Guest post: 13 ‘ocean-based solutions’ for tackling climate change
Dr Phillip Williamson is an honorary reader at the University of East Anglia and science coordinator of the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal from the...
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En signant l’accord de Paris sur le changement climatique en 2015, presque tous les pays du monde se sont engagés à maintenir l’élévation de...
Q&A: How ‘integrated assessment models’ are used to study climate change
Working out the best ways to tackle climate change is one of the key challenges facing policymakers both today and in the decades ahead.
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World must act quickly to govern solar geoengineering, report says
Actions to manage solar geoengineering must “begin now”, says a report by an international group of governance experts.
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Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2018 is sixth lowest on record
Arctic sea ice has reached its summer minimum extent for the year, clocking in at 4.59m square kilometres (sq km), which puts it joint...
Record 2017 hurricane season driven by warm Atlantic Ocean, study says
Last year’s record hurricane season – which saw Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria cause devastation across North and Central America – was primarily driven by “pronounced...
Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to...
Climate change is often communicated by looking at the global average temperature. But a global average might not mean much to the average person....
Guest post: Credible tracking of land-use emissions under the Paris Agreement
Dr Giacomo Grassi is a scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; Dr Jo House is a reader in environmental...
Guest post: How Arctic warming could have steered Hurricane Florence towards the US
Prof Jennifer Francis is a research professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US.
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Limiting warming to 2C would prevent ‘worldwide increases’ in heat-related deaths
Restricting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels would prevent large increases in temperature-related deaths across much of the globe, a new study finds.
And...
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