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Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The cores provide insights into how the region's climate has changed over time. The researchers' results, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports,...
1.4 million children acutely malnourished in Somalia this year: UN
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
The United Nations children's agency warned that 275,000 of those children were expected to be so severely malnourished that they could easily die. Severe acute...
Cities brace for climate challenges
Apr 30, 2017 (AFP)
City temperatures are forecast to shoot up in the coming years, exposing inhabitants to killer heat spikes, while rising sea levels and river flooding threaten ...
Ethiopia drought creates food crisis for 7.7 million
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
The National Disaster Risk Management Commission said in January that failed rains would leave 5.6 million people in need of emergency food this year in three o...
US may stay in Paris climate accord, with caveats
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
But experts say the final decision, expected next month, is anything but certain, and staying at the table could come with significant caveats, like a weakening...
US should stay in Paris climate accord: energy secretary
Apr 25, 2017 (AFP)
A decision is expected by President Donald Trump next month on whether or not to stay in the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement limiting global carbon emissions, sig...
Indian minister ridiculed as bizarre drought plot backfires
Apr 24, 2017 (AFP)
Tamil Nadu state minister Sellur K Raju waded into the dam with dozens of sheets of polystyrene, convinced they could help reduce water evaporation in the droug...
UNEP chief confident US will not ditch Paris climate deal
Apr 24, 2017 (AFP)
Erik Solheim told AFP in an interview on Monday that even if the United States withdraws, China and the European Union will step in and take the lead to impleme...
In Washington, the economic world meets Trump climate skepticism
Apr 22, 2017 (AFP)
The regular meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund -- always accompanied by a gathering of G20 finance ministers -- have rung out with calls...
Proposed cuts in US climate science reverberate worldwide
Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump has called for drastic cutbacks across multiple federal agencies that track and analyse climate by gathering data from satellites, the...
In new paper, scientists explain climate change using before and after photographic evidence
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Along with Gregory Baker, adjunct professor of geology at the University of Kansas, co-authors include an Emmy Award-winning documentarian and a prominent envir...
UK Space Agency and CNES join forces to curb climate change
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
The Agency's Director of Growth, Catherine Mealing-Jones, and CNES President, Jean-Yves Le Gall, signed the MicroCarb cooperation agreement 19th April at the Fr...
Models, observations not so far apart on planet's response to greenhouse gas emissions
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
It is also one of the most hotly debated numbers in climate science. Observations in the past decade seem to suggest a value that is lower than predicted by mod...
Plants have been helping to offset climate change, but now it's up to us
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Plants are currently removing more CO2 from the air than they did 200 years ago, according to new work from Carnegie's Joe Berry and led by J. Elliott Campbell ...
Performance of the RegCM4 regional climate model over China
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, a long-term simulation was conducted with the corporation of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Cli...
How ENSO and Atlantic ADO impact East Asian winter monsoon
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
Previous studies have indicated that the Atlantic Ocean acts as a pacemaker for the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) mean state and variability. The Atlant...
Tibet sediments reveal climate patterns from late Miocene, 6 million years ago
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
These extreme weather patterns make this area an ideal location for climate scientists to study the delicate interconnected web of the global climate system. Ca...
G7 energy ministers fail to agree statement on climate change: Italy
Apr 10, 2017 (AFP)
G7 energy ministers failed to reach agreement on a joint statement on climate change on Monday after the United States expressed reservations, an Italian minist...
California declares stubborn drought officially over
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
California Governor Jerry Brown declared Friday the official end of the state's drought that lasted more than five years. Despite lifting the drought emergency ...
US coal company CEO urges Trump to stay in Paris climate deal
Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)
The head of US coal mining company Cloud Peak Energy on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to respect the Paris agreement aimed at combatting climate change....
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