Climate Change

Present-day climate change includes both global warming – the ongoing increase in global average temperature – and its wider effects on Earth’s climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth’s climate. The current rise in global temperatures is driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, deforestation, and some agricultural and industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases absorb some of the heat that the Earth radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary gas driving global warming, has increased in concentration by about 50% since the pre-industrial era to levels not seen for millions of years. (Source: Wikipedia | CC BY-SA)

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New Zealand accused of ‘climate denial’ over new methane targetsNews

New Zealand accused of ‘climate denial’ over new methane targets

Wellington, New Zealand | AFP Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand's government of "full-blown climate denial" after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a…
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Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistanceClimate

Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance

Tajikistan | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region,…
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Marine heatwaves disrupt ocean food webs and slow carbon transportClimate

Marine heatwaves disrupt ocean food webs and slow carbon transport

New study analyzing data from robotic floats and plankton records reveals how marine heatwaves reshape ocean food webs and slow transport of carbon to the…
SourceSourceOctober 7, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: October 6, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: October 6, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (October 6, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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Four key climate components are losing stabilityClimate

Four key climate components are losing stability

Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study based on…
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UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operationsNews

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

Paris, France | AFP The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: October 3, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: October 3, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (October 3, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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Climate Science Digest: October 1, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: October 1, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (October 1, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to ‘terminate’ climate changeNews

Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to ‘terminate’ climate change

Vatican City, Holy See | AFP Pope Leo XIV joins environmental experts and campaigners from around the world for a climate conference near Rome Wednesday featuring…
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Yellow warblers show how climate change is reshaping wildlifeClimate

Yellow warblers show how climate change is reshaping wildlife

Findings highlight the importance and difficulty of linking genes, traits and the environment together to better predict a species’ ability to keep pace with climate…
SourceSourceSeptember 30, 2025 Full article
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Image of the day: Rapid retreat of Gries Glacier in the Swiss AlpsNews

Image of the day: Rapid retreat of Gries Glacier in the Swiss Alps

Switzerland’s Gries Glacier, nestled in the canton of Valais, is melting at an alarming pace as climate change accelerates the loss of alpine ice. The…
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Cambridge scientist reveals strategy that could double consumer choice of meat-free foodsScience

Cambridge scientist reveals strategy that could double consumer choice of meat-free foods

Cambridge research finds unique nudge approach that significantly outperforms carbon labelling for increasing sustainable food consumption Summary: A study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food…
SourceSourceSeptember 29, 2025 Full article
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Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: reportNews

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report

Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Europe is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to improve its resilience…
SourceSourceSeptember 29, 2025 Full article
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Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warnScience

Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warn

Study: how Earth may overcorrect for warming Summary: A new study published in Science suggests that Earth’s natural carbon cycle, long thought to stabilize global…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to EuropeClimate

Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to Europe

Warming may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hailstorms, new research has shown Summary: Climate change could make Europe’s hailstorms less frequent…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: September 28, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: September 28, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (September 28, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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Climate Science Digest: September 24, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: September 24, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (September 24, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UNNews

‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UN

United Nations, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con…
SourceSourceSeptember 24, 2025 Full article
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Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling methodClimate

Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling method

New modeling method offers clearer flood risk predictions under climate change, helping policymakers plan for future warming scenarios Summary: Flooding caused by extreme rainfall is…
SourceSourceSeptember 23, 2025 Full article
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Banks put more money into fossil fuels than clean energy, reportNews

Banks put more money into fossil fuels than clean energy, report

Reclaim Finance | Muser NewsDesk Global banks are continuing to pour far more money into fossil fuels than into clean energy, despite their public commitments…
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Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: studyNews

Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday,…
SourceSourceSeptember 22, 2025 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: September 22, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: September 22, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (September 22, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
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Ocean carbon sink weakened as record heat drove CO₂ release in 2023Climate

Ocean carbon sink weakened as record heat drove CO₂ release in 2023

Measurements analysed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented…
SourceSourceSeptember 22, 2025 Full article
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Warmer climate boosts north German vineyards, for nowNews

Warmer climate boosts north German vineyards, for now

Werder, Germany | AFP The morning sun shines on lush vines as harvesters pick grapes. The hillside vineyard looks like it could be in Italy but…
SourceSourceSeptember 21, 2025 Full article