Climate change is affecting every region in the world, almost every sector, and people in both urban and rural settings, authors of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warn.
Environment
Feb 28, 2022
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A framework for identifying the most vulnerable marine species will boost global conservation and policy efforts against anthropogenic climate change.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2022
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Indigenous communities are at higher risk of hardship from climate-change-caused flooding because of pre-existing socioeconomic vulnerability, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2022
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Governments are considering calling for pulling the plug on coal power, the single biggest source of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, according to a draft deal under negotiation in U.N. climate talks.
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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We are engineers and scientists. We happen to be women, but first and foremost we are citizens of this planet who believe that immediate action is imperative to address the climate emergency.
Environment
Nov 10, 2021
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A Western University flood-control expert has developed the first Canada-wide maps showing how floodplains—including low-lying areas of major cities like Vancouver and Montreal—may become inundated in the next 80 years ...
Environment
Nov 4, 2021
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Aid workers warn that we are currently unprepared for the crises both caused and made worse by the climate emergency, and every year, the lives and livelihoods of millions of people are being destroyed by disasters, with ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2021
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The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unliveable extremes.
Environment
Oct 17, 2021
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It is not easy to predict how animals—from insects to fish—are going to respond to climate change and especially extremes of temperature. This lack of understanding hinders our ability to predict the vulnerability of ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2021
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The impacts of climate change strike hardest in socially and economically vulnerable communities; knowing this, researchers have constructed a variety of indices to try to identify populations most at risk. These datasets ...
Economics & Business
Aug 20, 2021
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