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'Catastrophic' floods rising on Amazon River as climate changes
Severe flooding on the Amazon has increased amid changing weather patterns, and is harming the health and incomes of people living along the world's biggest river, scientists said. Analyzing more than 100 years of records measuring Amazon River levels in the port of Manaus in ...
Mayors, governors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and celebrities delivered a double-edged message Friday at the close of a climate summit in San Francisco: Global warming is making the planet unlivable — but we know how to fix it. "We are using the sky as an open ...
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday that the state plans to launch its "own damn satellite" into orbit to battle climate change. The man whom the late Chicago columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed "Gov. Moonbeam" made the announcement at the conclusion of a two-day climate ...
NASA launches satellite to measure changes in Earth's ice and vegetation
A NASA satellite designed to precisely measure changes in Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and vegetation was launched into polar orbit from California early Saturday. A Delta 2 rocket carrying ICESat-2 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 6:02 a.m. and headed over ...
Elbe 'hunger stones' tell tale of Czechs' centuries-long struggle with drought
Once an ominous harbinger of hard times and even famine due to critically low water levels, a massive "hunger stone" embedded deep in the Elbe River has reappeared in the Czech Republic after Europe's long, dry summer. The boulder in the town of Decin, north ...
U.N.'s December climate talks in Poland adds an extra day to get more work done
An annual global climate change meeting due to be held in Poland in December will start a day earlier than planned to allow more work to be done, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said. Government ministers will try to agree on ...
Governments are unprepared for a crucial climate change meeting in Poland later this year aimed at ensuring the full implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, Fiji Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama said this week at climate talks in Bangkok. The talks in the Thai capital ...
Climate action could add $26 trillion to world economy: study
Ambitious action on climate change could contribute an extra $26 trillion to the world economy by 2030, international experts said Wednesday, urging nations and businesses to step up their engagement. The economic benefits offered by a shift to a low-carbon economy have been "grossly" underestimated, ...
Melting ice in Arctic Ocean opening up new faster, cheaper energy trade route
A new trade route for energy supplies is opening up north of the Arctic Circle as some of the warmest temperatures on record shrink ice caps that used to lock ships out of the area. This year is likely to rank among the top 10 ...
Climate change threatens 'major transformation' to Earth's ecosystems: study
The Earth's forests, deserts, landscapes and vital ecosystems risk a "major transformation" in the next century due to climate change, international scientists warned on Thursday. Some of these changes are already under way in the southwestern United States, where massive wildfires are destroying pine forests ...
'Once-a-century' rains that have killed more than 1,200 people across South Asia and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with predictions say climate scientists, who warn that worse is to come if global warming continues unabated. The monsoon rains upon which farmers in the ...
Trump's power-plant proposal may increase U.S. carbon pollution
U.S. leader Donald Trump is poised to replace former President Barack Obama's plan to slash power plant greenhouse gas emissions with a substitute that could actually increase them. The move, combined with a rollback of automobile efficiency mandates proposed earlier this month, represents a significant ...
