Avainsana: climate change

Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Although methane from cows doesn’t live as long in the atmosphere as carbon…

    The US research might have wide-ranging global implications by showing that landfilling is playing a bigger role in accelerating climate change than regulators…

UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help protect some of the rarest plants and insects, research at the…

A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but on the UN’s World Migratory Bird Day experts…

Based on an energy system transition model created at LUT University, a new study describes a scenario where the 1.5°C climate target in the energy…

Warming waters have driven thousands of ocean species poleward from the equator, threatening marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of people who depend on them, researchers…

Thousands of economists have spent years or decades studying the interaction between climate change and the economic systems that underlie modern life. The views of…

As the signs of today’s human-caused climate change become ever more alarming, research into the ways past societies responded to natural climate changes is growing…

More than 930 million tonnes of food sold in 2019 landed in waste bins, according to new UN research, released on Thursday, in support of…

The European Commission adopted Wednesday a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, setting out a pathway to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of…

The world is far from achieving agreed goals to reduce global warming in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General warned…

Almost two-thirds of over 1.2 million people surveyed worldwide say that climate change is a global emergency, urging greater action to address the crisis, results…

The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research. And the findings also reveal that the Earth…

Many internationally-funded projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change can make things worse – by reinforcing, redistributing or creating new sources of vulnerability…

Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has…

A crack on the Antarctic ice shelf grew dramatically in late 2020 into 2021. Two years after the Brunt Ice Shelf seemed poised to produce…

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…

Climate changes prompt many important questions. Not least how it affects animals and plants: Do they adapts, gradually migrate to different areas or become extinct?…

Tomorrow’s metropolises will feel the heat: by the close of the century, assuming that nations act on vows to drastically reduce fossil fuel use, hotter…