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Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate change
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
This new organic proxy not only provides the most continuous record of CO2-concentrations ever, it also breaks a record in its time span, covering half a billio...
Campaigners target coal at UN climate summit
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
With nations locked in UN climate talks aimed at heading off runaway global warming, many parts of the world are already dealing with the storms, floods, fires ...
At-risk nations plead for 'justice' at UN climate summit
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
From glaciers melting in Nepal to the rising seas threatening to engulf small island states, the world is already experiencing the damage lying in wait if globa...
Study shows regions increasingly suffer hot, dry conditions at the same time
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
According to the researchers, climate change has doubled the odds that a region will suffer a year that is both warm and dry compared to the average for that pl...
World Bank promises $200 bn in 2021-25 climate cash
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
The World Bank said the move, coinciding with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland, represented a "significantly ramped up ambition" to tac...
Nations pressed to tackle 'urgent threats' at UN climate talks
Dec 02, 2018 (AFP)
The UN talks come at a crucial juncture in mankind's response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing...
Big Brussels climate march marks COP24 start
Dec 02, 2018 (AFP)
Organisers said the event was the biggest climate march ever in Belgium, with 65,000 protesters braving steady drizzle, according to police. The well-mannered c...
The Paris climate treaty: a snapshot
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
Key facts about the agreement: - The climate club - A total of 196 governments, including the Palestinian Authority, have endorsed the landmark deal and 183 hav...
Trump rejects Paris accord, but his diplomats are still negotiating
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
The fact that Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord signed in 2015 by his predecessor, Barack Obama, has ...
Grim tidings from science on climate change
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on humanity to block the rise in Earth's temperature at "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial...
Polluters in the room: big energy 'undermining' UN climate talks
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
As policymakers from around the world prepare to gather in Poland for the COP 24 summit to finalise the Paris climate promises, officials and campaigners said t...
Canada's Ontario disappoints with new climate plan
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
The nation's most populous province and its main economic engine wants to spend Can$400 million (US$300 million) over four years to help the private sector driv...
2018 temperatures set to be among hottest on record: UN
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
In a report released ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland, the World Meteorological Organization pointed out that the 20 warmest years on record have be...
High hopes and low expectations for UN climate summit
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
One thing all parties at the troubled UN talks agree on is that standing pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions fall dangerously short. These voluntary natio...
Global warming outpaces efforts to slow it: UN
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
With only a single degree Celsius of warming so far, the world has seen a crescendo of deadly wildfires, heatwaves and hurricanes. On current trends, temperatur...
UN climate talks need compromise, not stubbornness: UN chief
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
Guterres will join delegates from nearly 200 countries at the COP24 conference that opens Sunday in the southern Polish city of Katowice, with the aim of agreei...
EU urges members to submit ambitious climate plans
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
Delegations from more than 200 countries are due in Poland next week for the COP24 climate summit, aimed at renewing and building on the 2015 Paris accord and l...
Trump says doesn't believe own government's climate warning
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
"I don't believe it," Trump said at the White House, adding that the United States would not take measures to cut emissions if the same was not done in other co...
Could an anti-global warming atmospheric spraying program really work?
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
Those are the key findings of new research published in Environmental Research Letters, which looked at the capabilities and costs of various methods of deliver...
Climate change could cost US 'hundreds of billions' a year: study
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
"With continued growth in emissions at historic rates, annual losses in some economic sectors are projected to reach hundreds of billions of dollars by the end ...
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