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10 Worst-Case Climate Predictions if We Don’t Keep Global Temperatures Under 1.5 Degrees Celsius
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat. Although scientists exercise great care before linking individual weather events to climate change, the rise in global...
The Past 5 Years Were the Arctic’s Warmest on Record
The Arctic is still warming at twice the rate of anywhere else on Earth, and the region's air temperatures in the past five years between 2014-2018 have exceeded all previous records since 1900, according...
Beef-Eating ‘Must Fall Drastically’ as World Population Grows
People in rich nations will have to make big cuts to the amount of beef and lamb they eat if the world is to be able to feed 10 billion people, according...
Solar Geoengineering Could Be ‘Remarkably Inexpensive’ – Report
Cooling the Earth by injecting sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere could be “remarkably inexpensive”, according to the most detailed engineering analysis to date.The fear of a rogue nation or military force unilaterally...
New Bear on the Block: Grizzlies Spotted in Black and Polar Bear Habitats
For the first time, scientists have observed three American bear species—the black bear, polar bear and grizzly bear—using the same habitat in Canada's Wapusk National Park."Scientifically, it has never been documented anywhere," Doug...
Tropics Could Face Six Climate Disasters at Once by 2100
In a year that saw record-breaking heat waves, record-breaking hurricanes and record-breaking wildfires, it's hard to imagine how the future could look any more like a disaster movie than the present. But that is exactly what...
Climate-Heating Greenhouse Gases at Record Levels, Says UN
Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are far above pre-industrial levels.The main greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change have all reached record levels, the UN’s meteorology experts have reported.
Carbon dioxide, methane and...
Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds
Hurricane rainfall could increase by a third and wind speeds boosted by up to 25 knots if global warming continues.
Climate change worsened the most destructive hurricanes of recent years, including Katrina, Irma and...
We Have 12 years to Limit Climate Change Catastrophe, Warns UN
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly...
London ‘Among Cities Sinking into the Sea’
Christian Aid says climate change means coastal cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding.
London is among the cities sinking into the oceans as climate change raises global sea levels.
That’s according to a new report from...
Build Walls on Seafloor to Stop Glaciers Melting, Scientists Say
Barriers could halt slide of undersea glaciers and hold back sea level rises predicted to result from global warming.
Building walls on the seafloor may become the next frontier of climate science, as...
World’s Largest River Floods Five Times More Often Than It Used to
Extreme floods have become more frequent in the Amazon Basin in just the last two to three decades, according to a new study.
After analyzing 113 years of Amazon River levels in Port...
Last Year Was Warmest Ever That Didn’t Feature an El Niño, Report Finds
Last year was the warmest ever recorded on Earth that didn’t feature an El Niño, a periodic climatic event that warms the Pacific Ocean, according to the annual state of the climate...
What Is ‘Hothouse Earth’, and How Bad Would Such a Climate Catastrophe Be?
Oceans engulfing coastal cities, coral reefs eliminated and vast swathes of the Earth left completely uninhabitable.
This is what we have to look forward to in a future “Hothouse Earth” – a planet...
Domino-Effect of Climate Events Could Move Earth into a ‘Hothouse’ State
A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile,...
World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Collapses by almost 90% in Space of 35 years
Number of pairs has fallen from 500,000 in the 1980s, to just 60,000 by 2017.
The world’s largest colony of king penguins has collapsed by almost 90 per cent over the last 35...
