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The truth about the switch from nuclear to renewables in Germany
Germany has started phasing out nuclear sources of energy in a search for renewable alternatives.
New report shows Americans linking extreme weather, climate change
A new release from the Yale University Project on Climate Change Communication shows widespread belief among Americans that extreme weather is linked with climate change.
200 years of global warming in 2 minutes
This disturbing video documents global warming from 1800 up through the present time
The three main types of ‘climate targets’
Climate change targets can be highly confusing. There are various types of targets, and lots of uncertainty about how each target could be met and what would happen if it was. Let’s look at the three main types of target in turn.
Ensuring future food production under climate change in Southern Africa: Report
Farmers are already actively experimenting with changing agricultural practices, and looking for ways to diversify their livelihoods in response climate and other stresses, within their resource constraints.
World headed for irreversible climate change in 5 years: IEA Report
The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be “lost for ever”, according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
Infographic: Watch the rise of CO2 levels in time-lapse
CarbonTracker, a project of the U.S. government’s National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory, has produced a telling time-lapse video chart of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) concentrations starting in January of 1979 and ending in January of 2011. Measurements were taken in dozens of locations around the world (the red ball measures CO2 in Hawaii [...]
Report: Australian Alps could be bare of winter snow by 2050
A new government-commissioned report has a bleak outlook on the effects of climate change on alpine areas in Australia.
Invasive species thriving thanks to climate change
Facilitated by the movement of people and goods over large distances, various organisms are being transported to foreign destinations and are now able to thrive there because of changing climates.
In the Philippines, feeding future generations is a present concern
Today is World Food Day. The Food and Agriculture Organization could not have chosen a more apt theme: “Food prices – from crisis to stability.” It is a rallying call for nations to ensure that food is available now and in the future in a world marked by vagaries of the market, political instability and climate change.
