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French environment minister to head UN climate forum
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said Wednesday she would head the UN's COP21 climate forum after a long-time political rival, former foreign minister...
A million children severely malnourished in eastern, southern Africa: UN
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
Nearly one million children across eastern and southern Africa are suffering from "severe acute malnutrition" after two years of drought and the strongest El Ni...
French ex-FM Fabius says will quit as head of UN climate forum
Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)
Former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius will step down as president of COP21, the UN's climate forum, after being appointed head of France's constitutiona...
Climate deal will live on, despite US blow: experts
Feb 13, 2016 (AFP)
In freezing President Barack Obama's plan to tackle carbon emissions, the US Supreme Court delivered a blow to a global climate deal - but experts say that US c...
Drought caused by El Nino threatening food security in southern Africa: UN
Feb 12, 2016 (AFP)
The El Nino weather phenomenon, one of the worst in 50 years, has caused intense drought in southern Africa that will have a "devastating" impact on the region'...
Long-term picture offers little solace on climate change
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Climate change projections that look ahead one or two centuries show a rapid rise in temperature and sea level, but say little about the longer picture. Today (...
Climate change 'forcing species to move'
Feb 11, 2016 (AFP)
Warming temperatures are causing about half of the world's plants and animals to move location, an international conference in Australia heard Wednesday, with e...
Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers
Feb 09, 2016 (JPL)
A study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, shows, in detail, the reason w...
Climate change likely to extend across next 10,000 years
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
The damaging climate consequences of carbon emissions will grow and persist for millennia without a dramatic new global energy strategy, according to a new set ...
Zimbabwe appeals for $1.5 bln to prevent starvation
Feb 09, 2016 (AFP)
Zimbabwe on Tuesday appealed to local businesses and charities for $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) aid to save more than a quarter of the population from starv...
Zimbabwe declares 'state of disaster' over drought
Feb 05, 2016 (AFP)
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Friday declared a "state of disaster" in many rural areas hit by a severe drought, with more than a quarter of the populat...
With climate, fertilizing oceans could be zero-sum game
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming...
Intact nature offers best defense against climate change
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Worldwide responses to climate change could leave people worse off in the future according to a recent study conducted by CSIRO, Wildlife Conservation Society (...
Uncertainties in tree-ring-based climate reconstructions probed
Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)
Current approaches to reconstructing past climate by using tree-ring data need to be improved on so that they can better take uncertainty into account, new rese...
Millions in drought-hit Ethiopia facing food shortages: UN
Jan 28, 2016 (AFP)
Millions of people in drought-hit Ethiopia face dire food shortages, with the United Nations warning Thursday of a break in deliveries that could leave huge num...
How 2 degrees may turn into 4
Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)
At the recent COP21 climate conference in Paris, delegates reached an agreement that plans to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius. This ste...
Eritrea president dismisses food crisis fears despite drought
Jan 23, 2016 (AFP)
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Saturday dismissed fears the Horn of African nation faces a food crisis, despite sweeping drought across the wider region l...
Study maps temperature increases caused by CO2
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's temperature has increased by 1C over the past century, and most of this warming has been caused by carbon dioxide emissions. But what does that mean loc...
Record-Shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic...
Assessing the impact of human-induced climate change
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
The past century has seen a 0.8C (1.4 F) increase in average global temperature, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the over...
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