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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Changes in the world’s vegetation over the last 30 years—including the destruction of rain forests—have been caused more by climate change than direct human activity, researchers say.
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Australia’s recent bought of fierce and frequent floods, fires and droughts is likely only to intensify, a report says, unless the world moves fast to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in the long-running United Nations climate talks, is willing to agree to the industrialized world’s core demand on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted on Mar 30, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Researchers say they have found a clear link between climate change and the spread of diarrhea and similar diseases in one African country. But the nature of the link may be unexpected.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Supporters of geo-engineering are disappointed to learn that an Icelandic volcano that threw iron into the nearby ocean did little to reduce long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
With temperatures predicted to rise by at least 2°C this century, storms like the one that drowned New Orleans in 2005 could occur in the Atlantic once every two years.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The world’s rainforests may be able to weather the assaults of climate change more robustly than scientists had earlier thought, says a new study.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Many of the Canadian far north’s glaciers are likely to melt by the end of the century, making significant and irreversible sea-level rise inevitable.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Scientists say increased coal-burning, especially in developing countries, is largely responsible for a sharp increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
There may be limits to how far society can rely on wind power to replace fossil fuels, scientists say—limits imposed by the effect of numbers of turbines sited close together.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Scientists say they have discovered the particular mechanism by which extreme weather has occurred in the northern hemisphere in recent years.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
A U.N. scheme to guarantee everyone access to clean energy could help keep global temperature rise below 2°C, but only with sharp cuts in emissions of all the main greenhouse gases.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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Jesse Gardner (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Research shows some parts of the world are likely to get higher sea levels than others this century, particularly along the Pacific Ocean.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Researchers say the Arctic sheet is not only shrinking in area, but also losing much of its volume by thinning.
Posted on Feb 16, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
American farmers could lose millions of dollars to rising temperatures, faster-growing weeds, smaller yields and new pests, says a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Global temperatures may not warm as much over the next few years as scientists had expected. But what happens to the atmosphere this decade is a poor guide to the Earth’s longer-term future.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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