UN outlines gap between global emissions and Paris Agreement pledges
November 2nd, 2017
Governments across the world need to urgently revise their 2020 emissions targets pledges to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, a...
Analysis: WRI data suggests emissions have already ‘peaked’ in 49 countries
To avoid dangerous levels of global warming, the international community has pledged to limit global temperature rise to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Sharks, vultures, and lions now protected globally under Convention on Migratory Species
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Sharks, vultures, and lions are just some of the migratory species that are now protected globally following the signing of new international...
Looking for a happy ending to the 2017 climate disaster movie
2017 has supplied enough material for a dozen Hollywood disaster movies: islands flattened by cyclones in the Caribbean and the Pacific, thousands killed in...
EPA named European leader in providing online access to pollution permit information
November 2nd, 2017
Ireland’s environmental watchdog is a European leader is making information about highly-polluting activities easily accessible on its website, a new NGO report...
Poor countries spending climate cash on rich world consultants
Even as they plan to demand more cash at UN talks in Bonn this week, poor countries lack the ability to initiate and implement...
Is the Paris climate deal legally binding or not?
When Donald Trump announced he intended to leave the Paris climate deal, he blamed the “draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on...
Why people around the world fear climate change more than Americans do
Posted on 2 November 2017 by Guest Author
Gregory J. Carbone, Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina
This article was originally published on The Conversation....
Got Toys? Meet the Ingenious App that is every parents dream
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With a three-year-old daughter at home, it is fair to say that toys have gradually taken over my life during the past...
New Greenland maps show more glaciers at risk
By Carol Rasmussen,NASA's Earth Science News Team
New maps of Greenland's coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four...
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