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#1205102019-03-26
We know climate change is a problem, so now what?
New Zealanders overwhelmingly believe climate change is real, and put the responsibility to address it on the shoulders of business, according to new research.
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#1205112019-03-26
Can Soil Microbes Slow Climate Change?
With global carbon emissions hitting an all-time high in 2018, the world is on a trajectory that climate experts believe will lead to catastrophic warming by 2100 or before. Some of those experts say that to combat the threat, it is now imperative for society to use carbon farming techniques tha ...
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#1205122019-03-26
Climate Change and Migration Project Launched to Protect, Empower Pacific Communities
Suva – IOM and key partners launched a three-year regional project in Suva, Fiji today (26/03) to help Pacific Island governments to address multi-faceted challenges associated with climate change and disaster-related migration, displacement and planned relocation in the region.
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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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#1205182019-03-26
Climate change denial is evil, says Mary Robinson
The denial of climate change is not just ignorant, but “malign and evil”, according to Mary Robinson, because it denies the human rights of the most vulnerable people on the planet.
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#1205282019-03-27
Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm
After years of struggling through summer heat and wildfire smoke, farmers in Washington are building their own, cooperatively run, future.Our climate is changing, and our approaches to politics and activism have to change with it.
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#1205292019-03-27
Climate change threatens Māori plant use
Plants may expand or shift their range as global temperatures continue to rise, but if they become inaccessible to the people who use them, ancient biocultural connections could be lost, a leading researcher has warned.
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#1205302019-03-27
Climate Change Matters for Real Estate — Just Not the Way You Might Think
Climate change will affect coastal businesses. But don’t bet on it hurting their landlords.Analysts have spent years warning that the costs of climate change will pile up for real estate investors, as rising sea levels cause severe weather and flood damage.
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#1205312019-03-27
A reading list on women and climate change
Women face disproportionate harm from climate change, but they can also help their communities become more resilient. The challenges posed by climate change cannot be met without also addressing gender issues.
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#1205322019-03-27
Irish SMEs believe they can do more to tackle climate change
Irish firms believe they have a role in tackling climate change but highlight the lack of time and funding as the biggest obstacles, according to a survey by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).
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#1205332019-03-27
AOC obliterates claim that fighting climate change is 'elitist' in stirring speech
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's signature Green New Deal may not have gained enough votes in the Senate on Tuesday, but that hasn't stopped a stirring speech of hers from going viral. The New York Congresswoman spoke on Tuesday at a House Financial Services Committee meeting, slamming the idea that t ...
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#1205342019-03-27
Colder temperatures foster greater microbial diversity on amphibian skin
A far-reaching global study led by University of Colorado Boulder scientists has found that climate is a critical determinant of microbial diversity on amphibian skin, with colder, more variable temperatures producing richer bacterial communities than warmer, more stable environments.
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#1205392019-03-27
Climate change: Drilling in 'Iceberg Alley'
It sounds a bit like sitting in the middle of the road when there's a queue of juggernauts coming straight at you.This is a little overplayed but it's kind of what an international group of scientists has just set out to do.
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#1205422019-03-28
Should we stop eating meat to fight climate change?
Tiffany Stair became a vegan about two years ago. “All through my life, I ate meat three times a day, if not more. I love the taste of it.”
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#1205432019-03-28
Anguilla’s Fishers Share their First-Hand Knowledge About Climate Change and its Impact
Fishers in Anguilla saw posted on Youtube this week a video they helped produce that depicts the impacts of climate change on their industry. Titled “Anguilla’s Fishing Dilemma”, the four-and-a-half minute video highlights some of the main challenges Anguilla’s 92 licensed fishers face in earnin ...
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#1205442019-03-28
Climate change in Africa: “A race we must win and a race we will win,” African Development Bank says
Fighting climate change with robust implementation of national commitments and partnerships was the main thrust of African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, Dr. Anthony Nyong’s closing remarks at the end of Africa Climate Week.
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#1205452019-03-28
Earth Today | Rural Youths To Join Climate Change Conversation
Rural L Youths are to have the chance to get in on the conversation about climate change and Jamaica – from the threats to the opportunities for resilience building.
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#1205462019-03-28
Cyclone Idai and floods hit Southern Africa: the reality of climate change
The devastating Cyclone Idai that hit south-eastern Africa may be the worst ever disaster to strike the southern hemisphere, according to the UN. Ever-worsening storms and climate change are destroying people's lives - and the poorest are hit hardest. How can we equip them to cope with a world w ...
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#1205692019-03-29
Climate change: How green is your parcel?
It's Friday lunchtime and you've found the perfect dress for that party on Saturday night but you're stuck at your desk. No problem, because after a couple of clicks, it's in your basket and on its way to your home.
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#1205732019-03-29
Mosquito-spread diseases may endanger millions in new places due to climate change
Half a billion more people could be at risk from mosquito-transmitted diseases within 30 years as a result of the warming climate, according to a new study.
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#1205742019-03-29
Climate change impacts accelerating: WMO report
The United Nations' weather agency says extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced two million people to relocate as man-made climate change worsened.
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#1205752019-03-29
Why P.E.I. aquaculture businesses are focusing on climate change
Climate change was one of the key themes at this year's conference of the Prince Edward Island Aquaculture Alliance. That impressed one of the presenters, Sally McGee, who's with a new group in the United States called the Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition.
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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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#1205772019-03-29
Fueled by climate change, extreme weather disasters hit 62 million people in 2018, U.N. says
Extreme weather events, supercharged by climate change, affected some 62 million people around the world in 2018, the United Nations' weather agency said Thursday.
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#1205922019-04-01
Al Roker travels to the Arctic for firsthand look at climate change
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. And scientists studying global warming are trying to learn why.That’s why Al Roker headed to Utqiagvik, Alaska, considered ground zero for climate change, and learn from the scientists gathering critical information there that could help sav ...
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#1205932019-04-01
'How do I talk about climate change at social gatherings?'
I feel an urge to talk about climate change bubbling up within me at social gatherings if people talk about trivial things like food or sports for too long. But it is always such a downer and I know people need a certain amount of time to feel safe and ordinary and relaxed.
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#1205942019-04-01
Should we blame the N.W.T.'s warm March on climate change? One researcher says yes
The unusually mild weather that melted Yellowknife's snow castle and closed winter roads this March should not be seen as just an isolated case of weird weather, says a researcher who has studied the North for decades.
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#1205962019-04-01
Grisly Cave Discovery Suggests Climate Change Turned Neanderthals Into Cannibals
Their bones were discovered in a cave in Southeastern France in the 1990s. All up, six Neanderthals: two adults, two adolescents, and two children. Across Europe, there are over 200 sites that feature the ancient remains of Neanderthals such as these, but few of them tell the same grisly story t ...
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#1206002019-04-01
Climate Change, Disaster Reduction And Future Proofing – Is Enough Being Done To Preserve Water?
Research by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require fast, far-reaching and extraordinary changes.
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#1206042019-04-01
Insects have ‘no place to hide’ from climate change, study warns
Insects have “no place to hide” from climate change, scientists have said after analysing 50 years’ worth of UK data. The study found that woodlands, whose shade was expected to protect species from warming temperatures, are just as affected by climate change as open grasslands.
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#1206192019-04-02
Federal climate change report 'a strong warning,' Alberta scientist says
Alberta climate scientists say they hope a new report with a dire warning is taken seriously by Canadians. A new study, commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada, revealed that Canada is warming at twice the global rate, spelling trouble for this vast country that borders three oceans.
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#1206202019-04-02
Study highlights challenges of tackling climate change whilst improving quality of life
City planners are facing an ‘unenviable’ balancing act of tackling climate change and improving quality of life, according to new research.
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#1206212019-04-02
Did climate change cause the flooding in the Midwest and Plains?
From his home in Hampton, Iowa, Zach Van Stanley watched as the snow-covered cornfield in his backyard flooded on March 14. “It basically turned into a river in just that afternoon,” he said.
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#1206222019-04-02
Climate change threatens survival of dolphins: Study
Climate change may threaten the survival of of marine mammals such as dolphins, and have more far-reaching consequences for their conservation than previously thought, according to a study.
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#1206232019-04-02
The climate change crisis is caused by our separation from nature
Our climate change predicament is really a symptom of another, even more powerful crisis.The evolving 'climate imbalance' (perhaps a better term than climate change) is a reflection of a false sense of separation between us and the environment.
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#1206332019-04-04
Climate change: Warning from 'Antarctica's last forests'
Scramble across exposed rocks in the middle of Antarctica and it's possible to find the mummified twigs of shrubs that grew on the continent some three to five million years ago.
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#1206382019-04-04
A natural solution to the climate disaster
The world faces two existential crises, developing with terrifying speed: climate breakdown and ecological breakdown. Neither is being addressed with the urgency needed to prevent our life-support systems from spiralling into collapse.
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#1206442019-04-04
Carbon dioxide levels highest in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation
CO2 greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. During this time, global mean temperatures never exceeded preindustrial levels by more than 2 degrees C. The study is based on breakthrough computer simulations of ice age onset in E ...
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#1206482019-04-04
Is climate change fuelling political conflicts globally?
Last week, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nation’s weather agency, released its annual report, State of the Global Climate in 2018. It is alarming. The earth, the report said, is nearly 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was when the industrial age started, and extreme weat ...
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#1206492019-04-04
Antarctic: 'No role' for climate in Halley iceberg splitting
When a giant iceberg breaks away from near Britain's Halley research base, it won't be because of climate change. Scientists Jan De Rydt and Hilmar Gudmundsson have spent years studying the area and say the calving will be the result of natural processes only.
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#1206552019-04-05
U.N.: Climate change imperils 19 mil. Bangladesh children
The lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from the colossal impact of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change, according to a report by the United Nations children’s agency released Friday.
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#1206642019-04-05
Reforestation is critical to meeting Paris climate change accord targets, researchers say
Climate change experts accept that reducing greenhouse gas emissions – even doing so substantially – won’t be sufficient for limiting atmospheric warming to the 2°C (3.6°F) goal of the Paris Climate Agreement. And with carbon capture technologies years away from maturity and widespread commercia ...
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#1206682019-04-08
Climate change poses security risks, according to decades of intelligence reports
A series of authoritative governmental and nongovernmental analyses over more than three decades lays a strong foundation for concern over climate change implications for national security.
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#1206712019-04-08
Climate change impacts peatland carbon dioxide gas exchange primarily via moisture conditions
Northern peatlands store approximately one third of global soil carbon, namely around 500 gigatons. Because the peatland carbon cycling is largely controlled by partly anaerobic soil conditions, the carbon stored in these soils is extremely vulnerable to climate warming that is expected to reduc ...
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#1206792019-04-08
Antarctica team to search world's oldest ice for climate change clues
A 14-person team on a €13 million European project will head to the East Antarctica ice sheet later this year, to begin drilling an ice core several kilometres deep. Researchers will use the bubbles of carbon dioxide and other gases trapped inside ice cores to provide a window into the Earth’s p ...
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#1206812019-04-09
Climate change means nearly all glaciers in the Alps may disappear
Around 95 per cent of glaciers in the Alps will be wiped out by the end of the century if the world continues pumping out carbon emissions at the current rate. That is the stark warning from research using a more realistic way of modelling how ice will react to rising temperatures due to climate ...
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#1206842019-04-09
Earth’s recovery from climate change could take ‘millions of years’
The Earth could take millions of years to recover from the mass extinctions which are being caused by climate change, a new study has revealed.
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#1206852019-04-09
Egypt plays key role in climate change negotiations: Environment minister
Egypt's Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad said that the country is playing a crucial role in negotiations related climate change during its chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G-77) plus China and out of its commitments towards African states during its presidency of the African Union.
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#1206992019-04-09
Changement climatique : il faudra 10 millions d'années pour que la biodiversité se relève de la prochaine extinction de masse
La biosphère aura besoin de 10 millions d'années pour se remettre de l'extinction de masse en cours en raison du changement climatique, d'après une nouvelle étude parue dans . Pour rassembler ces données, des chercheurs britanniques et américains se sont penchés sur la seule extinction de masse ...
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#1207182019-04-10
Glaciers and arctic ice are vanishing. Time to get radical before it's too late
Forget “early warning signs” and “canaries in coal mines” – we’re now well into the middle of the climate change era, with its epic reshaping of our home planet. Monday’s news, from two separate studies, made it clear that the frozen portions of the earth are now in violent and dramatic flux.