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Potential widespread effects of geoengineering on both climate and the carbon cycle
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
The basic idea of geoengineering is to cool the earth by intentionally reducing the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface. Some of the proposed geoengi...
Horn of Africa drought drives 13 million to hunger
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
Across these regions, where people eke out a living from mainly agro-pastoral activities, the three rainy seasons since the end of 2020 have been marked by low ...
US climate envoy Kerry in Egypt to discuss COP27 summit
Feb 21, 2022 (AFP)
The meeting will take place in November in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, seeking to build on gains made at the previous conference in Glasgow ...
Will Climate Change Mean the Planet Reshapes Itself?
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
Since humans have existed on this planet for 200,000 years, we've fundamentally changed the physical, biological, and chemical systems that keep the earth spinn...
World funds own destruction with $1.8 tn subsidies: study
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
The report, estimating the value of damaging state subsidies, was commissioned by Branson's nonprofit initiative The B Team and global coalition Business for Na...
Morocco announces $1 billion drought relief plan
Feb 16, 2022 (AFP)
The emergency plan "aims to mitigate the effects of delay in rainfall, to alleviate the impact on agricultural activity and to provide assistance to the farmers...
Hunger crisis threatens half of Somalia's young children: UN
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
"Malnutrition has reached crisis levels," said Victor Chinyama, head of communications for the UN children's agency UNICEF's Somalia operations. "The time to ac...
Nations to review harrowing catalogue of climate impacts
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, mosquito-borne disease, deadly heat, water shortages, and reduced crop yields are already measurably worse due to global...
Stakes 'never been higher' in climate fight: IPCC head
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
"The need for the Working Group 2 report has never been greater because the stakes have never been higher," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Cha...
Climate-boosted drought in western US worst in 1,200 years
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
Human-caused global heating accounts for more than 40 percent of the dry spell's intensity, they reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. "The turn-of-the...
Spain, Portugal hit by winter drought
Feb 12, 2022 (AFP)
"I have never seen that!" says Carlos Perdigao, 76, as he gazes at the ruined stone houses of Vilar which were swallowed up by the Zezere river when a dam was o...
ESA hosts new office to coordinate global climate modelling push
Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)
The Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) brings together modelling centres from around the world, with the goal of benchmarking, intercomparing and impr...
UN science report to sound deafening alarm on climate
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
The world is already feeling the effects of global warming, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels, with last year seeing a cascade of deadly floods, hea...
Germany taps Greenpeace chief Morgan as first climate envoy
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
US-born Morgan, 55, who had been co-leader of Greenpeace International since 2016, will be the first person to hold the newly created role in Europe's top econo...
Climate change threatens Hadrian's Wall treasures in England
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Thousands of soldiers and many of their families lived around the 73-mile (118-kilometre) stone wall, which crosses England from west coast to east coast, marki...
13 million face hunger as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Three consecutive rainy seasons have failed as the region has recorded its driest conditions since 1981, the UN's World Food Programme said. The drought has des...
Human-induced climate change impacts the highest reaches of the planet - Mount Everest
Feb 04, 2022 (SPX)
The extreme sensitivity of the high-altitude Himalayan ice masses in rapid retreat forewarns of quickly emerging impacts that could range from increased inciden...
Spring in February: UK plants flowering 'a month early'
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
Trees, herbs and other flowering plants have shifted seasonal rhythms as temperatures have increased, according to the study led by the University of Cambridge....
For the 280th time, senator urges US to 'wake up' on climate
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
Until last year, Whitehouse would put up the same green sign next to a desk on the Senate floor once a week and launch into the monologues pushing for clean-ene...
Tied for 6th warmest year as 2021 shows continued trend
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2021 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA's bas...
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