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US, Mediterranean face extreme warming: study
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
Once the world as a whole has warmed by two degrees Celsius, top temperatures in the United States and Mediterranean basin will have climbed by even more, accor...
UN chief leads calls for climate action at energy forum
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday led calls for action to combat global warming at an energy summit in Abu Dhabi. "Now is the time for action," the UN ...
Growth rings on rocks give up North American climate secrets
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have found a new way to tease out signals about Earth's climatic past from soil deposits on gravel and pebbles, adding an unprecedented level of deta...
Drought, heat slash grain crops: study
Jan 06, 2016 (AFP)
Drought and heatwaves depleted grain harvests by 10 percent from 1964 to 2007, with sharper losses in the latter two decades and rich nations, reports a study r...
Earth's recent history key to predicting global temperatures
Dec 28, 2015 (SPX)
Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate c...
Russia 'warming 2.5 times quicker' than global average
Dec 25, 2015 (AFP)
Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the average for the rest of the world, the environment ministry said Friday, sounding an alarm on the rise in flood...
Melting sea ice increases Arctic precipitation, complicates climate predictions
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
The melting of sea ice will significantly increase Arctic precipitation, creating a climate feedback comparable to doubling global carbon dioxide, a Dartmouth C...
More rock weathering could counter C02 emissions
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered enhanced weathering of rock could counter man-made fossil fuel CO2 emissions and help to protect our oceans. An international team, l...
Xi, Obama pledge to implement Paris climate accord: Beijing
Dec 14, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama, the leaders of the world's two biggest polluters, pledged to work together to implement the cl...
Euphoria as landmark Paris climate deal adopted
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
Cheering envoys from 195 nations on Saturday approved a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic clim...
Climate deal a diplomatic coup for France
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
A 195-nation wrangle that ended Saturday with a historic Paris pact to curb global warming had to be the anti-Copenhagen: as flawlessly organised as the 2009 su...
After Paris: Now what for world climate?
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
After a champagne moment in Paris, where ministers from around the world crafted a pact to fight perilous climate change, now comes the hard part. Experts are u...
Scientists welcome climate pact but still alarmed
Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)
Climate scientists Saturday welcomed a pact to battle global warming as a major political advance, but warned of a gaping hole -- the lack of a detailed roadmap...
Landfills: The climate threat in trash
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
While efforts to avert disastrous climate change zoom in on cars, industry and power plants belching harmful gases into the air, a potent source of global warmi...
World powers lead frenetic overtime push for climate accord
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
World powers led an overtime push to seal a deal on Saturday aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, as sleep-deprived envoys battled in Paris over trill...
Brazil joins 'ambition coalition' at UN climate talks
Dec 11, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil said Friday it had joined the European Union, United States and 79 developing nations in a group calling for a far-reaching deal at UN climate-saving tal...
Historic UN climate pact 'extremely close': French host
Dec 10, 2015 (AFP)
The French host of UN talks aimed at saving mankind from climate catastrophe said Thursday a historic accord was "extremely close", but called for unprecedented...
Warm nights could flood the atmosphere with carbon under climate change
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
The warming effects of climate change usually conjure up ideas of parched and barren landscapes broiling in a blazing sun, its heat amplified by greenhouse gase...
Climate-saving deal within reach as Paris deadline looms
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
An elusive universal pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming is within reach, the French host of UN talks said Wednesday as he released a new bluepr...
Dissecting paleoclimate change
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Global climate change isn't new - the phenomenon has been around for millions of years. But now, a core from the ocean floor in the Santa Barbara Basin provides...
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