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Scientists to study urban heat island effect using water tunnel
Jun 18, 2018 (UPI)
Like many places, Switzerland has experienced increasingly warmer temperatures over the last several years. The problem is pronounced in urban centers. In citie...
European leaders take climate agenda on a road trip
Jun 15, 2018 (UPI)
The European Commission outlined schedules Friday for upcoming climate events. Next week, Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete heads to B...
Germany admits will fall far short of 2020 climate target
Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)
Rather than cutting emissions of the greenhouse gas by 40 percent compared with 1990 levels, Europe's largest economy will manage reductions of just 32 percent,...
S.Africa lifts state of disaster over drought
Jun 13, 2018 (AFP)
The three-year drought hit Cape Town particularly hard, threatening to leave residents of the country's second largest city without drinking water. The governme...
Global warming can be limited by changing how we travel, heat homes, use devices
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
A new study published in Nature Energy shows that dramatic transformations in the way we move around, heat and cool our homes, and buy and use devices and appli...
Can any civilization make it through climate change?
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
Astrophysicist Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, is part of a group of researchers who have taken the first steps...
UNH researchers shine a light on more accurate way to estimate climate change
Jun 12, 2018 (SPX)
Now, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have taken that one step further. By using satellite data from different major land-based ecosystems around ...
Rising CO2 poses bigger climate threat than warming, study says
Jun 12, 2018 (UPI)
Broadly speaking, more CO2 translates to higher temperatures, but the relationship between atmosphere and climate is complex, and scientists say there are scena...
'Water is life': Ivory Coast city struggles with crippling drought
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
In Bouake, Ivory Coast's second city, the regular water supply trickled to a halt three months ago -- a shortage that officials blame on a drought inflicted by ...
European Commission wants more climate funding
Jun 01, 2018 (UPI)
"The European Union is a global leader for environmental protection and climate action," European Commissioner for Environment Karmenu Vella said in a statement...
Dutch govt appeals landmark greenhouse gases ruling
May 28, 2018 (AFP)
"The current government is already extraordinarily active in terms of climate," lawyer Bert-Jan Houtzagers told the Hague Appeals Court. Three years ago some 90...
Dusty rainfall records reveal new understanding of Earth's long-term climate
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The standard explanation of the Earth's regular shifts from ice ages to warm periods was developed by Milutin Milankovitch in the 1920s. He suggested the oscill...
Families from 8 countries sue EU over climate change
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
They insist the bloc must do more to limit climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and point to drought, glacier melt, sea level rise and flooding th...
1.5C cap on warming saves global economy trillions: study
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Four-fifths of countries and 90 percent of the global population, in other words, stand to reap major economic benefits by avoiding costs linked to higher tempe...
NASA's new chief changes mind, now believes in climate change
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
"The National Climate Assessment that includes NASA and it includes the Department of Energy, and it includes NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis...
Climate change in Quebec equals a much greater diversity of species?
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes in the presence of 529 species in about 1/3 of the protected areas in southern Quebec almost ...
Schwarzenegger urges Trump to 'join us' on climate action
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
"To those of you who resist because you can't imagine success without fossil fuels, we ask you to join us, every one, also you President Trump - join us," said ...
GRACE-FO Will Help Monitor Droughts
May 15, 2018 (JPL)
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission was the first satellite system to directly measure global changes in the water stored underground...
Projecting climate change along the Millennium Silk Road in a warmer world
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
In a recently published study in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, pro...
Lives in the balance as UN debates climate finance
May 09, 2018 (AFP)
Rich countries are slowly opening the spigots to help reinforce coastlines sinking under rising seas, convert agriculture to drought-resistant crops, or switch ...
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