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GEOS-U Satellite to Monitor Environmental Hazards
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the GEOS-U satellite into orbit on June 25 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it is expected to...
2020 Ties With 2016 as World’s Hottest Year on Record
Last year tied with 2016 as the world’s warmest year on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service...
Climate Science Informs COP25
The latest climate science from WMO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is informing negotiations at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference.The 25th session of the Conference of the Parties...
77 Health Organizations Call for Climate Action to Fight Public Health Emergency
More than 70 leading public health groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, agree that the climate crisis is also a health emergency.So far 77 organizations representing...
EPA Releases Report Advising Communities to Prepare for Climate Change-Related Disasters
Policymakers at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a report in the Federal Register outlining how local communities should start planning for near-future catastrophes associated with climate change.As first reported by...
Cuba’s Tobacco Growers Confront Climate Change
Looking at the plain, one-story wooden shacks that dot the countryside in Cuba's vuelta abajo region, one would never guess that the farmers here grow one of the island's most valuable natural...
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...
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...
Climate Change May Be Slowing Hurricanes, Leading to More Flood-Heavy Storms
Two studies published within two months of each other show that typhoons and hurricanes are getting slower, and are expected to slow even more as the planet warms, suggesting that climate change...
