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April 17, 2024
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Apr. 17, 2024 Pioneering study reveals that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce the global economic costs of climate change by two thirds. If warming continues to 3 degrees Celsius, global GDP will decrease by up to 10 percent -- with the ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests -- including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries increasingly prone to climate ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Connecting the study of infectious disease spread, biodiversity loss and climate change could offer win-win-win solutions for planetary health, but a new analysis has uncovered almost no research ...
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Apr. 11, 2024 A study has found that market forces have provided good food price stability over the past half century, despite extreme weather ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Carbon monoxide emissions from industrial production have serious consequences for human health and are a strong indicator of overall air pollution levels. Many countries aim to reduce their ...
Apr. 2, 2024 An international team of scientists published a study emphasizing the urgent need to align political will, economic resources, and societal values to ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Models suggest summer rainfall in southern Europe could decline by up to 48% by the year 2100 if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Around 32 per cent of the world's population live in countries that do not adhere to the World Health Organization's recommendations on safe limits of arsenic in drinking ...
Mar. 21, 2024 'Outdoor days,' a new measure, describes climate change impacts by noting the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are comfortable enough for normal outdoor ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Claims that climate change is natural are inconsistent with new oceanic temperature ...
Mar. 15, 2024 In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Global GDP loss from climate change will increase exponentially the warmer the planet gets when its cascading impact on global supply chains is ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...
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Apr. 4, 2024 Changing weather patterns induced by climate change are contributing to shifts in the location of terrorist activity, according to new ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Energy systems essential to supporting our everyday activities face increasing threats from wars, pandemics, climate change, and other unexpected events. An international team of researchers found ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases. A collection of eight studies -- all focusing ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Forests have a critical role to play in capturing and storing carbon from the Earth's atmosphere -- but some models exaggerate their carbon removal potential by almost three-fold, according to a ...
Feb. 26, 2024 World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Remember the 2022 baby formula crisis? The historic shortage of infant formula that year highlighted the precarious balance between regulation, competition and safety, according to a new study. The ...
Feb. 21, 2024 There exists a narrative about climate change that says there are winners and losers -- with Russia being one of the countries that stand to benefit from its effects. In a new study, researchers ...
Feb. 20, 2024 Common pool resources comprise around 65 percent of Earth's surface and vast tracts of the ocean. While examples of successful governance of these resources exist, the circumstances and ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Throughout human history, technologies have been used to make peoples' lives richer and more comfortable, but they have also contributed to a global crisis threatening Earth's climate, ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Researchers report that replacing 50% of animal products with alternative proteins by 2050 could free up enough agricultural land to generate renewable energy equivalent in volume to today's ...
Jan. 30, 2024 First input-output economic analysis of the 2019-20 Australian fires also found 7300 jobs were lost. The study highlights economic vulnerabilities to extremes of climate ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate ...
Jan. 25, 2024 A new commentary highlights that switching the focus from how energy is supplied to how energy is consumed can be a more effective approach to reducing carbon emissions with the added benefit of ...
Jan. 24, 2024 Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Researchers now present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly 1,700 aquifers. ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Sustainable water management is an increasing concern in arid regions around the world, and scientists and regulators are turning to remote sensing tools like OpenET to help track and manage water ...
Jan. 15, 2024 Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...
Jan. 10, 2024 An international group of researchers finds that conserving about half of global land area could maintain nearly all of nature's contributions to people and still meet biodiversity targets for ...
Jan. 9, 2024 An international team of scientists has used a novel 500-year dataset to frame a 'restorative' pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst ecological and social outcomes of climate ...
Jan. 8, 2024 To address natural resource scarcity, pollution, and other harmful effects of climate change, some scientists and policymakers emphasize the adoption of input-efficient technologies like water-saving ...
Jan. 5, 2024 In a recent tragic incident, approximately 100 elephants in Africa perished due to inadequate access to water. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issues a warning that around 2.5 billion ...
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- Improving Energy Security With Policies Focused on Demand-Side Solutions
- How Climate Change Risks Increase at a National Scale as the Level of Global Warming Increases
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Reforestation Schemes Are Not Enough to Recover the Carbon Created by Harvesting Wood
- Can Hunger Be Eradicated by 2030?
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- Black Summer Bushfires in Australia Wiped $2.8 Billion from Tourism Supply Chain
- Geoengineering May Slow Greenland Ice Sheet Loss
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- National Policy Aimed at Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gases Also Would Improve Water Quality
- How a Drought Led to the Rise of Skateboarding in 1970s California
Thursday, December 7, 2023
- North Korea and Beyond: AI-Powered Satellite Analysis Reveals the Unseen Economic Landscape of Underdeveloped Nations?
- Sister Climate Cities, Utility Data Predict Future Water, Electricity Demands
Monday, December 4, 2023
- Fossil CO2 Emissions at Record High in 2023
- 1.5°C Pathways Can Still Be Achieved, Combining Fairness and Global Climate Protection
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- Wildfire, Drought Cause $11.2 Billion in Damage to Private Timberland in Three Pacific States, Study Finds
- New Research Maps 14 Potential Evolutionary Dead Ends for Humanity and Ways to Avoid Them
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- We Can Save Lives and Millions With Less Nitrate in Drinking Water
- Food Waste Prevention in Europe Can Generate Major Footprint Savings
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- Report Warns About Risk Tipping Points With Irreversible Impacts on People and Planet
- A Sustainable Future Is Based on a Learning Society
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- Researchers Urge: It's High Time for Alliances to Ensure Supply Chain Security
- Urgent Action Needed to Address Climate Change Threats to Coastal Areas
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- Emphasizing the Need for Energy Independence Could Change the Views of Climate Deniers, Study Says
- Climate Extremes Hit Stressed Economies Even Harder
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- Indirect Effects of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Revealed: Global Food Supply at Risk
- Climate Change Likely Led to Violence in Early Andean Populations
- 10-Year Countdown to Sea-Ice-Free Arctic
Thursday, June 8, 2023
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- Montreal Protocol Is Delaying First Ice-Free Arctic Summer
- Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C Would Save Billions from Dangerously Hot Climate
- New Supply Chain Model to Empower Seabound Hydrogen Economy
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- Global Natural History Initiative Builds Groundbreaking Database to Address 21st Century Challenges
- The Global Economics of Climate Action
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