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World cities seek $375 bn to fight climate change
Dec 02, 2016 (AFP)
The world's big cities will need $375 billion of investment to curb climate change, a large gathering of mayors heard in Mexico on Thursday. "It is a lot, but t...
How the cold 1430s led to famine and disease
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
While searching through historical archives to find out more about the 15th-century climate of what is now Belgium, northern France, Luxembourg, and the Netherl...
China: Economic development tied to climate goals
Dec 02, 2016 (UPI)
In a white paper on economic development, Beijing said one of its main focal points was gaining ground in an environmentally friendly way. Beijing issued a deve...
How four cities wrestle with climate challenge
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
Fighting climate change means different things in different cities, as this snapshot illustrates: - Vancouver, Canada - Environmentalism and tourism are intertw...
Megacities key to reaching global climate goals
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
The world's big cities must collectively cut their carbon footprint by nearly half within a decade if global climate goals are to be met, according to an analys...
World mayors gather to plot Trump-era climate plan
Nov 30, 2016 (AFP)
Mayors from scores of the world's biggest cities gathered in Mexico Wednesday to plot their strategy for fighting climate change in the face of skepticism from ...
How did the Sahara Desert get so dry?
Nov 30, 2016 (UPI)
Some 6,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was regularly drowned by tropical rains. It wasn't a desert at all, but vast grasslands. Today, the Sahara features some...
Climate model predictions are telling a consistent story
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Three independent methods of modelling climate change impact on yield display the same bleak tendency: When global temperature increases, wheat yield will decli...
Huge reduction in African dust plume impacted climate 11,000 years ago
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Every year, trade winds over the Sahara Desert sweep up huge plumes of mineral dust, transporting hundreds of teragrams - enough to fill 10 million dump trucks ...
Study Sheds New Insights Into Global Warming Trends
Nov 25, 2016 (JPL)
A new multi-institutional study of the temporary slowdown in the global average surface temperature warming trend observed between 1998 and 2013 concludes the p...
Peruvian farmer sues German energy giant over climate change
Nov 24, 2016 (AFP)
A German court will on Thursday hear a complaint by a Peruvian farmer who accuses energy giant RWE of contributing to the climate change that has caused glacial...
Overheated Arctic sign of climate change 'vicious circle'
Nov 24, 2016 (AFP)
Freakishly high temperatures in the Arctic driven by heat-packed oceans and northward winds have been reinforced by a "vicious circle" of climate change, scient...
Deciphering Trump's mixed signals on climate change
Nov 23, 2016 (AFP)
Donald Trump's stay of execution for pulling the United States out of a landmark climate pact was welcomed Wednesday by diplomats and experts, even as they fret...
The decline in emissions also has negative implications
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Due to the burning of biomass and fossil fuels and, above all, due to agriculture, excessive quantities of reactive nitrogen are still being released into the a...
EU set to miss 'green' budget target: watchdog
Nov 22, 2016 (AFP)
The European Union risks missing its target of spending 20 percent of its budget on action to tackle climate change, the bloc's financial watchdog said on Tuesd...
Current climate date rescue activities in Australia
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Long-term weather data is the backbone of almost all research into climate change and variability. The recovery of historical instrumental data is a well-establ...
Bolivia declares drought emergency
Nov 21, 2016 (AFP)
Bolivia's government declared an emergency on Monday as the country suffers its worst drought in 25 years. "The cabinet has approved a decree... to declare a na...
Donald Trump looms large over future of climate action
Nov 19, 2016 (AFP)
From across the Atlantic, Donald Trump eclipsed a UN conference which fought valiantly in Marrakesh to preserve momentum on curtailing climate change amid fears...
UN climate meeting closes under Trump shadow
Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)
A UN climate conference dominated by Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from a hard-won pact concludes in Marrakesh Friday amid fears that the goal of curtailin...
Earth sees hottest year-to-date in modern era: US
Nov 17, 2016 (AFP)
The first 10 months of this year have been the hottest in modern times, while last month was the third warmest October over land and sea surfaces since 1880, US...
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