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New research identifies two types of drought across China and how they evolve
Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)
Dr. Linying WANG and Professor Xing YUAN, from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used in-situ observations and reanalysis datas...
Protecting nature the best way to keep planet cool: report
Oct 15, 2018 (AFP)
Restoring natural forest ecosystems, securing the land rights of local communities and revamping the global food system could cut greenhouse emissions 40 percen...
Does climate vary more from century to century when it is warmer?
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in Nature Communications and funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC), reveal...
WSU Vancouver climate scientist sees stage set for reprise of worst known drought, famine
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
She warns that the Earth's current warming climate could make a similar drought even worse. Deepti Singh, an assistant professor in WSU's School of the Environm...
Global warming boosts century-to-century variability, study finds
Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)
When scientists compared the century-scale climate variability during the last interglacial period, between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, with variability duri...
New World Bank fund to insure against climate disasters
Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement follows a string of recent natural disasters across the world including record storms and a series of deadly quakes in Indonesia, where the Ban...
Geoengineering, other technologies won't solve climate woes
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
"We can't rely on geoengineering to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement," says Helene Muri, a researcher from the Norwegian University of Science and Technolo...
Role of 'natural factors' on recent climate change underestimated, research shows
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
Pioneering new research has given a new perspective on the crucial role that 'natural factors' play in global warming. The study, by Dr Indrani Roy at the Unive...
With climate change fiction, novelists aim for 'radical empathy'
Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)
Dubbed "cli-fi", the genre has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years as environmental changes sweep the globe and tales of a planet in turmoil appear ...
Cost of climate-linked disasters soars: UN
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) noted that "climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events" su...
Dutch court tells government to slash greenhouse gas
Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)
The Hague appeals court upheld a 2015 court victory by environmental rights group Urgenda, which sought to force a national reduction of emissions blamed for gl...
Trump questions UN global warming report
Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)
The landmark report released Monday said that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) decla...
UN warns paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaos
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) -- enough to lift oceans and unleash a crescendo of deadly storms, floods and droughts --...
Crisis management: Seven ways to engineer climate
Oct 08, 2018 (AFP)
"Plan A" remains tackling the problem at its source. But a major UN climate science report released in South Korea on Monday makes it clear that slashing carbon...
Avoiding climate chaos means 'unprecedented' change: UN report
Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)
Working through the night, the closed-door huddle in rain-soaked Incheon, South Korea, was to convene a plenary later in the day to hammer through a "Summary fo...
Climate changing faster than feared, but why are we surprised?
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
Virtually none, however, suggest that previous predictions of future heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods or rising seas were overblown. And so, as the world's n...
Experiencing extreme weather is not enough to convince climate change skeptics
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
Political bias and partisan news reporting influence whether people report experiencing certain extreme weather events, the research suggests. But Americans who...
UN report on global warming target puts governments on the spot
Oct 01, 2018 (AFP)
"This will be one of the most important meetings in IPCC history," Hoesung Lee, chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told delegates at t...
World leaders gather to breathe new life into Paris accord
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
The "One Planet Summit," launched last year by French President Emmanuel Macron, aims to accelerate the implementation of the 2015 pact. "We are not here just t...
Tropics are widening as predicted by climate models, research finds
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
A new paper co-authored by Indiana University Bloomington researcher Paul Staten, however, finds that the most up-to-date models and the best data match up reas...
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