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Reeling from attacks, France bans Paris climate rallies
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
France Wednesday banned two citizens' rallies planned for a crunch climate conference due to open in Paris just two weeks after terror attacks killed 129 people...
Chinese emissions to rise despite coal peak
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
Obscured by polluted haze, workers are putting the finishing touches to towering smokestacks on a multi-billion-dollar coal-to-oil plant in China that will pump...
Seven Case Studies in Carbon and Climate
Nov 17, 2015 (JPL)
Every part of the mosaic of Earth's surface - ocean and land, Arctic and tropics, forest and grassland - absorbs and releases carbon in a different way. Wild-ca...
Don't forget public health at Paris Climate talks: WHO
Nov 17, 2015 (AFP)
The upcoming climate summit in Paris could produce the most important agreement of the century for public health matters, the UN said Tuesday. The World Health ...
A Breathing Planet, Off Balance
Nov 16, 2015 (JPL)
Earth's oceans and land cover are doing us a favor. As people burn fossil fuels and clear forests, only half of the carbon dioxide released stays in the atmosph...
World leaders back drive for Paris climate deal
Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)
Leaders of the world's top economies on Monday backed a drive to curb catastrophic climate change at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, according to a statemen...
NASA Targets 'Other Half' of Carbon, Climate Equation
Nov 16, 2015 (JPL)
During a media teleconference on Thursday, NASA and university scientists were able to discuss new insights, tools and agency research into key carbon and clima...
Security fears risk overshadowing Paris climate summit
Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)
Security fears in the wake of Friday's brutal slaying of 129 people in Paris threaten to overshadow a crunch climate summit to be launched by 120 world leaders ...
New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chroniclin...
The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North Atlantic propagated globally. The study, led by researchers from Centre for Ice and Climate at ...
France tightens borders ahead of climate summit
Nov 13, 2015 (AFP)
France reintroduced border checks on Friday as it tightened security ahead of UN climate talks that start in Paris at the end of the month. Controls will be in ...
'Regional disaster' warning as S.Africa suffers drought
Nov 13, 2015 (AFP)
Five of South Africa's nine provinces have been declared drought disaster areas for agriculture following one of the driest rainy seasons in decades, the govern...
East Africa hunger to worsen as El Nino strikes: UN
Nov 12, 2015 (AFP)
Conflicts, floods and failed rains caused by El Nino have sparked a dramatic rise in the number of people going hungry in east Africa, especially in drought-hit...
France, US clash on legal status of future climate deal
Nov 12, 2015 (AFP)
France and the United States appeared to clash Thursday over the legal status of a global pact to be agreed in Paris in December to stave off dangerous climate ...
Tracking the signs of global climate change
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
It comes as no surprise to geographer Chris Funk that East Africa has been particularly hard hit with back-to-back droughts this year and last. In fact, he and ...
Climate summit: 'considerable task ahead', says France
Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)
Ministers and negotiators from more than 75 nations made headway in talks ahead of a crunch UN climate summit but "the task ahead is considerable", France's for...
French president calls for environmental 'security council'
Nov 09, 2015 (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande called Monday for the creation of an "environmental security council" to verify and enforce measures to be adopted at a year-...
Johannesburg limits water use as drought worsens
Nov 09, 2015 (AFP)
Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and economic hub, on Monday imposed emergency water restrictions as supplies deteriorated due to a drought, the worst ...
'Life on planet at stake', France warns as climate ministers meet
Nov 08, 2015 (AFP)
France's top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a climate rescue pact, warned Sunday of looming planetary "catastrophe" ...
US, China least concerned about climate change: poll
Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)
China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change, a global pol...
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