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1.5 C climate goal 'unlikely' but doable: draft UN report
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
Without such efforts, "holding warming to 1.5 C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the 21st century [is] extremely unlikely," said the 1,000-page report, pr...
Climate models underestimate cooling effect of daily cloud cycle
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers report in the journal Nature Communications Dec. 22 that models tend to factor in too much of the sun's daily heat, which results in warmer, dri...
Trump says US could 'conceivably' return to Paris climate deal
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
"Frankly, it's an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had a problem with the agreement that they signed, because, as usual, they made a bad deal," Trum...
Macron calls for Europe-China alliance on climate, Silk Road
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
Macron also called on Europe and China to team up on curbing climate change, in the face of US plans to withdraw from the Paris accord. "Our destinies are linke...
Researchers use global thermometer to track temperature extremes, droughts
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
An analysis of records from NASA's Aqua satellite between 2003 and 2014 shows that spikes in maximum surface temperatures occurred in the tropical forests of Af...
New York unveils new climate initiatives for 2018
Jan 03, 2018 (UPI)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a State of the State roll out included a broad-based agenda to address climate change by building a state economy based on clean energy and...
Droughts and ecosystems are determined by the interaction of two climate phenomena
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
The work, published this week in Nature Communications, was led by the University of Alcal de Henares. It was conducted in collaboration with the UPV/EHU, the U...
Curbing climate change
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Drawing from both social psychology and climate science, the new model investigates how human behavioral changes evolve in response to extreme climate events an...
Quarter of land will be drier under 2 C warming: study
Jan 01, 2018 (AFP)
But if we contain average warming to 1.5 C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), this will be limited to about a tenth -- sparing two-thirds of the land projected to parch ...
As cold wave sweeps N.America, Trump makes light of climate change
Dec 29, 2017 (AFP)
In the United States, the National Weather Service said that "dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills" were pummeling much of the central and eastern part...
Humidity may prove breaking point for some areas as temperatures rise, says study
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Health and economies would suffer, especially in regions where people work outside and have little access to air conditioning. Potentially affected regions incl...
BHP defends climate positions and Paris support
Dec 19, 2017 (UPI)
In a review of its relationship with industry associations like the World Coal Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, BHP Billiton, the largest mining an...
UCI scientists unveil new satellite-based global drought severity index
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Relying on data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission, the index adds terrestrial water storage (groundwater) to drought assessments, augm...
Space Climate Observatory agreed ahead of One Planet Summit in Paris
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
At an event in Paris, the UK Space Agency signed up to the global agreement to improve long-term sustainability and accessibility of climate data captured by sa...
Investors turn back on fossil fuels at Paris climate summit
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Two years to the day since 195 nations sealed the Paris Agreement to avert worst-case-scenario climate change, banks and companies announced billions of dollars...
Leaders join France's Macron to discuss climate cash crunch
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Without trillions of dollars of investment in clean energy, the pact's goal to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-i...
'We're losing the battle', Macron tells Paris climate talks
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
"We're not moving fast enough, that's the problem," Macron told the One Planet Summit called to boost the 2015 Paris climate accord, which US President Donald T...
World's space agencies propose setting up climate observatory
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
On the eve of the One Planet Summit organised in the French capital, the space agencies' chiefs met to discuss climate monitoring from space, including such are...
France's nuanced record fighting climate change
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
However, France's record on the environment is more nuanced, including both innovative measures and trouble building momentum in its actions to cut greenhouse g...
Climate summit: The greening of international finance
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
New instruments have been developed to help mobilise financing for projects to mitigate climate change, some of which have caught on, but measuring their impact...
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