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After Paris climate deal, now the hard part
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
Five months after 195 nations sealed the world's first global climate deal, diplomats gather again in the French capital Friday to start translating good intent...
Malawi, Mozambique issue drought alerts as crisis spreads
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
Malawi and Mozambique sounded alarm bells on Wednesday over worsening food shortages caused by severe drought as concerns grow over a hunger crisis spreading ac...
Islands facing a dry future
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Island nations could be forgiven for feeling slighted. They already face the brunt of the effects of climate change: Rising sea levels, dwindling resources, thr...
Drought threatens California despite El Nino
Apr 10, 2016 (AFP)
Last winter, El Nino-driven storms dumped much-needed snow and rain over California, boosting reservoir levels and fueling hopes the parched state's four-year d...
World Bank taking bolder climate steps
Apr 08, 2016 (UPI)
The World Bank said it was standing ready to offer its unique leverage on the global stage to help address the growing challenges of climate change. Laura Tuck,...
Climate models underestimate warming by exaggerating cloud brightening
Apr 08, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Yale University have found that climate models are aggressively making clouds "brighter" as the planet...
Paris climate talks cut back on hot air: report
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
Last year's climate conference in Paris, which yielded a long-awaited carbon-cutting pact, emitted fewer planet-warming greenhouse gases than many predecessor e...
In drought-hit central Nicaragua, water 'is like looking for gold'
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
Nicaragua may boast a southern lake that is Central America's biggest body of freshwater, but in the center of the country years of drought have taken a severe ...
California drought patterns becoming more common
Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)
Atmospheric scientists have found that California's highest temperatures are almost always associated with blocking ridges, regions of high atmospheric pressure...
Cold mountain streams offer climate refuge
Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)
A new study offers hope for cold-water species in the face of climate change. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, addre...
Climate forecasts may be flawed, says study
Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)
Predictions of unprecedented rainfall extremes in the 20th century driven by global warming turned out wrong, a study said Wednesday, casting doubt on methods u...
Ancient Southwest marked by repeated periods of boom and bust
Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)
The heavily studied yet largely unexplained disappearance of ancestral Pueblo people from southwest Colorado is "the most vexing and persistent question in Sout...
Climate change may threaten $2.5 trillion in assets: study
Apr 04, 2016 (AFP)
Trillions of dollars' worth of financial assets may be under threat from global warming's effects by 2100, climate economists warned on Monday. If warming reach...
Two killed in Philippines as police disperse drought protest
Apr 02, 2016 (AFP)
Two people were killed in the southern Philippines after clashes between police and thousands of drought-hit farmers protesting over a lack of food, a demonstra...
Periods of boom and bust just part of life in the ancient Southwest
Apr 01, 2016 (UPI)
The disappearance of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest has long puzzled scientists, but the archaeological records shows it's not at all surprising. T...
Palaeosol loess shed light on early Pleistocene climate
Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)
Famous for its deserts, arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the driest regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern he...
Rivers turn to dust as drought bites Somalia
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
Somalia's bread basket has become a dust bowl as the life-giving waters of the mighty Shabelle river run dry amid intense drought in the war-torn country. River...
US, China to be among climate deal signatories
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
The United States and China will be among the nations signing the Paris climate agreement in New York next month, the White House announced Wednesday, ahead of ...
In search of compromise among climate risk management strategies
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
Balancing the impacts of climate change risks for all involved may not be within the realm of economics or physics, but a novel approach may help to achieve a b...
Ancient bones point to shifting grassland species as climate changes
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
More rainfall during the growing season may have led to one of the most significant changes in the Earth's vegetation in the distant past, and similar climate c...
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