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Al Gore spreads environmental gospel before climate talks
Sep 30, 2015 (AFP)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore is busily training an army of organizers to go out and spread his environmental gospel ahead of key climate talks in Paris late...
Pledges bring world closer to climate goal: analysis
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
A stream of national pledges have put the planet closer but still a ways from a goal of keeping warming within the key danger threshold of two degrees Celsius (...
Climate goal closer as UN pressure builds
Sep 28, 2015 (AFP)
A stream of national pledges have put the planet closer to tackling climate change but there is more work to do, experts said Monday, as leaders pressed for a s...
Brazil gives boost in push for climate deal
Sep 27, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil on Sunday promised ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, boosting efforts for a global climate accord as leaders warned more work was needed. In on...
ADB to double annual climate financing to $6 bn
Sep 26, 2015 (AFP)
The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual lending for climate change adaptation to $6 billion by 2020, the Philippines-based lender said. The initiativ...
How fossil corals can shed light on the Earth's past climate
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
In a paper published in Science, researchers from the University of Bristol describe how they used radiocarbon measured in deep-sea fossil corals to shed light ...
Villagers in Zimbabwe skip meals to save scant food
Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)
Villagers in Zimbabwe are skipping meals and foraging for wild fruit as food stocks run out after a poor harvest blamed on drought and controversial land reform...
India to 'hike green energy targets' to combat climate change
Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)
India promises to hike renewable energy targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in long-awaited pledges to be announced next week for upcoming UN climat...
Researchers reveal when global warming first appeared
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global wa...
As polar ice melts, seabed life is working against climate change
Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)
When it comes to climate change, it's rare to get any good news. But a researcher who's reported evidence in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, after more ...
Flowing electrons help ocean microbes gulp methane
Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)
Good communication is crucial to any relationship, especially when partners are separated by distance. This also holds true for microbes in the deep sea that ne...
Experts urge Dutch govt to drop greenhouse gas appeal
Sep 22, 2015 (AFP)
Top global academics, lawyers and doctors are calling on the Dutch government to drop an appeal against a landmark court ruling which orders it to slash greenho...
US landfill waste, methane undercounted: climate study
Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)
The volume of waste in landfills, a major source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, was grossly underestimated in the United States in 2012, researchers said...
Global warming 'hiatus' never happened
Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)
An apparent lull in the recent rate of global warming that has been widely accepted as fact is actually an artifact arising from faulty statistical methods, Sta...
EU agrees Paris climate talks stance
Sep 18, 2015 (AFP)
The EU on Friday unveiled its stance on the upcoming climate negotiations in Paris, recommitting to its own greenhouse gas cuts for 2030 and urging the world to...
EU to set out negotiating stand for Paris climate summit
Sep 17, 2015 (AFP)
The European Union is due Friday to formally set out its negotiating stand for the UN climate summit in Paris, including committing to 40 percent greenhouse gas...
August breaks heat records across globe: US
Sep 17, 2015 (AFP)
Last month was the hottest August in modern history, in the latest sign of an unusually warm year across the world's land and sea surfaces, US government scient...
New perspectives for long-term climate predictions
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
Are climate predictions over periods of several years reliable if weather forecast are still only possible for short periods of several days? Nevertheless there...
How to beat the climate crisis? Start with carrots
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
To speed up progress in tackling climate change, policymakers need to build political support by investing in clean-energy industries rather than first penalizi...
Upslope migration of tropical plants due to climate change
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
The plants on the highest mountain in Ecuador have migrated more than 500 meters to higher altitudes during the last two centuries. This is determined in a new ...
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