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Floods fail to end Australia's years-long drought
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
Stormy weather has brought days of chaos and destruction in the country's east, with one man missing after his car was swept off a road in Sydney's north and hu...
Climate takes centre stage at Siemens shareholder meet
Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)
Siemens "did not see the whole picture correctly and in time" when agreeing to supply rail signalling equipment to the planned Carmichael mine in Australia, Kae...
UK vows action after envoy slams plans for UN climate talks
Feb 04, 2020 (AFP)
In a speech ahead of the COP 26 talks in Glasgow in November, Johnson said the evidence of climate change was "overwhelming". At an event with naturalist and br...
Arctic permafrost thaw plays greater role in climate change than previously estimated
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
Permafrost, a perpetually frozen layer under the seasonally thawed surface layer of the ground, affects 18 million square kilometers at high latitudes or one qu...
Greta Thunberg puts Africa's climate activists in media spotlight
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
Vanessa Nakate of Uganda was at the heart of a viral debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos after she was cropped out of a news agency photo of young activ...
Moscow has warmest January on record
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
"The average temperature observed in Moscow in January was around zero degrees Celsius," Lyudmila Parshina, a meteorologist at Russia's weather service, Rosgidr...
Record heat forecast for coming years
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
In a regular "decadal forecast" looking at predicted near-term climate trends, it said that each year between 2020-2024 is set to be 1.06-1.62C hotter than hist...
UK newspaper Guardian bans fossil fuel adverts
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
"The ban will apply to any business primarily involved in extracting fossil fuels, including many of the world's largest polluters," said the paper. "Our decisi...
Hundreds of Amazon employees criticize firm's climate stance
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
More than 300 signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), which is pushing the company to go further in its climate change mitigat...
UN agency hails finding on climate refugees
Jan 24, 2020 (AFP)
"Whole communities are going to be at increasing risk," said Andrew Harper, special adviser for climate action at UNHCR, praising the UN Human Rights Committee'...
Mapping the path of climate change
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
In Chaos, by AIP Publishing, scientists Yayun Zheng, Fang Yang, Jinqiao Duan, Xu Sun, Ling Fu and Jurgen Kurths present detailed research on climate change shif...
Trump tears into environmental 'doom' mongers at Davos forum
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
Thunberg was in the audience in the Swiss Alps to hear the typically bullish speech by Trump, delivered just before the US Senate opened the crucial next stage ...
Thunberg condemns climate inaction as Trump joins Davos
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss Alps resort got under way seeking to thrash out dangers to both the environment and economy from...
Climate crisis could justify asylum claims: UN committee
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
The independent experts on the Human Rights Committee issued a non-binding but closely watched ruling in a case brought by Ioane Teitiota from the Pacific islan...
Trump and Thunberg face off as Davos warms to climate action
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
From climate change to tensions in the Middle East, via trade conflicts and fears of pandemics, the more than 3,000 delegates at the World Economic Forum will t...
NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
Jan 17, 2020 (SPX)
Globally, 2019 temperatures were second only to those of 2016 and continued the planet's long-term warming trend: the past five years have been the warmest of t...
Hungary unveils 'Christian democratic'-based climate strategy
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Published on the government's website, the National Energy and Climate Plan sets out targets including 90 percent carbon-neutral electricity production by 2030,...
UN warns more extreme weather ahead after hottest decade on record
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization, which based its findings on analysis of leading international datasets, said increases in global temperatures had already...
Davos bosses sound alarm over climate, political fires
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
Prior to the new decade's first conclave of global decision-makers, the World Economic Forum released a survey that it portrayed as a call to arms, after devast...
5,000 feral camels culled in drought-hit Australia
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
Aboriginal leaders in South Australia state said extremely large herds of the non-native camels had been driven towards rural communities by drought and extreme...
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