Tag: warming
Warming Climate and Agriculture Halve Insect Populations in Some Areas
The study published in Nature is the first to identify that an interaction between rising temperatures and land use changes, is driving widespread losses in…
UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
Climate and Environment A new flagship UN report on climate change out Monday indicating that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher…
Sea ice that slowed the flow of Antarctic glaciers abruptly shatters in three days
In just three days in late January, a mass of ice the size of Philadelphia fragmented from the Larsen-B embayment on the Antarctic Peninsula…
Global Warming Threatens the Existence of an Arctic Oasis
The most significant Arctic oasis is susceptible to climate change – researchers say that global warming is threatening the region’s ecosystem, and predict that…
“Reducing Global Warming Matters for Freshwater Fish Species”
The habitats of freshwater fish species are threatened by global warming, mainly due to rising water temperatures. A 3.2-degree Celsius increase in global mean temperature…
New study warns that sea levels will rise faster than expected
A new study has found that sea levels are rising faster than expected, which would put 40% of the world’s population living in coastal regions…
Human-Induced Climate Change Caused the Northwestern Pacific Warming Record in August 2020
August 2020 set new record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and around the Japan coasts. August 2020 set new record…
Planet-warming trend continues: 2020 closes hottest decade on record – UN weather agency
As 2020 draws to a close, it leaves in its wake the warmest decade on record and one of the three hottest years ever measured,…
Coasts Drown as Coral Reefs Collapse Under Warming & Acidification
A new study shows the coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to…
Arctic Ocean Sediments Reveal Permafrost Thawing During Past Climate Warming
A multidisciplinary team from Stockholm University has found evidence of past permafrost thawing during climate warming events at the end of the last ice age….
September was the world’s hottest on record, EU climate change service says
Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South…
Australia Floats Plan to Better Protect Great Barrier Reef
Australian officials plan to redouble their efforts to save the Great Barrier Reef from the effects of global warming. The world’s largest coral reef system…
’Canary in the coal mine’: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds by Reuters
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces…
Last year was one of three warmest on record, researchers find
Last year was one of the three warmest on record, with glaciers melting, sea levels rising and a spate of wildfires, heatwaves and droughts, research…
UN: World could hit 1.5-degree warming threshold in 5 years
The world could see average global temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average for the first time in the coming five years,…
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