Population boom adds to city threats #ClimateChange #Population
A new Atlas of the Human Planet shows how the world’s rising urban population is adding to the impacts caused[…]
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US faces megadroughts and superstorms #ClimateChange
New studies warn that megadroughts and superstorms could become regular events in the US if burning fossil fuels continues. Climate change makes it[…]
Read moreRising emissions usher in climate reality era #ClimateChange
Global carbon dioxide concentrations have produced a new climate reality era, with emissions levels unlikely to fall for centuries ahead,[…]
Read more‘Go vegetarian’ call angers Irish farmers #CarbonFootprint #Vegetarian
Cattle farmers in Ireland object to former president’s suggestion that people must stop eating meat to help battle climate change.[…]
Read moreFossil fuel majors ignore climate crisis #BigOil #ClimateCrisis
Bill McKibben, the US environmentalist who is one of the world’s foremost authors and activists on issues of global warming,[…]
Read moreSolar cycle not to blame for warming #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
New research confirms that increased greenhouse gas levels − rather than solar radiation impacts − are the key factor in[…]
Read moreRice paddies raise methane threat #GrowingRice #Methane
Traditional growing of rice in flooded fields is bad for the staple crop’s future quality and produces vast amounts of methane[…]
Read moreOcean warming intensifies power of typhoons #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
The violence of typhoons that devastate Asian coastal regions is being magnified by rising sea surface temperatures caused by greenhouse[…]
Read moreHumans sparked warming nearly 200 years ago #ClimateChange
Human activity prompted an early start to global warming, scientists say – nearly 200 years ago, long before previous studies[…]
Read moreAsian carbon finds its way home #ClimateChange
India and China have good reason to cut their greenhouse emissions, scientists say: soot they are producing is damaging their[…]
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