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Ten big energy firms vow to fight climate change
Oct 16, 2015 (AFP)
Ten of the world's leading oil and gas companies vowed Friday to help fight climate change, notably by shifting towards cleaner natural gas, but their promise w...
Biodiversity stabilizes ecosystems during climate extremes
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Can biodiversity help protect ecosystems from extreme conditions? That question is much on the minds of scientists and policy makers as a changing climate bring...
Can a crystal ward off climate change?
Oct 15, 2015 (UPI)
Carbon-absorbing crystals probably won't stave off global warming, but they could help put a dent in carbon emissions. Carbon capturing technologies are mostly ...
New insights into the dynamics of past climate change
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
A new study of the relationship between ocean currents and climate change has found that they are tightly linked, and that changes in the polar regions can affe...
Canada election winner to set new climate direction
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
After nearly two decades of foot-dragging on carbon emissions, the winner of Canada's upcoming legislative elections will negotiate new CO2 cuts at year-end tal...
Horn of Africa drying ever faster as climate warms
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
The Horn of Africa has become increasingly arid in sync with the global and regional warming of the last century and at a rate unprecedented in the last 2,000 y...
Yellow River sediment offers insight into climate history
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
By meticulously examining sediments in China's Yellow River, a Swedish-Chinese research group are showing that the history of tectonic and climate evolution on ...
Quantifying the impact of climate on ecosystems worldwide
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team led by UCLA life scientists has, for the first time, quantified the direct influence of climate on the growth of ecosystems aroun...
New DYI experiment shows students the physics of climate change
Oct 12, 2015 (SPX)
MacGyver this! New DYI experiment shows students the physics of climate change Fishing line, paper clips, glass marble, glue - no, not the makings of a MacGyver...
Development banks pledge $15 bln in new climate funds: officials
Oct 09, 2015 (AFP)
Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch ...
Distinguishing coincidence from causality in the climate system
Oct 09, 2015 (SPX)
Detecting how changes in one spot on Earth - in temperature, rain, wind - are linked to changes in another, far away area is key to assessing climate risks. Sci...
The divisive issue of reaching $100bn in climate funds
Oct 09, 2015 (AFP)
The movers and shakers of the world economy are trying to close in on the magic number of $100 billion a year to fight climate change as they meet this week in ...
Vulnerable nations launch 'V20' to fight climate change
Oct 08, 2015 (AFP)
Finance ministers from 20 of the countries most vulnerable to climate change launched the "V20" group Thursday to marshal resources for their nations' fight aga...
Climate aid from rich nations at $62 bn in 2014: report
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
Rich nations have stepped up their climate aid for poorer nations, paying $62 billion (55 billion euros) last year, approaching a $100-billion annual target for...
Surface of the oceans affects climate more than thought
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
The oceans seem to produce significantly more isoprene, and consequently affect stronger the climate than previously thought. This emerges from a study by the I...
60 mn people in sub-Saharan Africa risk famine: Red Cross
Oct 05, 2015 (AFP)
Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike the risk of...
France's Fabius urges stragglers to publish emissions data
Oct 04, 2015 (AFP)
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who will chair December's UN-led climate talks in Paris, on Sunday urged countries which have yet to publish greenhouse ...
How ocean circulation changed atmospheric CO2
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have struggled for the past few decades to understand why air temperatures around Antarctica over the past one million years were almost perfectly in...
7.5 million going hungry as Ethiopia crisis worsens
Oct 02, 2015 (AFP)
The number of hungry Ethiopians needing food aid has risen sharply due to poor rains and the El Nino weather phenomenon with around 7.5 million people now in ne...
World headed for too-high 2.7 Celsius warming: experts
Oct 01, 2015 (AFP)
Earth could warm 2.7 degrees Celsius this century, warned a review Thursday which judged national carbon-cutting pledges insufficient to stave off worst-case-sc...
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