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The Yupik Eskimo village of Kotlik on Alaska's northwest coast relies on a cold, hard blanket of sea ice to protect homes from vicious winter Bering Sea storms. Frigid north winds blow down from the Arctic Ocean, freeze saltwater and push sea ice south. The ...
Lights go out at Sydney landmarks as Australia takes part in Earth Hour conservation campaign
The Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge were plunged into darkness for an hour Saturday to raise awareness about climate change and its impact on the planet's vanishing biodiversity. The 13th edition of Earth Hour, organized by the green group WWF, will see millions ...
Climate change forcing Arctic seals and whales to shift feeding habits
Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found. Researchers harnessed data sets spanning two decades to examine how two species ...
Climate change an 'imminent' security threat fueling violence and terrorism, risk experts say
Climate change threats — from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean — are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure they don't spark new violence, security experts warned Tuesday. "Climate change is not about something ...
Latest Trump line about global warming makes a chilling mistake
With an Arctic blast chilling the northern states, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted over the weekend that it "Wouldn't be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!" The apparent irony that cold weather can strike a warming world ...
In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, the southernmost part of Chile's Patagonia region, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans. For the study, four researchers from the Austral University ...
U.S. fossil fuel export boom spurs growth and raises climate worries
In South Korea's largest shipyard, thousands of workers in yellow hard hats move ceaselessly between towering cranes lifting hulks of steel. They weld together the latest additions to the rapidly growing fleet of tankers carrying superchilled liquefied natural gas across the world's oceans. The boom ...
Protesters at U.N. climate talks disrupt U.S. event pitching fossil fuel and clean coal tech
Groups representing indigenous peoples and youth disrupted a U.S. government event at United Nations climate talks Monday, criticizing the Trump administration's policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. About 100 protesters stood up and chanted "Keep it in the ...
Climate talks hit standoff as battle over bid to block key science report looms
A diplomatic standoff over a single word could set the stage for a bigger showdown during the second half of this year's U.N. climate summit. Negotiators took time out Sunday to rest after the first week of talks ended on a sour note the previous ...
The world needs a "reality check" on the threat posed by climate change, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison said Tuesday at a U.N. summit to chart mankind's path away from runaway global warming. Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, brought a little galactic perspective to ...
Pressure mounts to bury carbon emissions, but who is going to pay the costs?
When countries gather Sunday to hammer out how they will enact pledges to cut carbon emissions, a Norwegian-led oil consortium will offer a solution: pump some of your excess carbon dioxide to us and we could store it for you. Environmentalists worry the costly technology, ...
Humanity faces simultaneous climate catastrophes by century's end, study warns
By century's end, many parts of the world may have to cope with up to six climate catastrophes at once, ranging from heat waves and wildfires to diluvian rains and deadly storm surges, researchers warned Monday. "Human society will be faced with the devastating combined ...
