Climate change will fuel acts of terrorism and strengthen recruiting efforts by terrorist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, a report commissioned by the German foreign office has found. Terrorist groups will exploit the natural disasters and water and food shortages expected to result from climate change and allow them to recruit more easily, […]
Apr 20 2017 | Posted in
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Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s new global environment editor, explains why he feels compelled to return to full-time, specialised environmental reportin. Last week the Guardian announced that it was expanding its environment desk, adding three heavyweight reporters to its continent-spanning, award-winning team. Here Jonathan Watts, who will take up the new role of global environment editor in a […]
Apr 19 2017 | Posted in
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Humans are changing Earth’s climate at an alarmingly fast rate. A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years. The authors found that on our current path, by mid-century humans will be causing the fastest climate change in approximately 50 million years, and […]
Apr 18 2017 | Posted in
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Greenland ice is melting fast, and could potentially cause many meters of sea level rise. As humans put more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, ice around the planet melts. This melting can be a problem, particularly if the melting ice starts its life on land. That’s because the melt water flows into […]
Apr 16 2017 | Posted in
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And so it begins: the end of days. The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching for the second year in a row and now, according to the results of helicopter surveys released on Monday, it is the middle part (all 300 miles-plus of it) that is suffering the awful reef stress that comes courtesy of a warming ocean. Coral […]
Apr 13 2017 | Posted in
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Up to 100 million trees died in one of driest periods in the state's history. One of the worst droughts in California history has officially ended, Governor Jerry Brown declared, but not before it strained the state's farm economy and threatened water supplies for millions of residents. Govenor Brown's announcement on Friday covered the bulk […]
Apr 11 2017 | Posted in
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‘Last year was bad enough, this is a disaster,’ says one expert as Australia Research Council finds fresh damage across 8,000km. Back-to-back severe bleaching events have affected two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, new aerial surveys have found. The findings have caused alarm among scientists, who say the proximity of the 2016 and 2017 bleaching events […]
Apr 10 2017 | Posted in
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Human activities are altering the jet stream, which leads to extreme weather patterns getting stuck in place. If you were to stand at the northern pole and travel southwards, you would experience a gradual increase in temperature. However, when you reached the first jet stream (the Polar Jet), temperatures would rapidly become warmer. That is, […]
Apr 8 2017 | Posted in
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Three recent studies point to just how broad, bizarre, and potentially devastating climate change is to life on Earth. And we’ve only seen one degree Celsius of warming so far. Climate change is rapidly becoming a crisis that defies hyperbole. For all the sound and fury of climate change denialists, self-deluding politicians and a very […]
Temperatures are currently running around five degrees above average across much of northern India. Heatwave conditions have developed across the northern half of India. Temperatures are already breaching 40 degrees Celsius, making life increasingly difficult. Residents in the holy city of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh struggled to carry on with their daily […]
Apr 5 2017 | Posted in
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