study suggests snoek (Thyrsites atun) can re-colonize the marine area of the Beagle Channel and South-Western Atlantic waters, an area in the southernmost point of the South American continent where this species competed with the hake (Merluccius sp.) to hunt preys in warmer periods.
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#1333322022-02-18
Argentine environmentalists sound the alarm on climate change
Pointing to the wildfires, drought and heat waves that have marked the start of 2022 in Argentina, environmental organizations call for adaptation, mitigation and effective laws to protect the ecosystem.
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#1196772019-01-30
Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Austrian chancellor for talks ahead of climate change summit
Hollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pictured in a friendly exchange with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Tuesday after the pair met to discuss the upcoming Austrian World Summit.
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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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2010-10-26
As the World Burns: Soap Operas and Social Marketing as Tools to Combat Climate Change in the Caribbean
Small islands are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, protected areas, economies, tourism and the communities that live there. While global attention has been brought to bear on this issue, there remains a critical communications challenge: how to effectively en ...
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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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#6022Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW) - UNFCCC
24 - 28 August 2020, Yokohama, Japan
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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).