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Stopping soil erosion is a matter of urgency, otherwise starvation will follow, scientists warn
The world's food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is being eroded by human activities, scientists said Wednesday. Climate change is likely to make it worse even as demand from a growing population is ...
Increasingly complex, growing and related risks, from global warming to pollution and epidemics, threaten human survival if left to escalate, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. A biennial assessment report on how the world is dealing with disasters said the past could no longer be ...
Outback farmers lead the charge as climate heats up Australia election
As Australians head to the polls this week after the country's hottest-ever summer, Outback farmers — walloped by epic fires, floods and heat waves — are leading the fight against climate change and making it one of the election's key issues. With one of the ...
415.26 parts per million: CO2 levels in atmosphere hit historic high
Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began, sounding new alarm over the relentless rise of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which has tracked atmospheric CO2 levels since ...
U.N. panel in Kyoto agrees new guidelines to more accurately measure greenhouse gas emissions
A U.N. panel on climate change announced Monday in Kyoto that it has agreed on updated guidelines to more accurately measure countries' greenhouse gas emissions, including ways to calculate emissions resulting from hydrogen production. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted a new methodology report ...
Indigenous Australians to challenge government at U.N. over climate change as human rights violation
Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of violating their human rights by failing to tackle climate change. The Torres Strait Islanders will tell the U.N. Human Rights Committee in ...
Most European Union countries reduced carbon dioxide emissions last year, estimates showed Wednesday, marking a turnaround in the battle against greenhouse gases as campaigners urged faster action to avoid the most damaging effects of climate change. Overall EU emissions from burning oil, coal and gas ...
Solutions to the biggest threats facing our planet lie underground, according to experts who insist climate change, overpopulation and food shortages can all be tackled by going subterranean. "We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for ...
Answer to climate change will be found in labs, Exxon Mobil CEO says
For Darren Woods, Exxon Mobil Corp.'s chief executive officer, the answer to climate change won't be found in solar panels or high-profile global accords, but rather in a U.S. government laboratory. At a time when environmentalists want Exxon to leave more oil and gas in ...
U.N. chief warns of 'total disaster' if global warming is not stopped via nearly impossible curbs
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world must dramatically change the way it fuels factories, vehicles and homes to limit future warming to a level scientists call nearly impossible. That's because the alternative "would mean a catastrophic situation for the whole world," Guterres told ...
A U.N. climate panel kicked off a general meeting in Kyoto on Wednesday to discuss methods to more accurately calculate countries' greenhouse gas emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), comprising experts on the topic, will release a report documenting such methods Monday. Tokyo aims ...
Japan kicks off Reiwa Era's first energy-saving Cool Biz casual wear campaign
The government began the annual Cool Biz campaign on Tuesday to promote workplace energy conservation by dressing more casually. After the 10-day holiday period through Monday to celebrate Emperor Naruhito's ascension to the throne and commemorate the era change from Heisei to Reiwa, many employees ...
