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Jet-setting Davos elite frets about climate
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is one of the few places where environmental activists attend the same events as the private jet crowd, and get a chance...
Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Their study, published online in Nature Geoscience, provides new evidence of a climate feedback that could explain the long duration of the Paleocene-Eocene The...
Climate scientists close to forecasting near-term global warming impacts
Jan 22, 2019 (UPI)
But according to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists are finally starting to accurately simulate the influence of ...
UN warns trade disputes, climate could disrupt growth
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
The global economy is expected to continue growing at a steady pace of around 3 percent in 2019 and 2020 but there are signs the expansion has peaked, according...
World to miss 2020 climate 'turning point': analysis
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
Even as Earth is buffeted by superstorms, droughts and flooding made worse by rising seas, and as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise globally, an analysi...
Climate change a national security 'issue': Pentagon
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
The 22-page document looked at 79 "priority" facilities around the US and found many vulnerable to flooding and wildfires, as well as the impacts of desertifica...
How could artificial photosynthesis contribute to limiting global warming?
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has numerically simulated various scenarios. Only in the most optimistic scenario can the climate target st...
Warning to Davos: world 'sleep-walking' into climate disaster
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
An annual WEF report -- based on a survey of about 1,000 respondents drawn from the Davos community of company chiefs, politicians, civil society and academics ...
Geoscientists reconstruct 900-year Northeast climate record
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
First author Daniel Miller, with Helen Habicht and Benjamin Keisling, conducted this study as part of their doctoral programs with advisors geosciences professo...
Future of planet-cooling tech
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
Additional actions will be required, and one option is solar geoengineering, which could lower temperatures by methods such as reflecting sunlight away from the...
Climate model uncertainties ripe to be squeezed
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
Although the human impact of recent climate change is now clear, future climate change depends on how much additional greenhouse gas is emitted by humanity and ...
Prague experiences hottest year on record
Jan 05, 2019 (AFP)
"In 2018, the average annual temperature in Prague-Clementium was 12.8 degrees Celsius (55.04 Fahrenheit), or 3.2 degrees more compared to the average between 1...
A 'pacemaker' for North African climate
Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)
Now researchers at MIT have analyzed dust deposited off the coast of west Africa over the last 240,000 years, and found that the Sahara, and North Africa in gen...
Record backing for climate petition against French govt
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
By Friday morning the project, launched by four climate NGOs, had gained just under two million signatures a mere 10 days after going live. That already makes i...
Nations count cost of 2018 climate disasters
Dec 27, 2018 (AFP)
This year is set to be the fourth hottest on record and as planet-warming carbon and methane levels in the atmosphere continue to rise, extreme weather events s...
2018 hottest year for a century in France
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
"This year was the hottest France has known since modern meteorological measures came into use in 1900," Meteo-France said. The average temperature of 14 degree...
Australia on track to miss climate targets by wide margin
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
The Department of the Environment said the country is on course to meet the more modest 2020 targets, but will struggle to reduce emissions by 26-28 percent by ...
Research sheds new light on what drove last, long-term global climate shift
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by Dr Sev Kender from the University of Exeter, have found a fascinating new insight into the causes of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition...
Global warming did not pause as researchers disentangle hiatus confusion
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
In two recent studies, a group of international scientists joined forces to thoroughly disentangle any possible "hiatus" confusion, affirming that there was no ...
NGOs launch legal action against France over climate
Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)
It comes after similar action was launched by farmers in Germany, and the Dutch government lost a landmark case brought by an environmental rights group on cutt...
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