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Scientists track ‘alarming’ melt in Antarctic ice shelves
Around 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves have significantly shrunk over the last 25 years, scientists said on Thursday, in findings the European Space Agency said were “alarming.”
The melting saw 71 of Antarctica’s 162 ice shelves…
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Climate change may make India and the Indus Valley too hot for up to 2.2 billion: Study
Climate change could expose up to 2.2 billion people in India’s Indus Valley and Pakistan to many hours of heat that surpass human tolerance by the end of the century, according to new study.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings…
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Climate change is costing us USD 16 million per hour: Study
Climate change and global warming are words that are tossed, often carelessly, in our everyday conversations. So much so that the real danger for humankind they encapsulate is often overlooked and forgotten.
Findings of a new study may be…
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Developed nations may face scrutiny at COP 28: UN
Acknowledgement that historical emissions of developed countries have depleted the carbon budget and that they failed to fulfil their pre-2020 commitments could be included in the outcome of the first-ever global stocktake.
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World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found.
On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels.…
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Japan pledges $1 billion for UN climate change fund
Japan will put up to 165 billion yen ($1.11 billion) into the United Nation's main fund for helping vulnerable countries cope with climate change, the country said on Thursday.
The UN's Green Climate Fund is seeking contributions to fund…
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2023 on track to be hottest year on record, EU Climate Change Service warns
This year is on track to become the hottest on record, with the global mean temperature to date this year 0.52° Celsius higher than average, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.
Scientists have said climate change…
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Climate change is causing more frequent, intense cyclones on India’s western coast
Changes in the patterns of ocean and atmosphere warming are causing more frequent and severe tropical cyclones in the Eastern Arabian Sea, next to India’s west coast, according to a new study.
Typically, tropical cyclones usually happen in…
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“World Is Collapsing”: Pope Francis Warns Of ‘Irreversible’ Climate Change
Pope Francis warned Wednesday the world "is collapsing" due to global warming, urging participants of the upcoming COP28 climate talks to agree to binding policies on phasing out fossil fuels.
Eight years after his landmark thesis…
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Climate change challenges marine conservation efforts in Atlantic Canada
Extreme ocean changes due to climate change are not an abstract or future scenario. This summer alone, 23 per cent of the world’s oceans experienced a heat wave, corresponding to an area roughly equivalent to the entire Atlantic Ocean.…
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