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Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
Apr 01, 2018 (AFP)
A world that heats up by 2C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) -- long regarded as the temperature ceiling for a climate-safe planet -- could see mass displacement due to...
Some US states press ahead on climate change goals, despite Trump
Apr 01, 2018 (AFP)
Yet supporters of the Paris climate change accord believe state-level efforts could mean the US will meet greenhouse gas emissions targets envisaged under the l...
New interactive map shows climate change everywhere in world
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
More than you might think, if you're a climate scientist. University of Cincinnati geography professor Tomasz Stepinski created a new interactive map that allow...
US on track to meet climate targets despite Trump: UN chief
Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)
Guterres said emissions-cutting plans put in motion by American businesses, regional governments and cities meant that the goals set by the former US administra...
New climate model developed by Russian and German scientists
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
"If we use models of the general circulation of atmosphere, then required calculations can take up months or years with the use of the most advanced modern comp...
Canada to miss 2020 climate target: audit
Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)
Canada had set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming by 17 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels, and by 30 percent by 2030. But En...
Cilmatologists render drought predictions that help avert famine
Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)
While much of that food insecurity relates to civil war and violence in places like South Sudan and Nigeria, a good portion also stems from a sequence of five s...
Dead tress across Mongolian lava field offer clues to past droughts
Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)
The research team developed a climate record stretching 2,060 years into Mongolia's past by using the natural archive of weather conditions stored in the annual...
Warming could threaten half of species in 33 key areas: report
Mar 14, 2018 (AFP)
The lower projection is based on a mercury rise of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels -- the warming ceiling the...
Climate protest prompts partial evacuation at Louvre
Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)
About a dozen protesters lay down on the floor in front of "The Raft of the Medusa", an iconic 19th-century painting by Theodore Gericault showing the shipwreck...
Desertification and monsoon climate change linked to shifts in ice volume and sea level
Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)
Huge areas of central China is covered by a plateau consisting of a fine grained soil type called loess - a sediment deposited here by winds during the Ice Age....
Trump hopefully will change his mind about climate: Bloomberg
Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)
The former New York mayor will be tasked with supporting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' plan to host a major summit next year to take stock of progress ...
Models show global warming could be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius
Mar 05, 2018 (UPI)
The different models consider a variety of political, socioeconomic and technological factors, including the impacts of economic inequality, energy demand and r...
Health savings outweigh costs of limiting global warming: study
Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)
It would cost $22.1 trillion (17.9 trillion euros) to $41.6 trillion between 2020 and 2050 for the world to hold average global warming under two degrees Celsiu...
Hidden 'rock moisture' could be key to understanding forest response to drought
Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)
This transitional zone beneath soils and above groundwater is often overlooked when it comes to studying hydrological processes, but researchers found that the ...
Life under extreme drought conditions
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
However, scientists have found microorganisms there. But it has remained unclear whether these environments support active microbial growth or whether the obser...
New understanding of ocean turbulence could improve climate models
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
The study was focused on a form of turbulence known as mesoscale eddies, ocean swirls on the scale of tens to hundreds of kilometers across that last anywhere f...
Extinct lakes of the American desert west
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Identification of ancient lake shoreline features began with early explorers of the continent. The first detailed studies were conducted by pioneering American ...
Even without the clean power plan, US can achieve Paris Agreement emissions reductions
Feb 19, 2018 (SPX)
Published in an Environmental Science and Technology viewpoint, the CMU team used data from U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2017 Annual Energy Outlook ...
Research identifies 'evolutionary rescue' areas for animals threatened by climate change
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
Twenty-one species of mammals and birds rely on the ability to change their coat color from brown in summer to white in winter to avoid fatal encounters with pr...
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