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Europe climate report signals rising extremes
Apr 29, 2026 (AFP)
"The climate indicators ... are quite worrying," Mauro Facchini, a European Commission official, told journalists. The European State of the Climate report unde...
Oxford-ETH Study Pinpoints Why Regional Rainfall Forecasts Remain Unreliable as Climate Warms
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
The research, published April 29 in Nature, is based on an analysis of winter rainfall patterns across the Northern Hemisphere spanning 1950 to 2022. The team f...
France condemns effort to delay major IPCC climate report
Mar 31, 2026 (AFP)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes reports every five to seven years whose findings on the science of global warming are the benchma...
'Significant' acceleration of global warming since 2015: study
Mar 07, 2026 (AFP)
"Over the past 10 years, the estimated warming rate has been around 0.35C per decade, depending on the dataset, compared with just under 0.2C per decade on aver...
Swiss to vote on creating giant 'climate fund'
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
The climate fund initiative, launched by the Social Democratic Party and the Greens, calls for the country to spend 0.5-1.0 percent of Switzerland's annual GDP ...
Prolonged drought risks famine for millions in Somalia: ICRC
Mar 03, 2026 (AFP)
After two consecutive failed rainy seasons, there is a high risk of a return to the "catastrophic levels of hunger seen in 2022", the ICRC said in a statement. ...
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
Feb 24, 2026 (SPX)
A study of mangrove soils in the Zhangjiang Estuary of China finds that black carbon, a highly stable product of incomplete combustion from sources such as wild...
Global rock weathering model highlights path to slower warming
Feb 24, 2026 (SPX)
Enhanced rock weathering involves crushing silicate rocks into fine particles, spreading the rock dust on croplands, and allowing natural chemical reactions bet...
Ice age volcanoes linked to ancient Atlantic current shutdowns
Feb 24, 2026 (SPX)
Scientists regard the AMOC as a key element of the global climate system because its collapse could replace Northern Europe's temperate conditions with a much c...
'Climate cult' hurts Europe's economy, US energy secretary tells AFP
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
Wright is attending ministerial meetings at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) this week, months after US-European ties were rattled over Preside...
Mumbai to host Prince William's 2026 Earthshot prize
Feb 17, 2026 (AFP)
Launched in 2020, the annual prize champions what it terms "groundbreaking leadership" and cutting-edge solutions. The past five host cities were Rio de Janeiro...
Warming drives growth of Arctic peatlands
Feb 16, 2026 (SPX)
Led by the University of Exeter, the research team examined peatland cores taken from 91 locations across 12 sites in the European and Canadian Arctic. These tu...
'Unprecedented' emissions maps will hone mitigation
Feb 16, 2026 (SPX)
In a study published Feb. 13 in Nature Climate Change, researchers have synthesized data from multiple ground sources and models to map global cropland emission...
Course correction needed quickly to avoid pathway to 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists say
Feb 13, 2026 (SPX)
Published in the journal One Earth, "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory" is an analysis by an international collaboration led by Oregon State University's ...
ECB fines French bank for climate risk failures
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
"Credit Agricole did not sufficiently assess the materiality of its climate-related and environmental risks" by a deadline set after an investigation in 2024, t...
Spain must adapt to 'new climate reality', PM says after floods
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
Spain is on the front line of climate change in Europe, facing longer heatwaves and more frequent heavy rainfall -- epitomised by the October 2024 floods that k...
Climate activist group files second lawsuit against Sweden
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
The group behind the lawsuit, Aurora, first tried to sue the Swedish state in late 2022. Sweden's Supreme Court in February 2025 ruled that the complaint filed ...
Antarctic ice feedback limits Southern Ocean carbon sink
Feb 03, 2026 (SPX)
The core contains sediments spanning roughly 500,000 years and four glacial cycles. It was recovered in 2001 from nearly 5,000 meters water depth at 116 degrees...
Stable water tables help wetlands curb methane emissions
Feb 03, 2026 (SPX)
Wetlands cover only around six percent of Earths land area but hold about 30 percent of the terrestrial organic carbon pool. In Denmark, authorities plan to rew...
UN expert slams harsh sanctions on climate activists in Norway
Feb 02, 2026 (AFP)
Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, described as "highly troubling" the Norwegian supreme court rulings in December, which hande...
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