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Climate change to bring longer droughts in Europe: study
Aug 06, 2020 (AFP)
The five hottest years in recorded history have occurred in the last five years. This extreme heat was exacerbated in 2018 and 2019 by two consecutive summers o...
Irish supreme court quashes govt climate plan
Jul 31, 2020 (AFP)
The government will now be forced to redraft its plan. The legal challenge, brought by Friends of the Irish Environment, contended a 2017 government climate act...
'Climate refugee' complex for 4,500 Bangladeshi families
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
Climate change has already taken a serious toll on densely populated and impoverished Bangladesh, a country the United Nations has identified as among the most ...
Using techniques from astrophysics, researchers can forecast drought up to ten weeks ahead
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
Satellite imagery is already used in Kenya to monitor the state of pastures and determine the health of the vegetation using a metric known as the Vegetation Co...
Sweden, a flawed climate awareness pioneer
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
But the Swedish model has its limits. - Carbon tax - Sweden is at the forefront of selective waste sorting, recycling and renewable energy. The sparsely populat...
Breakthrough machine learning approach quickly produces higher-resolution climate data
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers took an alternative approach by using adversarial training, in which the model produces physically realistic details by observing entire fields ...
Satellite images show Europe facing droughts
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The UK has observed the driest May in the last 124 years. Fires resulting from droughts digest forests, meadows and fields. Many rivers have a record low water ...
Managing expectations: climate action not a quick fix
Jul 08, 2020 (AFP)
Even under optimistic scenarios in which carbon pollution falls sharply, climate change will continue for decades, they reported Tuesday in the journal Nature C...
Tie for warmest June globally, Siberia sizzles: EU
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
An Arctic hourly temperature record for the month -- 37 degrees Celsius -- was set on June 21 near Verkhoyansk in northeastern Russia, where a weather station l...
Tie for warmest 12-month period globally as Siberia sizzles
Jul 07, 2020 (AFP)
The 12-month period to June 2020 was also tied for the warmest to date across the planet, on a par with the ones ending in May 2020 and September 2016, an excep...
Climate change 'fuelling deadly India lightning strikes'
Jul 05, 2020 (AFP)
Around 215 people -- farmers, rural labourers and cattle graziers -- have now died from strikes in the country's poorest state since late March, authorities sai...
Global warming has erased 6,500 years of cooling
Jun 30, 2020 (UPI)
For the study, an international team of scientists applied a variety of statistical models to paleoclimate data sets in order to reconstruct global temperature ...
UK 'increasingly likely' to see +40C temperatures
Jun 30, 2020 (AFP)
The modelling study by Britain's Meteorological Office found that emissions are dramatically increasing the likelihood of extremely warm days in the UK, particu...
French climate council urges referendum on making 'ecocide' a crime
Jun 21, 2020 (AFP)
The "ecocide" proposal topped dozens of ideas presented by the 150 randomly picked members of the Citizen's Convention on Climate, along with inscribing the fig...
A world redrawn: Worry about climate not COVID, says James 'Gaia' Lovelock
Jun 16, 2020 (AFP)
"My impression is that we have overreacted almost everywhere to the pandemic," he told AFP by phone from his home in southern England, where he has been in lock...
Simba CubeSat to swivel from Earth to Sun to help track climate change
Jun 16, 2020 (ESA)
CubeSats are miniature satellites built up from standardised 10-cm boxes. Simba, short for 'Sun-Earth Imbalance' is a '3-unit' CubeSat, developed for ESA by a c...
Warmest May on record, Siberia 10C hotter
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
Large swathes of Siberia have been unusually warm for several months running, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported. "The really large anomalies ...
Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes
Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)
Some researchers are exploring proposals to engineer similar effects, for example by launching reflective aerosols into the stratosphere - via planes, balloons,...
Montreal breaks May temperature record as heatwave grips Canada
May 28, 2020 (AFP)
At Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau international airport, the mercury rose to 36.6 degrees Celsius (98 Fahrenheit), making the city the hottest in the country...
Drought drives Australia's sheep flock to record low
May 28, 2020 (AFP)
Farmers sold-off or disposed of Aus$21 billion (US$13.9 billion) worth of livestock in total last year, as the nation's sheep count fell to 66 million, its lowe...
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