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Rich nations fall short on climate finance pledge
Nov 06, 2020 (AFP)
Even those numbers may be inflated, watchdog groups warned. The 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen mandated that poorer nations -- historically blameless for ...
US formally quits Paris agreement but Biden pledges return
Nov 05, 2020 (AFP)
With election results pointing to a likely defeat for Donald Trump in Tuesday's election, Biden took on the tone of a president-elect and made clear that climat...
Expect more mega-droughts
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
UQ's Professor Hamish McGowan said the findings suggested climate change would lead to increased water scarcity, reduced winter snow cover, more frequent bushfi...
Humans in ancient Turkey adapted to climate change, thrived
Oct 30, 2020 (UPI)
New archaeological research suggests populations in ancient Turkey were able to adapt and flourish in the face of two periods of climate change, occurring betwe...
New website puts climate in your hands
Oct 22, 2020 (ESA)
From the vantage point of space, users can see for themselves how atmospheric greenhouse gases are rising, glaciers are retreating, and ice sheets are diminishi...
Trees and lawns beat the heat
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
One strategy is to replace artificial surfaces with vegetation cover. In water-limited regions such as Utah, a state with one of the lowest annual rainfall rate...
High stakes for Earth's climate future in US vote
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
In a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, increasing signs of the brutal impacts of climate change have come into view, with record temperatures, sea ice...
Arctic Ocean sediments reveal permafrost thawing during past climate warming
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
Arctic permafrost stores more carbon than the atmosphere does. When permafrost thaws, this carbon may be converted to greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) that then e...
Fraction of money earmarked for COVID-19 recovery could boost climate efforts
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
Governments worldwide are planning stimulus packages to boost the economy following the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, more than $12 trill...
Restored ecosystems could absorb half of emissions since Industrial Revolution
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
Protecting 30% of the priority areas identified in the study, together with protecting ecosystems still in their natural form, would reduce carbon emissions equ...
EU leaders to decide tougher climate goal in December
Oct 15, 2020 (AFP)
Ambitious climate goals are backed by big EU powers including France and Germany, as well as many major businesses, but face resistance from eastern member stat...
Austria boosts climate spending despite virus hit
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler, from the Green party, hailed the money as the "biggest rail package Austria has ever seen". The Greens have been in a co...
Barren no more: study finds millions of trees dot deserts
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
In fact, some 1.8 billion trees dot parts of the West African Sahara and Sahel deserts and so-called sub-humid zone, a previously uncounted bounty that overturn...
Nature backs Biden over 'disastrous' Trump for US president
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
One of the world's most prestigious scientific publications, Nature said that "no US president in recent history has so relentlessly attacked and undermined" vi...
Early action vital to stymie climate disasters: report
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
Ask not "what the weather will be but what the weather will do": that is the message in a fresh report by more than a dozen UN agencies and financing institutio...
Rising atmospheric dust across the Great Plains recalls lead up to the Dust Bowl
Oct 13, 2020 (UPI)
The research, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, increased cropland conversion and expanded growing seasons are exposing more and ...
Earth 'squeezed like an orange': Call for climate action
Oct 11, 2020 (AFP)
Here are some quotes from the free, streamed TED event: "The Earth must be worked and nursed, cultivated and protected. We cannot continue to squeeze it like an...
Ocean patterns help scientists forecast drought, water flow in the Colorado river
Oct 09, 2020 (UPI)
The breakthrough analysis -- described Friday in the journal Communications Earth and Environment -- allowed scientists to develop a forecasting model capable o...
Pandemic downturn offers path to address climate change: IMF
Oct 07, 2020 (AFP)
The right mix of carbon taxes to dampen consumption, and subsidies to help consumers and boost green technology research could create jobs and soften the blow a...
Climate and carbon cycle in perpetual interaction
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
Forest fires become more frequent all over the world, release additional CO2 into the atmosphere, and further reinforce the global warming that enhanced forest ...
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