Showing posts with label climate-change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate-change. Show all posts

Indonesia: Jokowi announces Kalimantan to host Indonesia's new capital city

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Antara 16 Aug 19; Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo reiterated on Friday morning that Kalimantan Island would serve as a host for ...

Thirty-year study reveals cause of coral bleaching crisis

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Brooks Hays UPI 16 Jul 19; July 16 (UPI) -- Corals are disappearing across the world's oceans, and most scientists have pointed to wa...

Climate change made French heatwave 'more likely' in hottest June ever

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Marlowe HOOD, Patrick GALEY, AFP Yahoo News 3 Jul 19; Paris (AFP) - The record-breaking heatwave that gripped France last week was made a...

Climate change on track to reduce ocean wildlife by 17%

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Marlowe HOOD, AFP Yahoo News 13 Jun 19; Paris (AFP) - Climate change is set to empty the ocean of nearly a fifth of all living creatures,...

Melting ice sheets may cause 'climate chaos': study

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Marlowe HOOD, AFP Yahoo News 7 Feb 19; Paris (AFP) - Billions of tonnes of meltwater flowing into the world's oceans from the Greenla...

Antarctica is losing ice 6 times faster today than in 1980s

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SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Yahoo News 15 Jan 19; WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in ...

World's oceans are heating up at a quickening pace: study

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AFP Yahoo News 11 Jun 19; Tampa (AFP) - The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diver...

Caribbean swamped by seaweed that smells like rotten eggs

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From Belize to Barbados, tourist beaches have been swamped by huge tides of foul-smelling sargassum – and climate change could make the prob...

Humanitarians see surge in climate-related disasters

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Nina LARSON, AFP Yahoo News 12 Oct 18; Geneva (AFP) - The number of climate-related disasters around the world is growing rapidly, humani...

New El Niño weather event likely this winter says WMO

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Matt McGrath BBC 10 Sep 18; There's a 70% chance of a recurrence of the El Niño weather event before the end of this year, according ...

How vulnerable is Singapore to climate change?

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Country is exposed to hazardous impacts such as rising sea levels, higher temperatures Winston Chow Straits Times 6 Sep 18; Prolonged he...

Climate action could add $26 trillion to world economy: study

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AFP Yahoo News 5 Sep 18; Paris (AFP) - Ambitious action on climate change could contribute an extra $26 trillion to the world economy by ...

Crop losses to pests will soar as climate warms, study warns

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Rising temperatures make insects eat and breed more, leading to food losses growing world population cannot afford, say scientists Damian C...

Fish populations could rise in warming climate with better management

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Study finds potential for fisheries to benefit in future - as long as warming can be kept in check Fiona Harvey The Guardian 29 Aug 18; ...

Extreme temperatures 'especially likely for next four years'

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Cyclical natural phenomena that affect planet’s climate will amplify effect of manmade global warming, scientists warn Jonathan Watts The G...

Ten ways the planet could tip into 'Hothouse Earth'

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Marlowe HOOD AFP Yahoo News 7 Aug 18; Paris (AFP) - Even if humanity slashes greenhouse gas emissions in line with Paris climate treaty g...

Last year was warmest ever that didn't feature an El Niño, report finds

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State of the climate report found 2017 was the third warmest with a record high sea level and destructive coral bleaching Oliver Milman The...

Science Says Record Heat, Fires Worsened by Climate Change

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Scientists see the hand of climate change in heat records and fires breaking out globally this summer. SETH BORENSTEIN AND FRANK JORDANS, A...

Japan floods a warning of a changed climate

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Extreme weather in Japan, which led to a flood that claimed hundreds of lives, tells us that we need to face up to climate change, says one ...

Slowing Gulf Stream current to boost warming for 20 years

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Matt McGrath BBC 19 Jul 18; The prospect of the Gulf Stream slowing down and even stopping altogether has worried many experts in recent ...