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Leaders back climate change urgency in New York
Sep 24, 2018 (AFP)
With Poland hosting the COP 24 climate summit in December, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa called on nations to unite behind limiting global warming to the l...
Beavers have an impact on the climate
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
"An increase in the number of beavers has an impact on the climate since a rising water level affects the interaction between beaver ponds, water and air, as we...
Carbon taxes necessary in climate fight: World Bank chief
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
"We believe very strongly that we can send an economic signal by introducing a shadow price for carbon," Kristalina Georgieva told AFP, referring to a method of...
Buried pine trees offer clues on ancient climate change in the Mediterranean
Sep 18, 2018 (UPI)
During the so-called Allerød oscillation, a period lasting from 13,900 to 12,900 years ago, Europe was warm and wet. But surveys of sediment and ice cores sugg...
Global warming: Worrying lessons from the past
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
Based on the analysis of sediments from the southern slope of the Pyrenees, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) measured the impact of this warmin...
Optimism trumps despair at climate summit
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
"We are using the sky as an open sewer, it's insane," former US vice president Al Gore told the conference, noting that humanity belches 110 million tons of hea...
Evaluating the contribution of black carbon to climate change
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
Models that can accurately assess the warming effect of black carbon on our atmosphere are needed so that we can understand the contribution of these tiny carbo...
Regional and business leaders step into the climate breach
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
While deadlocked UN-led talks sputter towards a December summit of national leaders, the three day conference spread across San Francisco will unveil scores of ...
Drought, conflict and migration in Kenya
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
However, most existing studies on the topic use country-level or regional data that fail to capture how water shortages directly impact the risk of violence wit...
Low-carbon economy 'growth story of the century': Stern
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
A report released earlier this month by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, which he co-chairs, concludes that strategic investment today across f...
Aiming for zero: cities, companies ramp up climate goals
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
The mayors, governors, and CEOs from around the world have stepped into the climate breach with concrete action as UN talks to implement the Paris climate treat...
World faces uphill climate fight as US efforts fall short
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
As thousands of governors, mayors, CEOs and experts gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit, they were warned that a crescendo of efforts at the subnation...
Scientists pinpoint the key mechanism foe amplification of global warming
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
The high complexity of the climate system, however, has made it difficult for scientists to accurately predict the magnitude of global warming in the future and...
Prehistoric changes in vegetation help predict future of Earth's ecosystems
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
The current warming from climate change may drive an equally dramatic change in vegetation within the next 100 to 150 years unless greenhouse-gas emissions are ...
Episodic and intense rain caused by ancient global warming
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred about 56 Million years ago, is of great interest to climate scientists because it represents a rela...
Climate extremes 'key driver' behind rising global hunger: UN
Sep 11, 2018 (AFP)
Increasingly frequent shocks such as extreme rainfall or temperatures, as well as droughts, storms, and floods, helped push the number of undernourished people ...
Groundswell of climate action at 'summit' faces hard truths
Sep 11, 2018 (AFP)
The three-day Global Climate Action Summit, which kicks off Wednesday, will see hundreds of cities, regions and companies worth hundreds of billions pledge to r...
UN: Private pledges aren't enough to significantly curb carbon emissions
Sep 10, 2018 (UPI)
According to a new United Nations report on the emissions gap, non-state actors could play a "crucial role" in cutting carbon emissions. Researchers found pledg...
Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates head climate body
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
The commission, to be co-hosted by the Global Center on Adaptation, hosted by the Netherlands in partnership with the World Resources Institute, seeks to "convi...
'Hunger stones' tell Elbe's centuries-old tale of drought
Sep 10, 2018 (AFP)
The boulder in the town of Decin, north of the capital, Prague, is roughly the size of a van and bears the foreboding inscription, "If you can see me, then weep...
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