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Nations round on US, allies as UN climate talks wrap up

Sep 09, 2018 (AFP)

Experts from around the world wrapped up discussions in Bangkok geared towards creating a comprehensive rulebook for countries to implement the landmark Paris A...

Conflict hinders Iran efforts to counter dust storms

Sep 08, 2018 (AFP)

"We signed agreements with the Iraqi and Syrian governments in 2010 and 2011 to help them counter the source of dust storms," Masoud Tajrishi told a news confer...

Think pink for a better view of climate change

Sep 07, 2018 (SPX)

Not familiar with pink noise? It's a random noise in which every octave contains the same amount of energy. Pink noise is found in systems ranging from earthqua...

Climate negotiator warns world 'out of time' to save islands

Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)

As well as losing land and infrastructure to encroaching oceans as the planet heats up, many islands are also facing extreme flooding and damage from tropical s...

Bangkok climate conference sounds alarm ahead of UN summit

Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)

The six-day UN conference opened with an urgent plea from delegates to finalise a "rule book" governing the Paris Agreement, the most ambitious global pact yet,...

Can crunch talks bring the Paris climate treaty to life?

Sep 02, 2018 (AFP)

This year is the deadline to finalise the "rule book" for the 2015 treaty, which calls for capping the rise in global temperatures at "well below" two degrees C...

California plain shows surprising winners and losers from prolonged drought

Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)

A long-term study led by the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley tracked how hundreds of species in this valley fared during the...

Rain brings relief to drought-stricken Australia farmers

Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)

Graziers have had to hand-feed sheep and cattle, sell down stock -- and in some cases even shoot them to end their suffering -- as they run out of hay and grain...

India's devastating rains match climate change forecasts

Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)

The monsoon rains upon which farmers in the southwestern state depend for their food and livelihoods dumped two-and-a-half times the normal amount of water acro...

NOAA: July was fourth-hottest on record

Aug 20, 2018 (UPI)

The agency said the average global temperature was 61.75 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.35 degrees above the 20th century average. It also marked the 42nd consecutive Ju...

Leadership fears see Australia PM back away from climate targets

Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)

With its heavy use of coal-fired power and relatively small population of 25 million, Australia is considered one of the world's worst per capita greenhouse gas...

Australia ramps up aid to farmers as drought bites

Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)

Farmers in eastern states are struggling with extreme aridity that has turned green pastures into dust, with the economies of local towns also suffering. "I wan...

Britain's dry summer reveals ancient sites

Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)

Aerial photographs have exposed patterns which reveal the sites of prehistoric settlements, burial mounds and Iron Age, Bronze Age and Roman farms. Among the ne...

Brace for extra-warm weather through 2022: study

Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)

The double whammy of climate change and so-called natural variability more than doubles the likelihood of "extreme warm events" in ocean surface waters, creatin...

Farmers in war-torn Afghanistan hit by worst drought in decades

Aug 12, 2018 (AFP)

A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country over the normally wet colder months decimated the winter harvest, threatening the already precariou...

NASA finds Amazon drought leaves long legacy of damage

Aug 10, 2018 (JPL)

A research team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and other institutions used satellite lidar data to map tree damage and mortality...

Earth at risk of heading towards 'hothouse Earth' state

Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)

An international team of scientists has published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showing that even if the carbon emission red...

Despair as crippling drought hammers Australian farmers

Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)

While the country is no stranger to "big drys" and its people have long had a reputation as resilient, the extreme conditions across swathes of Australia's east...

Ten ways the planet could tip into 'Hothouse Earth'

Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)

Under such a scenario, Earth's average temperature would stabilise 4 or 5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, rather than the 1.5 C to 2 C (2.7 or 3.6 ...

Ever-increasing CO2 levels could take us back to the tropical climate of Paleogene period

Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)

As seen from the ongoing heat wave, the knock-on effects of such extreme warmth include arid land and fires as well as impacts on health and infrastructure. The...