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COP26 climate talks pushed back to November 2021
May 28, 2020 (AFP)
"Pleased to have agreed a new date for @COP26," wrote Sharma, Britain's Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. "COP26 will now take pl...
Czech Republic drought visible from space
May 19, 2020 (ESA)
Recent maps, produced by the Dutch company VanderSat, show the extent of the recent drought in the Czech Republic. The maps show drier-than-usual soil moisture ...
Modern sea-level rise linked to human activities, Rutgers research reaffirms
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
Surprisingly, the Earth had nearly ice-free conditions with carbon dioxide levels not much higher than today and had glacial periods in times previously believe...
Potentially fatal combinations of humidity and heat are emerging across the globe
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
According to a new study, the projections are wrong: such conditions are already appearing. The study identifies thousands of previously rare or unprecedented b...
Pandemic taking toll on weather and climate watch: UN
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization cautioned that measurements taken from aircraft had declined dramatically during the crisis, by an average of 75-80 percen...
April 2020 tied for warmest on record: EU climate service
May 05, 2020 (AFP)
Temperatures were also well above average over parts of Greenland and Antarctica, accelerating the disintegration of kilometres-thick ice sheets that have becom...
'Catastrophic' drought hits Czech Republic: minister
Apr 29, 2020 (AFP)
This spring has seen rivers drop to levels significantly lower than the seasonal averages recorded in recent years also plagued by drought, according to officia...
US attacks China climate record on Earth Day
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
On the 50th anniversary of the international day of environmental awareness, the Trump administration indicated the steady decline in US carbon emissions over t...
2019 was Europe's hottest year ever: EU
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
In its annual report on the state of the climate, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that 11 of the continent's 12 warmest years on record ha...
Fight climate change like coronavirus: UN
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization said it was time to flatten the curve on climate change as well, with its impact on the planet "reaching a crescendo"...
Pandemic cuts both ways for climate change
Apr 21, 2020 (AFP)
The Chinese term for "crisis" (weiji) is famously composed of two characters, one meaning "danger" and the other "opportunity". For now, economists see a lot mo...
Megadrought emerging in western US, says study
Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)
A new study says the time has arrived: a megadrought as bad or worse than anything even from known prehistory is very likely in progress, and warming climate is...
Paris climate goals failure 'could cost world $600 tn'
Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)
Under the landmark 2015 accord, countries pledged to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels in order to limit global tempe...
March 2020 among hottest on record: EU
Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said March 2020 was 0.68 degrees Celsius warmer than the average March from 1981 to 2010, and on par with March 2017...
Singapore police probe 'climate protesters'
Apr 03, 2020 (AFP)
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg's "Fridays for Future" strikes have seen students worldwide abandon classrooms, as they call on adults to commit to saving ...
Climate-related disasters increase risks of conflict in vulnerable countries
Apr 03, 2020 (SPX)
Lead author Tobias Ide from the University of Melbourne said the disasters include storms, floods and droughts - the frequency and intensity of which will incre...
Coronavirus having little impact on climate; COP26 postponed
Apr 02, 2020 (AFP)
Any reductions in pollution and carbon dioxide emissions are likely to be temporary, said Lars Peter Riishojgaard, from the infrastructure department of the WMO...
Stickleback study shows epigenetic changes key to climate change adaptation
Mar 23, 2020 (UPI)
In a new study, scientists used a fish model from the Baltic Sea, the three-spined stickleback, to observe the affects of epigenetics on adaptation. "Our experi...
Indian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia
Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)
The work led by The Australian National University (ANU) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes has a silver lining, helping to improve our under...
The right dose of geoengineering could reduce climate change risks
Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)
Previous research shows that solar geoengineering could be achieved using commercially available aircraft technologies to deliver the particles at a cost of a f...
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