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World leaders vow to defend climate pact after Trump pullout
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
With France's Emmanuel Macron taking the lead, they lashed Trump's decision as misguided and vowed to defend an accord they portrayed as crucial for the planet'...
Climate: What is the Paris Agreement?
Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the United States was withdrawing from the pact, which took nearly two decades of often-acrimonious haggling to con...
Cape Town cuts back to survive worst drought in 100 years
Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)
The city -- South Africa's biggest tourist hotspot -- and the surrounding Western Cape province have been declared a disaster area by the local government, with...
Climate science: Bad news gets worse
Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)
Earth's average global temperature is scaling new heights, sea ice is retreating, extreme weather events have become more frequent and species are increasingly ...
'Heat island' effect could double climate change costs for world's cities
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The study by an international team of economists of all the world's major cities is the first to quantify the potentially devastating combined impact of global ...
Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The paper published May 29 in Nature Geoscience, is the first to look at biosphere-atmosphere interactions using purely observational data and could greatly imp...
With or without Trump, US businesses moving on climate
May 31, 2017 (AFP)
Before Trump had even raised the possibility of scrapping US involvement in the landmark 2015 treaty, Coca-Cola and the engineering giant General Electric alrea...
Tiny shells indicate big changes to global carbon cycle
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
For the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists raised foraminifera - single-celled organisms about the size of a grain of sand - at the ...
As US weighs climate pullout, UN wants world to be more ambitious
May 30, 2017 (AFP)
Making his first address on climate since taking the UN helm five months ago, Guterres said it was "absolutely essential" that the world implements the 2015 agr...
Top economists urge 'strong carbon price' in climate fight
May 29, 2017 (AFP)
"A strong and predictable carbon-price trajectory provides a powerful signal to individuals and firms that the future is low carbon, inducing the changes needed...
Paris climate commitment 'crippling' to US growth: White House
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
During his election campaign, avowed climate sceptic Donald Trump promised to exit the 2015 UN pact on limiting global warming. But Trump has now said he will m...
Weathering of rocks a poor regulator of global temperatures
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published May 22 in the open-access journal Nature Communications, looks at a key aspect of carbon cycling, the process by which carbon atoms move be...
The forces that affect species' movements in a changing climate
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
As the climate gets warmer, species migrate to new regions where conditions are more tolerable, such as higher latitudes, deeper waters, or higher terrain. This...
Fossil beetles suggest that LA climate has been relatively stable for 50,000 years
May 25, 2017 (SPX)
The La Brea Tar Pits, which form one of the world's richest Ice Age fossil sites, is famous for specimens of saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and giant sloths, but...
Merkel vows to convince climate change 'doubters'
May 23, 2017 (AFP)
"Protecting the climate matters to all of us," said Merkel, whose country will host a G20 summit and UN climate talks this year. "We all feel the impacts of cli...
Trump can't stop progress on climate, says Al Gore
May 22, 2017 (AFP)
"An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" received a special screening at Cannes after premiering at the Sundance film festival in January, a decade after Gore's...
Cape Town region declares drought disaster
May 22, 2017 (AFP)
Boreholes will be drilled at hospitals in Cape Town, a popular international tourist destination, a mobile desalination plant will be tested and the natural aqu...
Hopes for climate pact shift to diplomatic sphere
May 19, 2017 (AFP)
On the campaign trail, now-president Donald Trump vowed to "cancel" the 196-nation pact to rein in global warming by curbing emissions from burning oil, coal an...
In climate talks, it's always been America first
May 18, 2017 (AFP)
As power has changed hands between Republicans and Democrats, the country has alternatively played an inspirational or obstructionist role over two decades of n...
UN climate talks wrap up under threat of US exodus
May 18, 2017 (AFP)
"We are all vulnerable and we all need to act," said Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who has repeatedly urged Donald Trump to keep America on the right...
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