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Scientists consider 'human-made volcano' to slow global warming
Aug 05, 2019 (UPI)
When a large amount of ash is spewed into the atmosphere, the particles reflect the sun's rays back toward space, lowering the temperature on Earth. In a new pa...
Healthcare industry responsible for 10 percent of U.S. carbon emissions
Aug 05, 2019 (UPI)
As doctors and healthcare researchers argue in a new paper on the subject -- published over the weekend in the journal JAMA -- industry leaders must do more to ...
Climate battle will 'succeed or fail' in Asia: UN
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
The United Nations will host a key climate summit next month that has been billed as a last chance to prevent irreversible climate change, three years after the...
Volcanoes shaped the climate before humankind
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
"Frequent volcanic eruptions caused an actual gear shift in the global climate system," says Stefan Bronnimann, head of the international research team that dis...
Incoming EU chief says to launch climate fund
Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)
She was speaking in Poland, a coal-dependent country which last month blocked an EU bid to set a target of zero net greenhouse gas emissions, and urged measures...
20th-century warming 'unmatched' in 2,000 years
Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)
As Europe sweltered in a second record-breaking heatwave in a month, the three peer-reviewed papers offered the most detailed overview of regional temperature t...
Politics and finance dog EU climate zero efforts
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
But experts say the 28 EU countries must accelerate measures on many fronts once they set the goal of emitting no more greenhouse gases than they absorb by 2050...
UN chief makes climate change plea in cyclone-hit Mozambique
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
"Mozambique's case must be a clear example to the world," he told reporters. "The larger nations must assume strong positions against global warming. "It's urge...
US banks must consider climate risk: Fed's Powell
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell agreed that climate change is causing more extreme weather events, and said financial institutions the Fed supervises are...
Dramatic warming projected in world's major cities by 2050
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
The changes will be even more dramatic for the world's major tropical cities like Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Singapore which will experience unprecedented clima...
Trump rails against Paris climate accord
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
Trump announced in June 2017 that the United States was pulling out of the Paris agreement, concluded in 2015 with almost every nation on the planet. The pact a...
More 'reactive' land surfaces cooled the Earth down
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
At that time the northern hemisphere was covered with massive ice masses and glaciers. A geoscientific paradigm, widespread for over twenty years, explains this...
When Drought Threatens Crops: NASA's Role in Famine Warnings
Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)
"In the 1970's the U.S. realized that drought impacts on global agriculture were severely affecting trade and food aid decisions, while ground based information...
French police under fire for teargassing climate activists
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner has ordered an investigation into the incident which took place on Friday during a protest by the "Extinction Rebellion" g...
UN chief urges action to avert climate change 'catastrophe'
Jun 30, 2019 (AFP)
"We are here because the world is facing a grave climate emergency," Guterres told a two-day Abu Dhabi Climate Meeting to prepare for a Climate Action Summit in...
G20 summit lays bare growing climate change division
Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)
While tensions over trade were expected at the talks in Japan's Osaka, reaching agreement on language about climate action has proved just as contentious. Negot...
Merkel: G20 to sign 'similar' climate deal to previous meet
Jun 29, 2019 (AFP)
"We will have a similar text to Argentina. A 19+1 declaration," Merkel told reporters on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Osaka. At the G20 meeting in Buenos A...
S.America-EU trade talks press on after Macron warning to Brazil
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
Ministers from the South American trade bloc known as Mercosur and top EU officials are hoping to seal what would be one of the world's biggest regional trade a...
US pressuring G20 allies on climate language: French official
Jun 28, 2019 (AFP)
"Three or four (countries) are under American pressure to water down the message," a French presidency source told reporters in Osaka, where leaders of the Grou...
Health warnings and speed limits as Europe bakes in heatwave
Jun 25, 2019 (AFP)
Meteorologists blamed a blast of torrid air from the Sahara for the unusually early summer heatwave, which could send thermometers above 40 degrees Celsius (104...
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