Climate Change

Climate change is revealing secrets trapped within our planet’s permafrost. As the icy layers melt at an alarming rate, they are uncovering organisms thought to be extinct – ancient “zombie viruses” that have been perfectly preserved for…
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Scientists have uncovered a potentially lethal paradox at the heart of efforts to slow human-caused climate change. A series of new studies suggest a stark truth. One the one hand, cutting fossil fuel pollution is necessary for avoiding…
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Carbon markets will be a key discussion topic at the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany, scheduled from June 5-15, 2023. The Bonn Conference will deal with technical details to feed discussions at the 28th Conference of Parties…
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Ahead of the UN Climate talks in Bonn (June 5-15) which will set the agenda for UN Climate meeting (COP28) in Dubai in November, COP28 director-general Ambassador Majid Al Suwaidi told HT in an interview that mitigation of emissions, an…
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Seven of eight earth system boundaries (ESBs) that are critical for stability of the planet’s health and survival of species have already been crossed, a new research paper by the Earth Commission published in Nature journal flagged on…
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A new study by 40 scientists and researchers from across the globe has quantified that humanity has transgressed several safety boundaries of the five components of earth system and called for urgent transformative action, noting that about…
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The World Meteorological Organization, which plays a critical global role in tracking climate change, chooses a new leader this week to turbocharge that work over the next four years. The Geneva-based WMO's role in climate change has…
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Climate change has the potential of triggering gigantic deadly tsunamis in Antarctica that could have a global effect. A new study hints that this has happened in the past when the temperatures in Antarctica were up to 3 degrees Celsius…
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Amidst climate change threatening Mount Everest, the Earth's tallest mountain, leading mountain bodies and mountain partnerships have launched a campaign called "Save Our Snow" to preserve Earth's snow and ice before it is too late. With…
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Global warming may be the cause of an earlier-than-usual outbreak of mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus in Israel this year, according to Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba…
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