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Mission to Space to Reveal the 'Truth' Behind Climate Change

Led by the UK, future space missions, known as Truths, will help reveal the true effects of climate change.

22 Jan 2020

Social Tipping Interventions can Help Meet Climate Agreement Targets

Reducing global warming to much less than 2 °C will, at the least, need a decarbonized world by 2050 and an equivalent universal transformation of the land use and energy systems of different communities in the world.

21 Jan 2020

Platypus on Brink of Extinction

Australia’s devastating drought is having a critical impact on the iconic platypus, a globally unique mammal, with increasing reports of rivers drying up and platypuses becoming stranded.

21 Jan 2020

Accelerating the Development of More Efficient Carbon Capture Technologies

A research team at the University of Alberta has come up with several methods that can save a great deal of time when producing highly efficient carbon capture technologies.

20 Jan 2020

Focusing on Decarbonization to Avoid Consequences of Climate Change

To avoid the most destructive consequences of climate change, the world's electric energy systems must stop producing carbon by 2050. It seems like an overwhelming technological, political, and economic challenge — but not to Nestor Sepulveda.

20 Jan 2020

Exodus Travels Commits to Fight Climate Change

Global adventure travel company, Exodus Travels has today announced they are one of the founding signatories of the ‘Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency’ pledge, in an effort to fight climate change and significantly reduce the growing environmental footprint of the tourism industry.

17 Jan 2020

Study Suggests Marine Heatwave Killed One Million Seabirds During 2015 and 2016

A record-breaking area of unusually warm water known as ‘the blob’ is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of around one million seabirds. Between the years 2013 and 2016, this patch of water lurke...

16 Jan 2020

New Research Confirms Role of Climate Change in Forest Wildfires

According to a research review on wildfire and global climate change risk published recently, climate change caused by humans supports conditions that lead to wildfires, thereby increasing their chances of occurrence.

14 Jan 2020

Climate Change Does Not Contribute to the Migration of Sugar Maples

Climate is said to be a significant factor when it comes to establishing the growing zone of plant species. Toward the end of the next century, climate change is estimated to cause certain species to spread several dozens of kilometers north of their existing distribution regions, suggest several studies.

13 Jan 2020

New Study Helps Understand How Earth Works When it is in a Warm Mode

During the middle Miocene Climate Optimum period, global temperatures were warmer by 3 to 4 degrees, compared to present average temperatures, analogous to the estimates for the year 2100. The seas were thriving with life and the continents’ positions were just like today.

10 Jan 2020