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Timeline links volcanic eruptions to centuries of cold temp extremes
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
A new study reorders the timing and reveals the climate impact of nearly 300 major volcanic eruptions worldwide, dating back to the early Roman period. The anal...
Scientists point to narrowing gap for averting climate disaster
Jul 07, 2015 (AFP)
Climate scientists gathered Tuesday in Paris, five months before the deadline for a historic carbon-curbing pact, to show that a radical shift to sustainable en...
As nations dither, cities pick up climate slack
Jul 02, 2015 (AFP)
Their national governments hamstrung by domestic politics, stretched budgets and diplomatic inertia, many cities and provinces have taken a leading role -- driv...
Cities, regions, demand bigger climate say
Jul 01, 2015 (AFP)
Leaders of city and regional governments gathered Wednesday in the French city of Lyon, in the grips of a western European heatwave, to demand a bigger stake in...
New study re-writes the rules of carbon analysis
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found analyses of carbon emissions may be misleading as they failed to include the impacts of policies such a...
China sets CO2 target, garners praise
Jun 30, 2015 (AFP)
China, the world's top CO2 polluter, promised Tuesday to peak emissions within about 15 years, in a move widely hailed as a boost for the global effort to curb ...
Obama and Rousseff focus on climate, play down spy row
Jun 30, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama and Brazil's Dilma Rousseff traded compliments and vowed to work together on renewable energy Tuesday, bidding to put a bitter spying ...
El Nino-spawned dry spell to cut Philippine rainfall: official
Jun 29, 2015 (AFP)
The Philippines is facing an El Nino-spawned dry spell that will cut rainfall by as much as 80 percent and hit food production, a government weather forecaster ...
Brazil, China, India, South Africa in push for climate financing
Jun 28, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil, China, India and South Africa voiced disappointment Sunday over the failure of rich countries to come up with billions of dollars needed to help them si...
Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a computer model that clarifies the complex processes driving ocean mixing in the vast eddies that s...
Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates
Jun 26, 2015 (AFP)
Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday. Pul...
Global warming is unlikely to reduce winter deaths
Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)
A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health debunks the assumption that global warming will lead to a decline in the number ...
ADB: Poor face greater climate risks
Jun 24, 2015 (UPI)
A report from the Asian Development Bank finds widening income gaps in the Asia-Pacific leaves the poor more exposed to the risks of climate change. Vinod Thoma...
Rainfall gives respite to drought-hit North Korea
Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)
Parched North Korea has seen significant rainfall over the past 12 days, state media reported, but not enough to end a severe drought described as the worst in ...
Pope urges world to act before climate change destroys planet
Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)
Pope Francis on Thursday urged the world to act quickly to prevent "extraordinary" climate change from destroying the planet, saying rich countries must bear re...
Remote cave study reveals 3,000 years of European climate variation
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
University of New South Wales Australia-led research on limestone formations in a remote Scottish cave has produced a unique 3000-year-long record of climatic v...
Atmospheric oxygen levels may have influenced past climate
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
Variations in the percentage of atmospheric oxygen may have influenced climate in the past 500 million years, according to new calculations by Christopher Pouls...
Scientists reveal underpinnings of drought tolerance in plants
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
Regions all over the globe are suffering from severe drought, which threatens crop production worldwide. This is especially worrisome given the need to increase...
N. Korea hit by worst drought in a century: state media
Jun 16, 2015 (AFP)
North Korea has been hit by its worst drought in a century, state media said Tuesday, sparking fears of worsening food shortages in the impoverished communist c...
IEA warns of 4.3C temperature jump from climate change
Jun 15, 2015 (AFP)
The International Energy Agency on Monday warned temperatures could jump by as much as 4.3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century and urged countries to impr...
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