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How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
When making sense of the massive amount of information packed into an ice core, scientists face a forensic challenge: how best to separate the useful informatio...
Nations agree milestone rulebook for Paris climate treaty
Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)
Delegates from nearly 200 states finalised a common rule book designed to deliver the Paris goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees...
'We are all climate skeptics': how to cope with global warming
Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)
As the world's nations met in Katowice, Poland to hammer out a climate rescue plan, Hamilton talked to AFP about how hard it is to wrap one's mind around the th...
Chile to replace Brazil as 2019 UN climate summit host
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
Brazil last month pulled out as host of the COP25 summit, set for late 2019, claiming that holding the negotiations would be too expensive. Its president-elect ...
Record-wet and record-dry months increased in regions worldwide
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
The study is the first to systematically analyze and quantify changes in record-breaking monthly rainfall events from all over the globe, based on data from rou...
UN climate talks 'deadlocked' on key issues: top China diplomat
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
Ministers working overnight along parallel negotiating tracks struggled to weave dozens of strands into a "rule book" that would bring to life the Paris Agreeme...
Indian Ocean may be more disruptive to tropical climate than previously believed
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
"The processes we have uncovered are particularly important for predicting future impacts of climate change," said Pedro DiNezio, a research associate at the Un...
Fijian PM's swansong as head of troubled UN climate talks
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
He handed over the baton to Poland this month in the Polish city of Katowice, where negotiators in the 195-nation forum are struggling to bring the landmark Par...
Climate talks must be rescued, warns UN chief
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at "well under" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degre...
US, Saudi, Russia 'insulted' key global warming report: Al Gore
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
A bloc of 44 small island nations -- many facing an existential threat from storm surges engorged by rising seas -- had called on the UN climate body to "welcom...
Small islands plead for action at UN climate talks
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
The COP24 summit in Poland is scheduled to finish at the end of the week but delegates are still worlds apart when it comes to agreeing on a rulebook making goo...
Saudi, US snub of climate report unsettles UN talks
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
It may also signal more direct involvement of Donald Trump's White House, they said, in the nitty-gritty of the troubled negotiations, which depend on painstaki...
Sports world must join climate change crusade, says IOC
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
At the 195-nation negotiations, the IOC and UN launched an initiative aimed to line up verifiable commitments from sports federations and clubs to cut carbon po...
Fashion giants commit to climate battle
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
"The fashion industry is always two steps ahead when it comes to defining world culture, so I am pleased to see it now also leading the way in terms of climate ...
France says protests no excuse to curb climate battle
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
The "yellow vests", clad in the luminous safety jackets carried by law in all French cars, began slowing or blocking traffic on roads around France last month i...
Trump attacks Paris climate agreement, cites France protests
Dec 08, 2018 (AFP)
His tweets came in the middle of UN climate talks in Poland, where nearly 200 nations have gathered to agree on a universal rulebook to make good on promises th...
New Zealand military braces for climate change battle
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
The NZDF said the impact of climate change in the neighbouring Pacific islands promised to be so extreme that providing humanitarian assistance could limit its ...
Climate crusading schoolgirl pleads next generation's case
Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)
Although it's her parent's generation and those before who have made climate change possible, it the billions of young people like her who will bare its brunt. ...
Climate from space art competition
Dec 04, 2018 (ESA)
ESA is hunting for a creative artist who can engage with the public on the wealth of climate data amassed by Earth observation satellites. The winner will be of...
The Terminator insists US will help battle climate change
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
In an interview on the sidelines of a UN climate summit in Poland this week, the Terminator actor and three-time Mr. Universe winner said he was on an "environm...
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