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Climate action cannot wait for pandemic to end, medical journals warn

Sep 06, 2021 (AFP)

"Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world," read an editorial published in more than 220 leading ...

Climate change blamed for havoc in northeast US floods

Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)

"We are in a whole different world," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the flash floods. "This is a different challenge." Record rain turned streets into...

China minister says 'ball in Washington's court' for climate cooperation

Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)

Tensions between China and the United States have soared in recent months with the two sides trading barbs on Beijing's human rights record and its initial hand...

US climate envoy Kerry to visit China, Japan ahead of summit

Aug 31, 2021 (AFP)

Kerry, who already visited China in April, will go to Tianjin to "continue discussions on key aspects of the climate crisis," the State Department said in a sta...

Drought diplomacy helps boost Israel-Jordan ties

Aug 31, 2021 (AFP)

This month the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed unequivocally that the climate is changing faster than previously feared, heaping pressure ...

Extinction Rebellion protests in London's financial centre

Aug 27, 2021 (AFP)

Several hundred people marched to the beat of drums through the centre of the financial district. The demonstrators held signs reading "no future in fossil fuel...

Report: Climate change indicators saw record highs last year

Aug 26, 2021 (UPI)

The State of the Climate report, released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information, spe...

UN hot on the trail of temperature records

Aug 17, 2021 (AFP)

But such claims need to be verified by the United Nations before being confirmed or rejected -- a process that can take months of careful scientific checking. T...

Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds

Aug 16, 2021 (SPX)

The study, appearing in Science Advances, examines the paleoclimate record of the last 66 million years, during the Cenozoic era, which began shortly after the ...

Three in four say climate 'tipping points' close

Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)

The survey, conducted before the publication of a bombshell UN climate science report last week, showed that more than half (58 percent) of respondents in G20 n...

Gates offers $1.5 bn in climate help if US takes legislative action

Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)

A $1.2 trillion infrastructure package passed by the US Senate this week would funnel billions of dollars to the Department of Energy for projects battling clim...

UN climate report comprehensive, but regional gaps persist

Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)

But experts caution that the comprehensive global review contains blind spots -- overlooking regions that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change...

Is China delivering on its climate promises?

Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)

President Xi Jinping has vowed his country will reach peak emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. But so far, there is no action plan for achi...

Historic drought threatens California farms supplying much US food

Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)

Residents have watched with dismay as verdant fields have turned into brown, dusty plains, leaving shriveled trees, dying plants and exasperated farmers. Much o...

Satellites reveal how forests increase cloud and cool climate

Aug 06, 2021 (ESA)

Because trees sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into biomass, forests are widely championed for their role in mitigating climate chang...

Keeping Earth cool: Is the 1.5C target 'mission impossible'?

Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)

That question looms larger than all others as 195 nations tussle over the UN's first comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change since 2014, to be rel...

China to release updated climate plans 'in near future': envoy

Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)

Climate negotiators from 196 countries and the European Union as well as businesses, experts and world leaders will gather in Glasgow in November for the COP26 ...

No 'eureka moment': the evolution of climate science

Aug 02, 2021 (AFP)

"An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature," she wrote in the study, published in the American Journal of Science and Arts and then s...

Climate past provides tipping point 'early warning': study

Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)

Climate tipping points -- which are irrevocable over centuries or longer -- are thresholds past which large and rapid changes to the natural world may occur. Th...

Earth's vital signs worsen amid business-as-usual mindset on climate change

Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)

Authors led by OSU's William Ripple and Christopher Wolf, in a paper published in BioScience, are calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels in response to the cli...