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Climate correction: when scientists get it wrong
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
The study was undertaken by some of the world's most pre-eminent climate scientists, using state-of-the-art modelling systems reviewed by their peers, and appea...
Drought-fueled dust storm blankets Sydney
Nov 22, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities warned residents of Sydney and other parts of New South Wales state who had respiratory or cardiovascular conditions to limit their time outdoors un...
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN
Nov 22, 2018 (AFP)
Ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland next month, top United Nations officials are again trying to raise the pressure on governments to meet the pledge o...
Greenhouse gasses triggering more changes than we can handle
Nov 21, 2018 (SPX)
An analysis of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers reveals 467 ways in which human health, food, water, economy, infrastructure, and security have been...
Online climate meet offers talkfest without the gas
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
The eco-friendly event stands in stark contrast to many other international political summits, which involve thousands of delegates jetting across the world to ...
Humanity faces simultaneous climate disasters: study
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
"Human society will be faced with the devastating combined impacts of multiple interacting climate hazards," said co-author Erik Franklin, a researcher at the U...
New US study reveals natural solutions can reduce global warming
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
The peer-reviewed study in Science Advances from The Nature Conservancy and 21 institutional partners found that nature's contribution could equal 21% of the na...
Record-breaking Alps postcard sends message against climate change
Nov 16, 2018 (AFP)
The mosaic of postcards, measuring 2,500 square metres (26,910 square feet), was laid out in the snow on the Aletsch glacier in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude o...
Climate control of Earth's critical zone
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Earth is popularly known as the "third rock from the sun," yet hard rock is rare at the ground surface. Scientists have dubbed the vegetation, soil and water-st...
Global warming has never stopped in the past hundred years
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
This episode has typically been termed the global warming hiatus or slowdown in warming. The hiatus is characterized as a near-zero trend over a period. Detecti...
Resources giants ramp up calls for Australia carbon tax
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
Australia is considered one of the world's worst per capita greenhouse gas polluters, and is a heavy user of coal-fired power. But Canberra has struggled to int...
Newly-elected Native American vows climate change fight
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
A 57-year-old member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, Haaland insists that indigenous rights are inextricably linked to climate change -- and vows to fight for "trib...
What happened in the past when the climate changed?
Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)
So suggests new research by Jade d'Alpoim Guedes of the University of California San Diego and Kyle Bocinsky of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorad...
Perilous times for Australia wildlife amid severe drought
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
The "big dry", lasting for several years in some areas, is turning vast swathes of lush green land across the continent's eastern interior brown. "There are lar...
'Big dry' drags on as Australia sets up drought-proof fund
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
Eastern Australia has been hit by a crippling drought -- in some areas for several years -- that has forced graziers to hand-feed their stock, sell them or even...
Exxon Mobil sued in US over climate disclosures
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court, asserts the oil giant misled investors into believing the company was adequately accounting for potential climate cha...
UN climate chief calls for action plan at COP24 summit
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
World leaders have been trying to breathe new life into the Paris Agreement amid backsliding from several nations over commitments made when it was signed in De...
Drought cripples crucial German waterways
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
Months of scarce rainfall and hot sunny weather drove water levels on the Rhine to a record low, forcing ship operators to suspend services to keep vessels from...
Canada to impose carbon tax on provinces bucking climate action
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
The provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick will be subject to the Can$20 (US$15) per tonne levy as of January 1, rising to Can$50 in 202...
Hotter temps, human activity explain increase in storm runoff, flash floods
Oct 22, 2018 (UPI)
But the simulations also showed runoff extremes, not precipitation, correlated most closely with human-caused climate and land-use changes. In other words, the ...
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