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#1203192019-03-12
Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?
The world's nations are nowhere near to meeting the global Paris Agreement's goals on climate change of holding global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius compared to 19th-century averages, much less its more aspirational goal of holding temperatures to a 1.5°C rise.
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#1203202019-03-12
Tracking Regional Climate Change from Pole to Pole
Generations of scientists have grown up learning about the polar regions of Earth and the long history of exploration and study of these extreme environments by pioneering researchers who pushed far beyond the geographic boundaries of their time.
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#1203212019-03-12
Climate change protests to be staged across Ireland on Friday
More than 21 protest events are to be staged across the country on Friday coinciding with school strikes for action on climate change, which will be attended by thousands of pupils, according to some of the organisers.
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#1203222019-03-12
Climate change poses risk to Australia's financial stability, warns RBA deputy governor
A deputy governor of Australia’s central bank has issued a stark warning that climate change poses risks to financial stability, noting that warming needs to be thought of by policymakers and business as a trend and not a cyclical event.
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#1203232019-03-12
Climate change threatens rainfall for agriculture
A new study suggests climate change will significantly alter rainfall patterns for key agricultural regions, but the worst effects could be mitigated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1203242019-03-12
Climate change is making springtime weird. Vivaldi's music shows how.
Dear Sara, I would like to read your prediction of the effects of climate change on the traditional four weather seasons.From a lifestyle preference, it has been nice for me to know that in the summer, there will be the warmth of the ocean.
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#1203362019-03-13
Enough scandalous time-wasting on climate change. Let's get back to the facts
Over the past 30 years I have reported so many broken climate policy promises and quoted so much rhetoric that proved to be hollow, it is difficult to trace it back to the start. I think it’s a faded press release from 11 October, 1990 headed “government sets targets for reductions in greenhouse ...
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#1203392019-03-13
Students are striking for action on climate change — a truancy everyone should applaud
Consider this a note explaining why one of us will be absent from school on March 15 — and why everyone else should applaud this truancy.
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#1203402019-03-13
One Planet Summit climate change talks to take place in Kenya
Kenya and Africa, will for the first time, host the third One Planet Summit on March 14 in Nairobi, making history while also making a crucial point about climate change.
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#1203582019-03-13
Impact of climate change on nature, animals and people – a view
The glaciers are shrinking around the world – and at a rapid pace. The latest study of the international glacier-a team of researchers, under the leadership of the ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal research Institute for forest, snow and landscape is alarming.
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#1203692019-03-14
Climate change: The essential guide for both young and old
Our climate has shaped life on Earth for thousands of years. A combination of “the atmosphere, oceans, lands, ice and the life on our planet acting in concert under the power of the sun” creates the climate where we live.
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#1203732019-03-14
Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel peace prize
Greta Thunberg, the founder of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, just before the biggest day yet of global action.
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#1203772019-03-14
This map shows how climate change affects extreme weather around the world
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.
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#1203792019-03-14
Climate strikes: why we scientists are getting involved
Young people are on a climate strike, and researchers are supporting their cause. Reto Knutti of Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology ETH discusses an unexpected turn in the climate change debate and the role of science in society.
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#1203852019-03-15
Climate strike: Greta Thunberg calls for ‘system change not climate change’ – here’s what that could look like
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, is calling for system change. At a press conference in Brussels, she told the European Commission that in order to fight climate change we need to change our political and economic systems – a message that has been repeated on signs and i ...
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#1203862019-03-15
Climate strikes: students around the world walk out to demand change – live
From Denmark to the Philippines, students have been telling us why today is so important. Anna Raadshøj, 18, from Vejle in Denmark said we must act now: “We’re singing songs together, marching together and writing letters to the Danish government. We can’t wait 30 years in the future before we t ...
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#1203872019-03-15
Global warming: Children's climate strike spreads worldwide
Thousands of schoolchildren worldwide have abandoned classrooms for a day of protest against climate change. India, South Korea, Australia and France are among the countries where teenagers are already on strike.
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#1203882019-03-15
Fridays for Future: Students hold international climate change protests
A global school strike against climate change inaction is underway. Protests have taken place or will do so in more than 100 countries, all following the example of one young Swedish climate activist.
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#1203892019-03-15
Thank you, climate strikers. Your action matters and your power will be felt
I want to say to all the climate strikers today: thank you so much for being unreasonable. That is, if reasonable means playing by the rules, and the rules are presumed to be guidelines for what is and is not possible, then you may be told that what you are asking for is impossible or unreasonable.
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#1203902019-03-15
A manifesto for tackling the climate change crisis
We’re the UK Student Climate Network. We’re young, we’re students and we’re calling for change. Our movement started in February when tens of thousands of young people took to the streets in towns and cities around Britain, in an unprecedented emergence of a youth climate justice movement.
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#1203912019-03-15
Facing the Climate Crisis: A Conversation With David Wallace-Wells
In 2017, David Wallace-Wells, a writer at New York magazine, published an article about global warming and Earth’s apocalyptic future. The article went viral, but climate scientists found it alarmist; after the devastating climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wa ...
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#1203922019-03-15
Kenyatta Affirms Commitment to Achieve 10% Minimum Forest Cover
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta had affirmed Kenya's commitment to achieve a minimum of 10 per cent forest cover by 2022 as part of the country's efforts to address the challenge of climate change.
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#1203972019-03-15
$2M project aims to spark new thinking on climate change
Earth’s climate is changing and urgent action is needed to address that reality, says a Royal Roads University professor. “We are already locked into a certain amount of climate change,” Robin Cox, an expert in disaster response and planning, said in an interview.
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#1204052019-03-18
Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West
New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West – affecting birds that use these wetlands for breeding, migration and wintering.
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#1204062019-03-18
Climate change putting entire North Atlantic ecosystem at risk, says oceans conference organizer
It's hard to look at the future of the North Atlantic without acknowledging the dramatic impact climate change will have on the ecosystem, says one of the organizers of a weekend conference on the issue.
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#1204092019-03-18
Cocoa fuel combats climate change
If you like chocolate you’ll love this: the same tree that provides your indulgent treat is helping to slow climate change, thanks to cocoa fuel.
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#1204112019-03-19
Oceans absorb almost a third of global CO2 emissions, but at what cost?
From wildfires to more extreme storms, the effects of climate change are already devastating communities around the globe. But the effects would be even worse if it weren't for the oceans, new research has confirmed.
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#1204122019-03-19
Coral Reefugees: Certain Corals Could “Outrun” Climate Change
As the planet and oceans continue to heat up, sites where coral has recently thrived are becoming less and less habitable. For instance, thanks to extreme ocean temperatures, much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered mass bleaching in 2016 and 2017 that turned parades of colorful coral int ...
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#1204132019-03-19
Our climate mitigation efforts will need to be ocean friendly
Dealing with climate change requires careful attention to impacts on water quality. Climate action could be a threat to water quality due to increased eutrophication that certain decisions entail, a new study in Nature Communications suggests.
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#1204152019-03-19
Researchers explore the effects of climate change on hunger
As the climate changes, where plants grow best is predicted to shift. Crops that once thrived as a staple in one region may no longer be plentiful enough to feed a community that formerly depended on it. Beyond where plants grow, there's also the issue of how they grow. Evidence suggests that pl ...
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#1204162019-03-19
School climate strikes: 1.4 million people took part, say campaigners
More than 1.4 million young people around the world took part in school strikes for climate action, according to environmental campaigners. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish student whose solo protest last August prompted the global movement, said: “We proved that it does matter what you d ...
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#1204172019-03-19
Climate change and human rights – Can the courts fix it?
Climate change is already threatening people’s guaranteed rights. It is affecting rights such as the rights to life and health, to food, water and housing. In the case of small island states it touches on the very right to exist. The number of climate-related lawsuits is rising worldwide – inclu ...
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#1204182019-03-19
Climate change: Water shortages in England 'within 25 years'
Within 25 years England will not have enough water to meet demand, the head of the Environment Agency is warning. The impact of climate change, combined with population growth, means the country is facing an "existential threat", Sir James Bevan told the Waterwise Conference in London.
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#1204192019-03-19
How cyclones form and why climate change not linked to Idai
With more than a 1,000 people feared dead, according Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi, Cyclone Idai appears to be the worst storm to hit southern Africa in decades.
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#1204232019-03-19
Global warming is causing twisted snowfall patterns across the Himalayas
The dreadful consequences of global warming are here to stay as weather patterns across the Himalayan region will undergo rapid climatic changes that are lethal for the biodiversity and human species. The up and down sequences of monsoons, snowfall and cold weather seem irreversible according to ...
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#1204382019-03-21
Kids to teachers: We need to talk about climate change
Last week, students around the world walked out of school to take a stand against climate inaction. In Portland, Oregon, a strike at City Hall turned into a 2-mile walk, briefly shutting down traffic across two major bridges and ending at… the skatepark? Voodoo Doughnut? Nope: the Portland Publi ...
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#1204392019-03-21
Research investigates impact of climate change on glacier-fed rivers in Peru
Remote communities in the Peruvian Andes, as well as communities downstream, depend on the water from melting glaciers and mountain ecosystems to provide them with food and power, and to support industry.
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#1204452019-03-21
Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies
Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glaciers melt. Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first ascent attempt and two-thirds of bodies are thought still to be buried in the snow and ice.
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#1204512019-03-22
Climate change: Hope in action
The climate is changing — our environment, our economy, and our health. It's time for real action: there's hope in action.Most Canadians believe climate change is happening and is caused by human behaviour, according to a 2018 survey for the Ecofiscal Commission, and 60 per cent want governments ...
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#1204522019-03-22
Climate Change Claims Its First Mammal Extinction
It’s official: Climate change has claimed its first mammal extinction. This week the Australian government declared the extinction of a tiny rodent called Bramble Cay melomys (also known as the Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rubicola).
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#1204532019-03-22
‘The trees say F you’: Why teens are cursing about climate change
Young people in Germany, Argentina, the United States, and basically everywhere walked out of school last Friday as part of the Youth Climate Strike, voicing their frustration and anger that older generations have failed to act on climate change. And their raised voices included f-bombs — lots a ...
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#1204682019-03-22
Floods show national security threat posed by climate change
The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military’s Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft.
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#1204802019-03-25
Here's what Warren Buffett thinks about climate change
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is for many people the first source to consult when it comes to the development of an investing philosophy. The billionaire investor has has never shied away from sharing his views with the public, either — and not only when it comes to sto ...
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#1204812019-03-25
6 Myths About Climate Change Debunked
Climate change can seem like a far-off distant problem. The reality, though, is that climate change is affecting us today. It’s doing this by taking many of the risks we already face naturally—floods and storms, heat and drought—and supersizing or exacerbating them. And the more carbon we produc ...
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#1204822019-03-25
Stronger hurricanes could decimate forests and accelerate climate change, warns study
When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, it left devastation in its wake. It took nearly 11 months to restore power across the island and five months to fully restore the island's main water service. Almost 3,000 people were killed, according to official estimates.
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#1204832019-03-25
Report outlines growing climate change-related threats to Great Lakes region
A team of Midwestern climate scientists has released a new report with grim predictions about the impact of climate change on the Great Lakes region. The report foresees a growing trend of wetter winters and springs, with increases in heavy rain events leading to flooding, particularly in urban ...
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#1204842019-03-25
The human devastation of climate change: Why Cyclone Idai should be a wake-up call for us all
While many politicians, world leaders and big corporations speak about the future effects of climate change, poor and impoverished nations are already struggling to battle the consequences of rising global temperatures.
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#1204852019-03-25
Sir David Attenborough vows to convince ‘blind’ Donald Trump of risk of climate change
Sir David Attenborough has faced the world’s most dangerous predators – but he could be about to take on a much tougher challenge. The veteran naturalist said that he would attempt to convince ‘blind’ Donald Trump that climate change is a real threat.
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#1204932019-03-25
How humans derailed the Earth's climate in just 160 years
Climate change might be the most urgent issue of our day, both politically and in terms of life on Earth. There is mounting awareness that the global climate is a matter for public action.
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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 ...