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Last seven years on track to be hottest on record: UN
Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)
The preliminary WMO state of the climate report, launched as the UN COP26 climate conference opens, said that global warming from greenhouse gas emissions threa...
Drought to downpour: California weather whiplash is climate change sentinel
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
Such extreme shifts are becoming more frequent in California and are a harbinger of what is to come for the rest of a warming planet, scientists say. "Californi...
UN chief warns G20 of 'serious risk' of failure at climate talks
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
"There is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver," Guterres told journalists, on the eve of a weekend meeting of G20 heads of state in Rome. The leaders o...
Five climate change myths
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
- 'It's a hoax / conspiracy' - Some brand the crisis a hoax by scientists to justify their research grants -- or even a conspiracy by governments to control peo...
'Never seen anything like it': astronaut on 2021 climate disasters
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
Pesquet recently finished up his second mission at the International Space Station, an experience that made him appreciate Earth's fragility like never before. ...
'Never thought we would live like this' -- despair for Peru climate casualties
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
With her husband and three children, she went from a tranquil, self-sufficient life on a fertile river bank to a straw-topped hut next to a busy highway, with n...
No one left: climate change fuels Guatemalan migration
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Two powerful hurricanes that struck the north of the Central American country in 2020 decimated cardamom crops, leaving thousands of indigenous people destitute...
NASA, FEMA to host Alliance For Climate Action series in October
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
Attendees throughout the series will learn about progress in climate research, engage with industry peers, and identify opportunities for collaboration. The ser...
Early human activities impacted Earth's atmosphere more than previously known
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
Black carbon, commonly referred to as soot, is a light-absorbing particle that comes from combustion sources such as biomass burning (e.g. forest fires) and, mo...
Tehran suffering worst drought in 50 years: water official
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Tehran has had 0.4 millimetres of rain since September 23, compared with 14.3 mm over the same period in 2020, said Mohammad Shahriari, deputy director of the c...
Latest climate plans worlds away from 1.5C target: UN
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Just days before the Glasgow meeting, which is being billed as crucial for the long-term viability of the Paris climate deal, the UN's Environment Programme sai...
UK's Johnson voices concern COP26 'might go wrong'
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
But the UK leader told a special Downing Street press conference with children that he remained hopeful a deal can be done to reduce carbon emissions and limit ...
Climate activists rally to pressure post-Merkel government
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
The Fridays for Future youth movement called the march from the Brandenburg Gate landmark through the government quarter a month after the German general electi...
Chile's 'flowering desert' a window on effects of climate change
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
The pata de guanaco and yellow ananuca are among 200 species of flowers that can bloom in an inhospitable environment that averages just 0.01 centimeters of rai...
US intelligence services see security threat in climate change
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
More extreme weather "will increasingly exacerbate a number of risks to US national security interests, from physical impacts that could cascade into security c...
Planned fossil fuel output shatters 1.5C climate target: UN
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
Ten days before a climate summit that is being billed as key to the viability of the Paris Agreement temperature goals, the UN's Environment Programme said that...
Analysis: 99.9% of climate studies agree that humans are causing climate change
Oct 19, 2021 (UPI)
More than 99.9% of the 88,125 climate-related studies published between 2012 and November of last year concluded that warming temperatures, increased frequency ...
Drought-hit Iraq's crop farmland to be halved
Oct 18, 2021 (AFP)
Iraq's government said the area of farmland with crops would this 2021-2022 season cover "50 percent of the cultivated area last year", according to a statement...
White House launches plan to deal with 'systemic' risks of climate change
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
US officials say the strategy will start to adjust to the changing environment and mitigate financial damage from extreme weather that increasingly has caused d...
US Treasury to study climate change's impact on communities
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
The department's Financial Literacy and Education Commission will look into "how households, communities, and the smallest businesses experience financial resil...
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