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Climate activist Thunberg urges EU to double carbon reduction targets
Feb 21, 2019 (AFP)
At an EU conference, Thunberg warned that politicians who fail to tackle climate change will be "remembered as the greatest villains of all time" for leading th...
Climate change: Winters of future will be colder -- and also warmer
Feb 20, 2019 (UPI)
In other words, winters in the future will be -- rather counter-intuitively -- both warmer and colder. Earth's temperature is rising as a result of global warmi...
These climate activists want you to give up hope
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
The fledging movement's growing ranks, already spread across several dozen countries, believe that homo sapiens -- perhaps not so "wise" after all -- is doomed ...
Thousands of UK kids skip school for climate protests
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
Children of all ages chanted "save our planet", cheered as flares were lit and clambered onto statues in the shadow of Big Ben to call for action, and to raise ...
Climate change: Scientists tap nature, space and society
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
Thomas Crowther will identify long-disappeared forests available for restoration across the world. He will describe how data from thousands of soil samples coll...
Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
A new study and interactive web application aim to help the public understand how climate change will impact the lives of people who live in urban areas of the ...
With despair and hope, Berlin film fest tackles climate change
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
Among the Berlin festival's highlights is "Anthropocene: the Human Epoch" filmed over three years on six continents, with stunning panoramic shots to show the d...
Climate change risks US bases, fuels social disorder: top admiral
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
Admiral Philip Davidson, who heads the US military's vast Indo-Pacific Command, told lawmakers he concurred with a recent assessment from the US intelligence co...
Forecast suggests Earth's warmest period on record
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
The figures released by the Met Office include data from a number of sources including the latest publication of provisional figures for 2018 and the publicatio...
Last 4 years hottest on record, UN confirms
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
The UN's World Meterological Organization said in November that 2018 was set to be the fourth warmest year in recorded history, stressing the urgent need for ac...
US shivers as extreme cold invades, but is this climate change?
Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)
Experts say it could be, but whether global warming plays a role in this particular extreme weather phenomenon is still up for debate. Here's why: - What is a p...
Study: Climate change reshaping how heat moves around globe
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
"The greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide aren't the only issues to consider as the planet grows warmer - they are just one part of the equation. The way that t...
Space technology predicts droughts several months in advance
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
ANU researcher Siyuan Tian said the team knew they needed to move into space to get closer to understanding the complex nature of drought. They used data from m...
Tens of thousands protest in France, Belgium over climate crisis
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
Organisers said more than 80,000 people demonstrated in French towns and cities, while police in Brussels said 70,000 turned out in the Belgian capital. The dem...
UN Security Council divided on climate-security link
Jan 26, 2019 (AFP)
More than 80 people including about 15 ministers -- a record according to some diplomats -- were expected to air their views at the Council debate about the imp...
2018 was fourth hottest year on record: researchers
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
Temperatures in 2018 were around 1.16 degrees Celsius (2.09 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average temperature of the second half of the 19th century, from 1850-...
'I want you to panic': Swedish teen raises climate alarm at Davos
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
Greta Thunberg blinks into the cameras of the media throng as she emerges timidly from a closed-door panel discussion at the World Economic Forum, the annual ge...
UN chief warns 'we are losing the race' on climate change
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
"Climate change is the defining issue of our time. We are losing the race," he said on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos. "It is absolutely centr...
Time to 'get angry', teen climate activist says in Davos
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
The 16-year-old has galvanised protests by schoolchildren around the world, after delivering a fiery speech to world leaders at last month's UN climate talks in...
'We are losing the race' on climate change: UN chief
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
Guterres delivered a no-holds-barred appraisal to business and political leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which has featured much hand-wri...
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