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The Arctic has helped absorb up to 25 per cent of the planet’s carbon dioxide, but climate change could turn it into a net emitter of the greenhouse gas, according to a new study. If that happens, the rate of global warming — already preceding faster than scientists had predicted
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A little ocean warming is proving to be a good thing for scallops in British waters, scientists have found — but continued warming could reverse that benefit. According to a study published in the journal Marine Biology, warmer oceans around the UK have led to increased stocks of the great scallop
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Greenbang’s weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim is to provide a numerical, week-to-week indicator of climate change developments. Items that qualify for listing in each week’s index include new climate data published in peer-reviewed academic journals and extreme
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Climate change appears to be changing wind patterns in the US Pacific Northwest, which contributes to the development of ocean “dead zones” in the area, according to researchers at Oregon State University (OSU). The scientists report the Pacific Ocean off Oregon’s coast again experienced low-oxygen waters near the seafloor
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Launched last month, our weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim is to provide a numerical, week-to-week indicator of climate change developments. Items that qualify for listing in each week’s index include new climate data published in peer-reviewed academic journals
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Doing nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions makes it likely we’ll see global warming of more than 4 degrees C by 2100, according to researchers at the Met Office Hadley Centre. If that happens, add scientists gathering at a climate conference in Oxford this week, we will no longer
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The Maldives, an nation of islands and atolls that stretches across the Indian Ocean, is also the lowest-lying country in the world with an average elevation of just 1.5 metres above sea level. That means its people are taking the threat of climate change and rising sea levels personally.
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Launched last week, our weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim is to provide a numerical, week-to-week indicator of climate change developments. Items that qualify for listing in each week’s index include new climate data published in peer-reviewed academic journals
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The US should be spending roughly $200 million on research into climate change’s impact on public health, but actually spends just $3 million — or 1.5 per cent of the recommended investment — in that area, according to a group of US researchers and environmental organisations. The analysis, published in
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Glaciers along the Antarctic coastline and across all latitudes in Greenland are thinning rapidly, according to the most comprehensive imaging yet created using satellite lasers. The findings are an important step forward in the quest to make more accurate predictions for future sea level rise as the climate changes, according
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To have any hope of success, a global climate change agreement must aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 50 gigatonnes of carbon-dioxide-equivalent today to 35 gigatonnes by 2030 and 20 gigatonnes by 2050, according to a new paper by Lord Nicholas Stern, former chief economist of the World Bank.
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Global collaboration could help cut CO2 emissions while increasing both GDP and employment in all the major economies, according to a report presented today by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and The Climate Group, an international NGO. “Cutting the cost: The economic benefits of collaborative climate action” was presented