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United Nations Climate Panel Elects New Chair
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose reports establish scientific consensus on climate change, meets this week in Nairobi to elect a new chair.
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Urgent Climate Action Needed To Limit Warming To 1.5 Degrees: UN Report
The world is very likely to miss the most important climate target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels but drastic and urgent action in this decade can prevent it, a UN panel on climate change said i
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Andaman, Nicobar Islands May Not Be Habitable In Future: Report
Islands like Andaman and Nicobar might not be habitable in a few years due to rise in sea level and increase in climatic events like cyclones, said one of the key authors of a global report on climate change on Wednesday.
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Humanity Must Rescue Oceans To Rescue Itself, UN Warns
Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.
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Sea Levels Rising 2.5 Times Faster Due To Melting Of Ice Sheets: UN
Since 2005 seas have risen 2.5 times faster than during the 20th century mainly due to melting of ice sheets, and will likely jump four-fold again by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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"Unite Behind Science, Take Real Action": Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist demanded Wednesday that Congress "listen to the scientists" who were sounding the alarm on the threat of global warming.
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Oceans Heating Faster Than Previously Thought, Says Study
The world's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change.
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Time Running Out, Warns UN, Predicts 1.5C Global Warming As Early As 2030
Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster.
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Leaked UN Report Warns Of Rising Global Temperature, Catastrophic Impacts
Earth's temperature will cross the threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius, if urgent actions are not taken to curb global warming. The leaked final draft report of UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, "if emissions continue at their present rate, human induced warming will exceed 1.5 degree by around 2040."
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Donald Trump Says 'Nobody Really Knows' If Climate Change Is Real
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that "nobody really knows" whether climate change is real and that he is "studying" whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
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What The Earth Will Be Like In 10,000 Years, According To Scientists
A large group of climate scientists has made a bracing statement in the journal Nature Climate Change, arguing that we are mistaken if we think global warming is only a matter of the next 100 years or so - in fact, they say, we are locking in changes that will play out over as many as 10,000 years.
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Engineering Climate: From Pariah To Saviour?
Once dismissed as dangerous science fiction, schemes to stave off global warming by re-engineering Earth's climate may well gain in traction as a result of the Paris agreement.
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Ambition Of Paris Climate Talks Rises By Half A Degree
It would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, but a new global deal to combat climate change appears poised to set the world a much more ambitious target than expected, even if achieving that goal is far out of reach for now.
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Gangotri Glacier Getting Less Snowfall, Higher Temperatures
A research shows that the health of the majestic Gangotri glacier that feeds the river Ganges has been affected, as the maximum temperature in the region has shot up by 0.9 degree Celsius and snowfall reduced by 37 cm annually.
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Nuclear Power as Panacea for Climate Change? Experts divided
As delegates at a Paris summit haggle over how to curb global warming, the role of nuclear energy in limiting climate-changing emissions is the subject of fierce debate between champions and critics of atomic power.
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United Nations Climate Panel Elects New Chair
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose reports establish scientific consensus on climate change, meets this week in Nairobi to elect a new chair.
-
Urgent Climate Action Needed To Limit Warming To 1.5 Degrees: UN Report
The world is very likely to miss the most important climate target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels but drastic and urgent action in this decade can prevent it, a UN panel on climate change said i
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Andaman, Nicobar Islands May Not Be Habitable In Future: Report
Islands like Andaman and Nicobar might not be habitable in a few years due to rise in sea level and increase in climatic events like cyclones, said one of the key authors of a global report on climate change on Wednesday.
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Humanity Must Rescue Oceans To Rescue Itself, UN Warns
Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.
-
Sea Levels Rising 2.5 Times Faster Due To Melting Of Ice Sheets: UN
Since 2005 seas have risen 2.5 times faster than during the 20th century mainly due to melting of ice sheets, and will likely jump four-fold again by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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"Unite Behind Science, Take Real Action": Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
A 16-year-old Swedish climate activist demanded Wednesday that Congress "listen to the scientists" who were sounding the alarm on the threat of global warming.
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Oceans Heating Faster Than Previously Thought, Says Study
The world's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change.
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Time Running Out, Warns UN, Predicts 1.5C Global Warming As Early As 2030
Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday in a landmark report that warns time is running out to avert disaster.
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Leaked UN Report Warns Of Rising Global Temperature, Catastrophic Impacts
Earth's temperature will cross the threshold of 1.5 degree Celsius, if urgent actions are not taken to curb global warming. The leaked final draft report of UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned, "if emissions continue at their present rate, human induced warming will exceed 1.5 degree by around 2040."
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Donald Trump Says 'Nobody Really Knows' If Climate Change Is Real
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that "nobody really knows" whether climate change is real and that he is "studying" whether the United States should withdraw from the global warming agreement struck in Paris a year ago.
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What The Earth Will Be Like In 10,000 Years, According To Scientists
A large group of climate scientists has made a bracing statement in the journal Nature Climate Change, arguing that we are mistaken if we think global warming is only a matter of the next 100 years or so - in fact, they say, we are locking in changes that will play out over as many as 10,000 years.
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Engineering Climate: From Pariah To Saviour?
Once dismissed as dangerous science fiction, schemes to stave off global warming by re-engineering Earth's climate may well gain in traction as a result of the Paris agreement.
-
Ambition Of Paris Climate Talks Rises By Half A Degree
It would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, but a new global deal to combat climate change appears poised to set the world a much more ambitious target than expected, even if achieving that goal is far out of reach for now.
-
Gangotri Glacier Getting Less Snowfall, Higher Temperatures
A research shows that the health of the majestic Gangotri glacier that feeds the river Ganges has been affected, as the maximum temperature in the region has shot up by 0.9 degree Celsius and snowfall reduced by 37 cm annually.
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Nuclear Power as Panacea for Climate Change? Experts divided
As delegates at a Paris summit haggle over how to curb global warming, the role of nuclear energy in limiting climate-changing emissions is the subject of fierce debate between champions and critics of atomic power.
