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Researchers offer nuanced method of studying climate-society interactions
Mar 24, 2021 (UPI)
The authors of a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggest there is much to learn from historic climate-society interactions. Unfortunately,...
Carbon pawprint: is man's best friend the planet's enemy?
Mar 20, 2021 (AFP)
While the precise carbon pawprint of our pets is the source of scientific debate, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: lovable, they may be, cats and dogs ...
NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force
Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)
The administration's climate agenda outlines putting climate at the center of the country's foreign policy and national security and encourages a governmentwide...
Europe's droughts since 2015 'worst in 2,000 years'
Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)
Using data from tree rings in living and dead European oaks going back to the time of the Romans, scientists identified a long-term drying trend that suddenly i...
U.N. secretary-general warns world is at a global warming crossroads
Mar 13, 2021 (UPI)
Guterres spoke in a video message at the opening of the IPCC's meeting to approve the final component of its sixth assessment report on the climate in Interlake...
The number that could shift climate action into overdrive
Mar 11, 2021 (AFP)
That all-important number -- the dollar value of the climate change harm attributable to a tonne of CO2 -- is known as the social cost of carbon (SCC), or as so...
Pentagon working group to address climate change as national security threat
Mar 10, 2021 (UPI)
Austin's letter directs the establishment of a Climate Working Group within the Defense Department to coordinate Pentagon responses to a January executive order...
US to unveil Paris climate pact commitments in April
Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)
Kerry announced the pledge after talks with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, part of a European tour to signal a fresh commitment to fighting climate cha...
John Kerry calls for US and EU to renew climate effort
Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)
In Brussels for his first face-to-face talks with EU officials since the change of government in Washington, Kerry warned: "We face an extraordinary crisis." As...
SUTD study uncovers how big droughts in the Greater Mekong trigger CO2 emission bursts
Mar 08, 2021 (SPX)
The study, titled 'The Greater Mekong's climate-water-energy nexus: how ENSO-triggered regional droughts affect power supply and CO2 emissions', was published b...
UK keen to avoid virtual COP26 climate summit: Minister
Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)
"We are planning for a physical event," Alok Sharma, President of COP26, said in Paris Tuesday after meeting with former French prime minister Laurent Fabius. "...
Social tipping points: slouching toward climate salvation
Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)
The planet's biggest carbon polluters -- China, US, EU -- vow carbon neutrality by mid-century; solar and wind power continued to surge even as global GDP shran...
Latest climate pledges 'very far' from Paris goals: UN
Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)
In its assessment of the pledges made in recent months by around 75 countries and the European Union, UN Climate Change said that only around 30 percent of glob...
Naval Postgraduate School to study surprise climate issues in $2.4M award
Feb 24, 2021 (UPI)
A new research project, "Advancing Resilience Theory and Tools to Combat Environmental Surprise," will focus on developing new theories and tools to better unde...
Climate change a grave threat to world peace, Johnson tells UN
Feb 23, 2021 (AFP)
The planet's warming temperatures were deemed inextricably linked to security by most countries, including the United States, France and Germany, though Russia ...
UN Security Council to meet on global warming impact on world peace
Feb 21, 2021 (AFP)
The session, called by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and conducted by video-conference, comes just days after the United States under President Joe Biden...
US officially back in Paris accord, vows climate action
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
A month after Biden took office, the world's largest economy and second largest carbon emitter was formally back in the 2015 global agreement aimed at confronti...
Biden breaks with Trump as G7 tackles climate, Covid recovery
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's G7 chairman who hopes to host the grouping's leaders in Britain in June, will use the virtual talks to urge the dev...
Facebook will expand climate hub in battle against misinformation
Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)
The social media giant said it has added a section to its climate hub that features "facts that debunk common climate myths." Users might find, for example, inf...
Facebook to debunk climate change myths in expanded hub
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The social media giant said it has added a section to its climate hub that features "facts that debunk common climate myths" and will rely on climate communicat...
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