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EU offers to raise rich countries’ climate pledge to $300 bn: COP29 negotiators
EU offers to raise rich countries’ climate pledge to $300 bn: COP29 negotiatorsNews

EU offers to raise rich countries’ climate pledge to $300 bn: COP29 negotiators

Baku, Azerbaijan | AFP - The European Union is ready to raise to $300 billion an offer by wealthy nations for annual climate funding to…
SourceSourceNovember 23, 2024 Full article
Image of the day: Bomb cyclone hits the west coasts of the US and Canada
Image of the day: Bomb cyclone hits the west coasts of the US and CanadaNews

Image of the day: Bomb cyclone hits the west coasts of the US and Canada

A powerful storm struck the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and British Columbia, Canada, on 19 November 2024, leaving 290,000 buildings without power…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
Tufts University joins pioneering collaboration to advance campus decarbonization
Tufts University joins pioneering collaboration to advance campus decarbonizationNews

Tufts University joins pioneering collaboration to advance campus decarbonization

Tufts University - Consortium for Climate Solutions expands renewable energy generation and reduces Tufts’ carbon emissions. Tufts University marked a milestone on its path to…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
Building climate resilient cocoa farming in West Africa
Building climate resilient cocoa farming in West AfricaScience

Building climate resilient cocoa farming in West Africa

Agroforestry systems, which integrate trees and shrubs into farming, are vital to achieving sustainable cocoa production in West Africa where 70 percent of the world…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis
Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisisScience

Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis

In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling
2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate ModellingNews

2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

Association for Computing Machinery - ACM, today, presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
COP29 in extra time as poor nations reject $250 bn offer
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COP29 in extra time as poor nations reject $250 bn offerNews

COP29 in extra time as poor nations reject $250 bn offer

By Nick Perry, Laurent Thomet and Shaun Tandon | AFP Baku, Azerbaijan - Heated negotiations on a global climate deal were set to spill into…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
Climate Science Digest: November 21, 2024
Climate Science Digest: November 21, 2024Science

Climate Science Digest: November 21, 2024

Environmental impacts of plastics: Moving beyond the perspective on waste A UFZ team analyses the impacts of plastics on climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental…
SourceSourceNovember 22, 2024 Full article
Image of the day: Tropical Storm Sara causes severe flooding in Honduras
Image of the day: Tropical Storm Sara causes severe flooding in HondurasNews

Image of the day: Tropical Storm Sara causes severe flooding in Honduras

On 15 November 2024, Tropical Storm Sara made landfall in Honduras, causing extensive damage and bringing over 50 centimetres of rain to the northern region…
SourceSourceNovember 21, 2024 Full article
Rising climate-driven hazards put millions of coastal residents at greater risk
Rising climate-driven hazards put millions of coastal residents at greater riskClimate

Rising climate-driven hazards put millions of coastal residents at greater risk

A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100 would affect over 14 million people and $1…
SourceSourceNovember 21, 2024 Full article
World still split over money as clock ticks on COP29
World still split over money as clock ticks on COP29News

World still split over money as clock ticks on COP29

Baku, Azerbaijan | AFP - A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as…
SourceSourceNovember 21, 2024 Full article
What are the belowground responses to long-term soil warming among different types of trees?
What are the belowground responses to long-term soil warming among different types of trees?Science

What are the belowground responses to long-term soil warming among different types of trees?

Through a 20-year experiment, investigators have shown how different trees adjust their strategies for acquiring nutrients through their roots as soil warms with climate change.…
SourceSourceNovember 20, 2024 Full article
Image of the day: The EU Space Days live in Budapest
Image of the day: The EU Space Days live in BudapestNews

Image of the day: The EU Space Days live in Budapest

Budapest, Hungary’s capital and largest city, is situated along the banks of the Danube River, dividing the city into Buda and Pest. The western side,…
SourceSourceNovember 20, 2024 Full article
New supercomputer advances sustainable research
New supercomputer advances sustainable researchNews

New supercomputer advances sustainable research

EPFL’s new Kuma supercomputer, which ranks 23rd in the Green500 ranking, illustrates EPFL’s efforts to support cutting-edge research with a low environmental impact. With Kuma,…
SourceSourceNovember 20, 2024 Full article
Net zero needs women
Net zero needs womenNews

Net zero needs women

By Gabriela Fernando, Jessica Walters, Susie Ho, Sarah Gosper | Monash University, Indonesia and Monash University, Australia Recognising the leadership role of women is essential…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
Image of the day: Wildfires on the East Coast, USA
Image of the day: Wildfires on the East Coast, USANews

Image of the day: Wildfires on the East Coast, USA

In November 2024, the northeastern US was hit by numerous wildfires, intensified by drought conditions and high winds. The Jennings Creek Fire on the New…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
COP29 negotiators strive for deal after G20 ‘marching orders’
COP29 negotiators strive for deal after G20 ‘marching orders’News

COP29 negotiators strive for deal after G20 ‘marching orders’

By Nick Perry, Benjamin Legendre and Laurent Thomet | AFP Baku, Azerbaijan - Negotiators toiled Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
Climate change exposure associated with increased emergency imaging
Climate change exposure associated with increased emergency imagingScience

Climate change exposure associated with increased emergency imaging

Using data collected over a 10-year period from four emergency departments, researchers at the University of Toronto found that short-term exposure to ambient heat and…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
World faces growing ‘risks and challenges’, Xi tells Macron: state media
World faces growing ‘risks and challenges’, Xi tells Macron: state mediaNews

World faces growing ‘risks and challenges’, Xi tells Macron: state media

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP - Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday told French President Emmanuel Macron that the world was facing growing "risks…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital’s smog misery
Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital’s smog miseryNews

Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital’s smog misery

New Delhi, India | AFP - The illegal burning of farm fields in northern India reached a record high this season, fuelling a toxic smog…
SourceSourceNovember 19, 2024 Full article
Image of the day: Eruption of the Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, Indonesia
Image of the day: Eruption of the Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, IndonesiaNews

Image of the day: Eruption of the Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, Indonesia

n 4 November 2024, the Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted, impacting seven villages and killing at least ten people. Officials declared a…
SourceSourceNovember 18, 2024 Full article
Natural carbon sinks alone cannot halt global warming
Natural carbon sinks alone cannot halt global warmingClimate

Natural carbon sinks alone cannot halt global warming

In a new study1, led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and published in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the…
SourceSourceNovember 18, 2024 Full article
UN climate chief at deadlocked COP29: ‘Cut the theatrics’
UN climate chief at deadlocked COP29: ‘Cut the theatrics’News

UN climate chief at deadlocked COP29: ‘Cut the theatrics’

By Nick Perry, Benjamin Legendre and Julien Mivielle | AFP Baku, Azerbaijan (Updated) - The UN's climate chief told countries at the deadlocked COP29 summit…
SourceSourceNovember 18, 2024 Full article
Denmark’s major parties agree on carbon tax on livestock: government
Denmark’s major parties agree on carbon tax on livestock: governmentNews

Denmark’s major parties agree on carbon tax on livestock: government

Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP - Denmark's government said Monday that the country's major parties had agreed on the details of the world's first carbon tax…
SourceSourceNovember 18, 2024 Full article

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