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The president-elect has said he would abolish Brazil's environment ministry, exposing the world's largest rainforest and its indigenous owners to criminal gangs of loggers and miners.
Climate Home News October 30, 2018
“There’s something great about…the power of zero in focusing minds,” said an executive of a London company providing carbon-consulting and carbon-offsetting services. “It’s a concept everybody gets.”
Thomson Reuters Foundation September 17, 2018
On an exclusive South Florida barrier island, home buyers are looking for elevation – and low-lying houses are going for less. "Rain is bad for us," one resident said. "Rain triggers thoughts of flooding."
Thomson Reuters Foundation July 30, 2018
"Poor people just get the short end of the stick continuously, and climate change is just another thing they are going to have to deal with," says the head of the Community Development Corporation of Brownsville.
Thomson Reuters Foundation July 1, 2018
Story and video: In storm-battered New Orleans, preparing for disasters "has become the norm, not the exception." Evacuation centers have been built, homes raised, rooftop solar panels installed and "rain gardens" created.
Thomson Reuters Foundation May 7, 2018
Can an influx of Democratic-learning climate migrants in Florida tip the state’s delicate political balance? As climate change and worsening disasters push more people from their homes, the human wave is creating unexpected ripples in many places.
Thomson Reuters Foundation April 8, 2018
Hurricanes, wildfires and other weather disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017. And extreme weather driven by climate change is expected to become more common in upcoming decades.
Thomson Reuters Foundation March 12, 2018
The recovery of the damaged ozone layer which protects life on Earth from harmful solar radiation is no longer happening worldwide, an international team of researchers has reported.
Climate News Network February 18, 2018
Planting more urban forests is a simple way not only to improve the health of a city’s people, but to make them wealthier too, scientists in New York state and Italy reported in a new study.
Climate News Network January 29, 2018
A buyout program is just one way Houston hopes to better protect itself against floods. But even as officials prepare to demolish thousands of homes in low-lying areas, developers are putting up hundreds more.
Thomson Reuters Foundation December 21, 2017
Summer chills and early fall warmth are being cited as factors that led to to monarch butterflies' latest mass migration southward since the early 1990s.
Yale Climate Connections November 22, 2017
In light of new scientific studies measuring how much of the intensity of catastrophic storms resulted from climate change, inquiries might examine questions such as whether public officials correctly managed land use and development.
Thomson Reuters Foundation September 13, 2017
Timber rots, cement crumbles, metal corrodes. Plastics don’t biodegrade in any meaningful sense. In 2010, researchers estimated, 8 million tons of plastic debris entered the world’s oceans. By 2050, there could be 12 billion tons of the stuff in landfills.
Climate News Network August 21, 2017
Earth is undergoing a “great extinction,” researchers say, with species’ disappearance and decline bearing negative cascading consequences for ecosystem functioning and services vital to sustaining civilization.
Climate News Network July 13, 2017
As seas rise, U.S. cities with little severe flooding in the past will have more of the worst floods, researchers said. Other cities, which have faced catastrophic hurricane risks historically, can expect moderate floods to be more numerous.
Climate News Network June 15, 2017
"We're looking at a small temperature increase and still seeing a big increase in heatwave deaths. It seems pretty shocking," says one study author. And a much bigger temperature rise is projected for Asia.
Thomson Reuters Foundation June 14, 2017
G7 leaders are meeting against a backdrop of strong climate-change concern: A poll in the U.S. and seven other countries found nearly 90 percent would alter their standard of living to prevent future climate catastrophe.
Thomson Reuters Foundation May 25, 2017
Wetlands – which protect people from drought and floods – are suffering in Kenya's drought. Severe water shortages have damaged crops and left 2.6 million people in need of aid.
Thomson Reuters Foundation April 20, 2017
New research indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on farmers in America as they struggle to adapt to the rapid increase in heat.
Climate News Network April 5, 2017
The Arctic and Antarctic have experienced record lows in sea-ice extent so far in 2017 – dubbed an “exceptional” year by scientists, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center
Carbon Brief March 27, 2017
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