Researchers urge caution with 'net zero' in climate policy
While a trend reversal in global CO₂ emissions is still yet to come, more and more countries are announcing the goal of "net zero" by mid-century.
While a trend reversal in global CO₂ emissions is still yet to come, more and more countries are announcing the goal of "net zero" by mid-century.
Earth Sciences
Dec 4, 2023
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The effects of climate change are increasingly tangible. Reforms at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could serve to increase its political clout and thus advance the battle against global warming, argues ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2023
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A new study published Nov. 23 in Nature Climate Change reveals that forests formally managed by Indigenous and local communities have improved outcomes for carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods, simultaneously addressing three ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2023
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In a study published in Nature Climate Change, researchers led by Prof. Zhu Jiaojun from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reported a mycorrhizae-mediated trade-off between plant ...
Ecology
Nov 20, 2023
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Greenland's thousands of peripheral glaciers have entered a new and widespread state of rapid retreat, a Northwestern University and University of Copenhagen study has found.
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
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In a little more than five years—sometime in early 2029—the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current ...
Environment
Nov 4, 2023
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Climate change is impeding the human rights of a large group of people living in the Pacific, a new report in Nature Climate Change reveals.
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2023
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Destructive winds that flow out of thunderstorms in the central United States are becoming more widespread with warming temperatures, according to new research by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2023
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If humanity wants to have a 50/50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit 250 another gigatons (billion metric tons) of CO2. This effectively gives the world just six years to get to net zero, according ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2023
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The nutrients available from seafood could drop by 30% for low-income countries by the end of the century due to climate change, suggests new University of British Columbia research.
Environment
Oct 30, 2023
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