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#1259312020-12-01
Australia endures hottest spring ever, with average temperatures more than 2C above average
Australia has sweltered through its hottest spring and November on record, with both the season and the month more than 2C warmer than the long-term average.
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#1209782019-05-08
Australia is being devastated by climate change. So will it swing the election?
Brisbane, Australia (CNN)"This is the climate election," declared Queensland Greens Sen. Larissa Waters at a Brisbane forum, weeks before the Australian election this month.
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#1324782022-01-13
Australia matches its hottest day on record as Western Australia town goes above 50C
Australia has matched its hottest ever reliably recorded temperature, with Onslow airport near the remote West Australian town of Onslow registering 50.7C.
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#1219072019-08-15
Australia removes climate 'crisis' from Pacific islands draft declaration
Sources say Canberra has softened language, getting rid of all but one reference to coal
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#1218712019-08-13
Australia will fund a $500m climate change package for the Pacific, PM to announce
Pacific leaders say they need more than money from Australia as they demand concrete actions to reduce emissions
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#1236212020-01-09
Australia's Fires Are Terrifying. Will They Get World Leaders to Act on Climate Change?
Families huddle on a once picturesque beach as their homes burn behind them. Baby koalas, their fur singed, cling to their mothers as they face a fiery demise. And military helicopters whomp overhead, searching the charred landscape for stragglers looking for a last-minute escape
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#1210282019-05-13
Australian islanders to lodge landmark U.N. complaint on climate change
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of indigenous people will file an unprecedented legal complaint against Australia on Monday, lawyers involved in the action said, accusing the government of breaching their human rights by falling short on its Paris climate accord pledges.
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#1200312019-02-20
Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.
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#1244412020-03-02
Australian summers grow longer due to climate change: study
Australian summers are lengthening by a month or more while winters are getting shorter due to climate change, according to an analysis by a leading think tank released Monday.
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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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#1236732020-01-13
Australia’s Wildfires Might Intensify Future Climate Crises
Australia’s wildfires are burning with such intensity that they’re sparking contained, small-scale weather systems. Thunderstorms triggered by atmospheric disturbance might at first seem to offer relief in the form of raindrops, but instead, bolts of lightning can strike nearby trees and spread ...
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#1329862022-02-08
Australia’s coolest year in a decade still warmer than average, Bureau of Meteorology reports
Australia’s mean temperature last year was 0.56C warmer than the long-term average despite 2021 being the country’s coolest year in a decade.
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#1345592022-05-18
Australia’s tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in ‘clear and stark climate warning’
Australia’s tropical rainforest trees have being dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of global heating, according to new research that raises concerns tropical forests could start to release more carbon dioxide than they absorb.
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#1278872021-04-05
Avoiding a bitter end for coffee from climate change
I didn't start drinking coffee until this past fall. Despite working as a barista for four years, and growing up in a household that takes their coffee by IV, I just never had a taste for it. The last straw that turned my years of coffee-making knowledge into a coffee-drinking routine was starti ...
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#1258672020-11-26
Awareness on the Impact of Climate Change on the Spread of Infectious Diseases
It may be a widely-known scientific fact that infectious diseases take place and reemerge because of climate change. Still, a study which comprised involvement of the UAB that PLOS ONE published shows that about 48.9 percent of the population studied are not aware of this association.
Side Event
#2158COP 10
2010-10-26
BETTER CLIMATE SERVICES FOR THE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY COMMUNITY
A major outcome of the World Climate Conference - 3 was the proposal for the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). The side-event will describe the GFCS and how the biological diversity could benefit from it.
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#2929COP 11
2012-10-10
BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE, MANU NATIONAL PARK. PERU
The purpose of this meeting is to show the processes and mechanisms developed to involve the population in mitigating environmental and socio impacts against climate change. From local experience, develop national and subregional partnerships to address these changes. Manu National Park was dec ...
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#1265722021-01-12
Baby sharks emerge from egg cases earlier and weaker in oceans warmed by climate crisis
Baby sharks will emerge from their egg cases earlier and weaker as water temperatures rise, according to a new study that examined the impact of warming oceans on embryos.
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#1242992020-02-21
Backing the trillion tree campaign to combat climate crisi
The recent explosion of interest in tree restoration has transformed the climate change conversation. Although the trillion tree campaign – 1T.org – is now in the realm of politicians and influencers (Greta Thunberg: Davos leaders ignored climate activists’ demands, 24 January), it emerged from ...
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#1217112019-07-26
Bacteria enhance coral resilience to climate change effects
Coral reefs are delicate ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to human influences such as climate change and environmental pollution.
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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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#1452Beyond Kyoto Workshop
19 - 20 September 2003, Beijing, China
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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.
Side Event
#2582COP 11
2012-10-10
Biocultural approaches to community based adaptation and mitigation to climate change
This workshop will discuss the experiences of the Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment initiative in developing community-based biodiversity and climate change assessments to create local mitigation and adaptation responses in the context of food security and livelihoods, wi ...
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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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#2035COP 10
2010-10-21
Biodiversity and Carbon in China: Opportunities and challenges for local governments
Biodiversity in China is under immense pressure. Loss of biodiversity is much worse than previously expected due to the cumulative impact of human disturbance and climate change. To achieve sustainable development and tackle climate change, biodiversity and carbon are vital for policy forming of ...