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Last nine years all among 10 hottest-ever, says US
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
For 2021, the average temperature across global surfaces was 1.51 degrees Fahrenheit (0.84 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average, making the year the ...
Last 7 years 'warmest on record' globally: EU
Jan 10, 2022 (AFP)
Countries around the world have been blasted by a relentless assault of weather disasters linked to global warming in recent years, including record-shattering ...
Six million need aid in drought-hit parts of Ethiopia: UN
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
The drought is adding to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, where the war between government forces and the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Army (TPLF) in th...
No returning to climate of the past even with CO2 reduction
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
A POSTECH research team led by Professor Jong-Seong Kug and Ji-Hoon Oh (Division of Environmental Science and Engineering) conducted a simulation on the Earth s...
Chilean scientists study climate change at 'end of the world'
Dec 29, 2021 (AFP)
A recent expedition, which was delayed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, sought to investigate harmful organisms and how they are impacting climate cha...
Shifting climate brought increasingly extreme weather in 2021
Dec 29, 2021 (UPI)
The evidence that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have and continue to warm the planet and alter Earth's climate is overwhelming, but science never...
Climate change 2021: There's no turning back now
Dec 27, 2021 (AFP)
This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the streets of Glasgow, dismisse...
Mustard, fries in short supply due to Canada climate woes
Dec 24, 2021 (AFP)
In Japan, for example, McDonald's has been forced to ration fries as the British Columbia floods squeezed potato imports, while mustard producers in France are ...
One in four Somalis face acute hunger due to drought: UN
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
The crisis is expected to worsen, leaving 4.6 million people in desperate need of food aid by May 2022, the UN said, adding that the country had not seen a thir...
Deforestation, climate change making outdoor work unsafe: study
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
Between 2003-2018, the study found, about 4.9 million people lost at least half an hour per day of working conditions at a temperature recognized as safe. "Trop...
More extreme weather hits US as Biden promises aid to tornado-hit Kentucky
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of an "extremely strong" and "potentially record-breaking" storm system producing "a plethora of weather hazards" thro...
Bleak outlook for drought-hit Iraqis: study
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in war-scarred Iraq. The NRC said its r...
Russia defends veto of UN climate change resolution
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
Backed by Niger and Ireland, the draft resolution called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "integrate climate-related security risk as a central componen...
German cabinet agrees 60-bn-euro climate investment plan
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
The agreement was announced by Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who celebrated a "booster" for Europe's top economy and "the beginning of a climate-neutral a...
Russia vetoes UN resolution on climate change as global security threat
Dec 13, 2021 (AFP)
Backed by Niger and Ireland, the draft resolution called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "integrate climate-related security risk as a central componen...
Who will be the judge of countries' climate plans?
Dec 12, 2021 (AFP)
The question is so sensitive that, for now, the answer is: the countries themselves. While nations have agreed to a global target aimed at avoiding the most cat...
Climate change impact apparent in most weather-linked fluctuations on Earth
Dec 09, 2021 (UPI)
This climate variability caused by global warming can be seen in events such as temperature and precipitation extremes over land, the increased number of fires ...
As climate 'net-zero' plans grow, so do concerns from scientists
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
The concept is simple: starting now, to ensure that by a certain date -- usually 2050 -- they absorb as much carbon dioxide as they emit, thereby achieving carb...
NGO awards triple-A climate rating to just 14 firms
Dec 07, 2021 (AFP)
The NGO Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) said only 14 out of nearly 12,000 firms that it scores received A marks in all the three areas of climate change, forest...
When variations in Earth's orbit drive biological evolution
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by CNRS researchers1 show, in an article published in Nature on the 1st December 2021, that certain variations in Earth's orbit have in...
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