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Climate Change

Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth’s climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth’s climate. The current rise in global temperatures is driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases absorb some of the heat that the Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary gas driving global warming, has increased in concentration by about 50% since the pre-industrial era to levels not seen for millions of years.
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Planetary Responsibility Foundation Invests in Pioneering Nature Restoration CompanyNews

Planetary Responsibility Foundation Invests in Pioneering Nature Restoration Company

The Danish Planetary Responsibility Foundation (PRF) has made a strategic investment in the British company Ponterra Ltd. With this investment, PRF becomes a shareholder of…
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Local bright spot among melting glaciers: 2000 km of Antarctic ice-covered coastline has been stable for 85 yearsClimate

Local bright spot among melting glaciers: 2000 km of Antarctic ice-covered coastline has been stable for 85 years

By University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science A whaler's forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers at the University of Copenhagen the most detailed…
SourceSourceMay 30, 2024 Full article
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Report card shows Great Barrier Reef still has major water pollution problemClimate

Report card shows Great Barrier Reef still has major water pollution problem

By Australian Marine Conservation Society Australian and Queensland govts have made little progress in cutting Reef water pollution in two years, will miss 2025 pollution…
SourceSourceMay 30, 2024 Full article
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First use of weather forecasts to show human impact on extreme weather is ‘transformational’, Oxford scientists sayClimateScience

First use of weather forecasts to show human impact on extreme weather is ‘transformational’, Oxford scientists say

By University of Oxford National forecasting centres like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behaviour…
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Health risk from global warming predictor of city climate action during COVID-19Climate

Health risk from global warming predictor of city climate action during COVID-19

By Hayley Dunning | Imperial College London Cities around the world were more likely to maintain climate action and enact ‘green recovery’ long-term plans after…
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Why Malaysia has a stake in preserving AntarcticaClimate

Why Malaysia has a stake in preserving Antarctica

By Wan Mohd Rauhan Wan Hussin, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu in Kuala Terengganu The global sea level rise due to the melting ice poses a serious…
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Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first timeScience

Global activity of seafloor biodiversity mapped for the first time

By University of Southampton A team of scientists from the USA and UK has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2024 Full article
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Improved refrigeration could save nearly half of the 1.3* billion tons of food wasted each year globallyClimate

Improved refrigeration could save nearly half of the 1.3* billion tons of food wasted each year globally

By University of Michigan About a third of the food produced globally each year goes to waste, while approximately 800 million people suffer from hunger,…
SourceSourceMay 29, 2024 Full article
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EarthCARE satellite to probe how clouds affect climateClimateNews

EarthCARE satellite to probe how clouds affect climate

By Patrick T. FALLON with Juliette COLLEN in Paris | AFP Vandenberg Air Force Base, United States (UPDATED) - A rocket carrying a sophisticated satellite…
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US announces ‘guardrails’ for controversial carbon markets to succeedNews

US announces ‘guardrails’ for controversial carbon markets to succeed

By Issam Ahmed with Nick Perry in Paris | AFP Washington, United States (UPDATED) - President Joe Biden's administration announced new "guardrails" to help ensure…
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Cases of bacterial disease rise in Brazil’s flooded southNews

Cases of bacterial disease rise in Brazil’s flooded south

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | AFP - Brazilian authorities on Tuesday reported an increase in cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease transmitted by rats, in…
SourceSourceMay 28, 2024 Full article
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Deadly Bangladesh cyclone one of longest seenClimateNews

Deadly Bangladesh cyclone one of longest seen

By Mohammad MAZED and Shafiqul ALAM in Dhaka | AFP Patuakhali, Bangladesh (UPDATED) - Bangladeshi weather experts said Tuesday that a deadly cyclone that carved…
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado higher than in Amazon: reportNews

Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado higher than in Amazon: report

Sao Paulo, Brazil | AFP - Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, a vast tropical savanna renowned for its rich biodiversity, increased sharply in 2023 and…
SourceSourceMay 28, 2024 Full article
Submerged homes, heat waves fuel Mexico climate angstNews

Submerged homes, heat waves fuel Mexico climate angst

By Yussel Gonzalez | AFP El Bosque, Mexico - Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village slowly being swallowed by the sea --…
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Rights court takes climate crisis hearing to Brazilian AmazonNews

Rights court takes climate crisis hearing to Brazilian Amazon

Brasília, Brazil | AFP - Academics, activists and Indigenous people gathered Monday in the Brazilian Amazon to weigh in on a key legal question: What…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
World’s island states blame richest countries for climate threatsClimateNews

World’s island states blame richest countries for climate threats

By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS | AFP United Nations, United States (UPDATED) - Extremely vulnerable to climate change, not rich enough to stop it on their own,…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
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Exceptionally early heatwave hits FinlandNews

Exceptionally early heatwave hits Finland

Helsinki, Finland | AFP - Finland has been experiencing unusually warm weather this May, prompting the Meteorological Institute to issue a heat warning on Monday.…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
France’s historic D-Day beaches threatened by rising sea levelsNews

France’s historic D-Day beaches threatened by rising sea levels

By Matthieu CLAVEL | AFP Caen, France - As France prepares to mark 80 years since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, the…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
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From wild to domesticated: Scientists reveal 100,000 years of continuous rice evolutionScience

From wild to domesticated: Scientists reveal 100,000 years of continuous rice evolution

By Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences According to a study published in Science on May 24, scientists have used phytolith analysis and other methods…
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Kenyan fishers face increased drowning risk from climate changeClimateScience

Kenyan fishers face increased drowning risk from climate change

By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell University Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to…
SourceSourceMay 27, 2024 Full article
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Machine learning accelerates discovery of high-performance metal oxide catalystsScience

Machine learning accelerates discovery of high-performance metal oxide catalysts

Researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to significantly advance the discovery and optimization of multicomponent metal oxide electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction…
SourceSourceMay 26, 2024 Full article
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Mexico City records highest-ever temperature of 34.7 CNews

Mexico City records highest-ever temperature of 34.7 C

Mexico City, Mexico | AFP - Mexico City recorded its highest-ever temperature on Saturday when thermometers hit 34.7 degrees Celsius (94.46 degrees Fahrenheit) as a…
SourceSourceMay 26, 2024 Full article
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EarthCARE satellite to probe how clouds affect climateNews

EarthCARE satellite to probe how clouds affect climate

By Juliette Collen | AFP Paris, France - Will clouds help cool or warm our world in the years ahead? The EarthCARE satellite will soon…
SourceSourceMay 26, 2024 Full article
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NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satelliteNews

NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satellite

Washington, United States (AFP) - A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring…
SourceSourceMay 25, 2024 Full article