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India skips key London climate meet; UK gets warmer and wetter
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
The two-day conference in London was the first face-to-face talks among governments in more than 18 months and offered a chance of compromise ahead of the pivot...
Climate science report 'critical for success' of COP26: UN
Jul 26, 2021 (AFP)
"The report that you are going to finalise is going to be very important worldwide," World Meteorological Organization head Petteri Taalas told some 700 delegat...
India: on the frontline of climate change
Jul 25, 2021 (AFP)
In the first seven months of this year alone the impoverished nation of 1.3 billion people has experienced two cyclones, a deadly glacier collapse in the Himala...
UK hosts 51 countries for climate talks ahead of COP26
Jul 24, 2021 (AFP)
British minister Alok Sharma, President of COP26, will lead the two-day meeting, which London said will address "key issues that require resolution" at the summ...
Climate cataclysms set stage for key UN science report
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
The world is a different place than in 2014, when the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its fifth comprehensive assessment of global ...
Meeting Paris Agreement emissions reduction target may generate 8M jobs
Jul 23, 2021 (UPI)
To limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius and avoid catastrophic climate change, scientists agree that more aggressive actions need to be taken. Ac...
IPCC, the world's unrivaled authority on climate science
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
The body meets next week to vet and validate a summary of part one of its first major assessment in seven years. Here's a thumbnail profile of the panel. Histor...
Climate 'mysteries' still puzzle scientists, despite progress
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
Heatwaves -- and particularly the tendency of current models to underestimate the intensity of these bursts of deadly, searing temperature. This is one of the "...
US urges China to help with climate; As EU fears populist pushback
Jul 20, 2021 (AFP)
"As a large country and economic leader and now the largest driver of climate change, China absolutely can help lead the world to success by peaking and startin...
Climate change sees Swiss Alps add over 1,000 lakes: study
Jul 19, 2021 (AFP)
The inventory of Swiss Glacial lakes showed that almost 1,200 new lakes have formed in formerly glaciated regions of the Swiss Alps since the end of the Little ...
Warming link to Europe floods plausible; As climate dominates German elections
Jul 17, 2021 (AFP)
But can global warming really be blamed for these very different, isolated events in different parts of the world? According to Jean Jouzel, a climatologist and...
Germany floods push climate change to front of election campaign
Jul 16, 2021 (AFP)
More than 100 people were killed in western Germany in what has been dubbed a "flood of death" that crashed on to houses in a violent storm overnight Wednesday,...
Putin says Russia, US have 'common interests' on climate change
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
"The climate problem is one of the areas where Russia and the United States have common interests and similar approaches," Putin said in a phone call with Kerry...
NASA, European Space Agency join forces on climate change
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
"To ensure that data from Earth-observing satellites are used to their best advantage, further science and, ultimately, bring the most benefit to humankind, ESA...
Yellen calls on G20 to step up climate action
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
The Group of 20 richest countries "are responsible for 80 percent of global carbon emissions, so it is our responsibility to take action -- and do so immediatel...
Drought-hit California asks residents to cut water use by 15 percent
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
Governor Gavin Newsom deemed the western state's unusually dry year a "mega drought" and urged Californians to save scarce water resources by reducing activitie...
Attention Researchers: Space, Suborbital, and Climate-Focused Technologies Wanted
Jul 08, 2021 (SPX)
Through NASA's Flight Opportunities program, awardees receive a grant or cooperative agreement allowing them to purchase flights directly from any eligible U.S....
For war-scarred Iraq, climate crisis the next great threat
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
The oil-rich country, scarred by wars and insurgencies over the past four decades, is also one of the world's most vulnerable to climate change and struggles wi...
French govt drops bid to put climate fight in constitution
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
Lawmakers from President Emmanuel Macron's centrist LREM party proposed adding that France "guarantees environmental protection and biological diversity, and co...
Climate change link as New Zealand records warmest June on record
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
Daily temperatures averaged 10.6 Celsius (51.1 Fahrenheit) -- 1.9C above average despite a cold snap late in the month, the National Institute of Water and Atmo...
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