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In Peru’s Deserts, Melting Glaciers Are a Godsend (Until They’re Gone)
Accelerating glacial melt in the Andes caused by climate change has set off a gold rush downstream, letting the desert bloom. But as the ice vanishes, the vast farms below may do the same.
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The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid
The work of saving the planet is not technical, it’s political. By Benjamin Y. Fong.
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Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade
Think of the stickiest, record-hot summer you've ever experienced, whether you're 30 or 60 years old. In 10 years or less, that miserable summer will happen every second year across most of the US and Canada, the Mediterranean, and much of Asia, according to a study to be published in the open access journal Earth's Future.
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What they don’t tell you about climate change
Stopping the flow of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is not enough. It has to be sucked out, too.
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Arctic warming happening faster than previously thought, report says
An international summary of five year's worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought. And if it all sounds interesting but a little far removed from southern concerns, David Barber has news for you. "There are very clear linkages there and they've been occurring consistently for the last 10, 15 years," said Barber, one of Canada's top ice scientists and a prominent contributor to the report.
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Trump is wiping out the world's coral reef and small islands and we're not doing anything to stop it
The island nation of Fiji hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn last week, bringing attention to the plight of small islands under climate change. Fiji is already facing migration of its people, loss of coral reefs, and more intense cyclones such as the one last year that wiped out a third of its GDP. Fiji is also home to the Great Sea Reef, the third longest continuous barrier reef in the world.
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Trump’s Answer to Global Warming, in Bonn? Drill, Baby, Drill!
Every year around this time, negotiators from across the globe meet in one city or another—Montreal, Marrakech, Copenhagen, Paris—to resolve that the world really ought come up with a plan to do something about climate change. This year’s Conference of the Parties, the twenty-third such gathering, is taking place in Bonn, and in addition to the usual impediments to progress—mistrust, inequality, bad faith—there’s now the Trump Administration to contend with.
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Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?
CO₂ could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe. By Elizabeth Kolbert.
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Fossil fuel burning set to hit record high in 2017, scientists warn
The burning of fossil fuels around the world is set to hit a record high in 2017, climate scientists have warned, following three years of flat growth that raised hopes that a peak in global emissions had been reached. The expected jump in the carbon emissions that drive global warming is a “giant leap backwards for humankind”, according to some scientists. However, other experts said they were not alarmed, saying fluctuations in emissions are to be expected and that big polluters such as China are acting to cut emissions.
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From the Everglades to Kilimanjaro, climate change is destroying world wonders
From the Everglades in the US to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, climate change is destroying the many of the greatest wonders of the natural world. A new report on Monday from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals that the number of natural world heritage sites being damaged and at risk from global warming has almost doubled to 62 in the past three years. Those at high risk include iconic places from the Galapagos Islands to the central Amazon and less well known but equally...
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Climate change imperils one in four natural heritage sites: report
Climate change imperils one in four natural World Heritage sites, including coral reefs, glaciers, and wetlands -- nearly double the number from just three years ago, a report said Monday. The number of sites at risk has grown to 62 from 35 in 2014, when one in seven were listed, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which released the report at UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany.
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Al Gore: A new president in 2020 could keep US in Paris agreement
Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore on Saturday suggested the U.S. could remain in the Paris Climate Agreement if there’s a new president in 2020. “If there is a new president … a new president could simply give 30 days notice, and the United States is back in the agreement,” he told an audience at COP23, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.
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Michael Bloomberg’s ‘war on coal’ goes global with $50m fund
The battle to end coal-burning, backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is expanding out of the US and around the world in its bid to reduce the global warming threat posed by the most polluting fossil fuel. Bloomberg, a UN special envoy on climate change and former mayor of New York city, has funded a $164m campaign in the US since 2010, during which time more than half the nation’s coal-fired power plants have been closed.
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Let's stop debating climate change and start combating it
With the news Tuesday that Syria has officially joined the Paris climate agreement, the United States, under President Trump, will stand as the lone dissenting country when diplomats gather in Germany this week to hammer out the details for implementing the accord.
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Earth is ‘going to be a sizzling ball of fire by 2600,’ Stephen Hawking warns
Professor Stephen Hawking has come out with another of his cheery predictions of apocalypse – and this time, he reckons the world’s going to turn into a ‘ball of fire’. Garden chase after vandal throws brick through MP's window for waking him up Speaking via radio link in Beijing, the physicist says that soaring population and demands for energy will turn the world into a sizzling ball of fire by 2600.
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Syria signs Paris Climate Agreement leaving the US as the only country in the world not in it
Syria has become a signatory of the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not to support the framework deal to combat greenhouse gas emissions. When President Donald Trump announced he intended to pull the US out of the agreement, it initially meant America would join Nicaragua and Syria on a small list of countries who were not part of the deal.
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Trump not invited to Paris December climate change summit for now, says France
U.S. President Donald Trump, who pulled his country out of the 2015 Paris climate change deal, is "for the time being" not invited to a climate change summit due to be held in the French capital in December, an official in President Emmanuel Macron's office said.
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HSBC Commits $100 Billion to Combat Climate Change
HSBC Monday unveiled a raft of new commitments to fight climate change and cut the climate-related risks in its own business model. The U.K.-based bank, whose operations are increasingly concentrated in Asia, said it will make up to $100 billion available for financing low-carbon projects, while stopping the financing of mines that produce coal for power generation. It also promised to get all of its power from renewable sources by 2030.
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Paul McCartney Narrates Short Film on Climate Change, Animal Agriculture
Paul McCartney narrates a new short film about the devastating impact of animal agriculture on climate change, One Day a Week. The film is a collaboration between the McCartney family's Meat Free Monday campaign and French director Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Hope Production. It arrives ahead of the United Nations' upcoming Climate Change Conference.
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2017 set to be among 'hottest years recorded'
This year is “very likely” to be one of the warmest on record. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released provisional figures indicating that 2017 could be in the top three hottest years since records began. It is also likely to be the warmest in the absence of the El Niño phenomenon. The WMO says 2017 is competing with 2015 to be the second or third warmest recorded.
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