7 major impacts of rapid climate change on land, oceans and atmosphere
4 years, 9 months ago

7 major impacts of rapid climate change on land, oceans and atmosphere

India Today  

Climate change has become a major factor in the rapid warming of heat and land, and the immense loss of biodiversity on the planet. According to the reports, these are the 7 major impacts of climate change on the world- 1. Displacement Because of hydrometeorological events such as Cyclone Idai in Southeast Africa and Cyclone Fani in South Asia, as many as 6.7 million displacements were recorded in those areas in the past years. Drought Drought affected many parts of southeast Asia and Australia, which had its driest year on record, influenced by the strong positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Read: Arctic sea ice can't 'bounce back' even if climate change is reversed: Study Read: Experts confirm that nearly one billion animals have been killed or imperilled by the Australian fires

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Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024
1 week, 6 days ago

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024

Associated Press  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Call for nexus approach as climate change, biodiversity loss interlinked
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Call for nexus approach as climate change, biodiversity loss interlinked

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: 2024 has been a year of extremes. “Without integrated action, we risk making matters worse.” The report examines five key crises—climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, water scarcity, and health risks—and illustrates how these issues amplify one another. It is estimated that the unaccounted-for costs of current approaches to economic activity – reflecting impacts on biodiversity, water, health and …

Earth is heating up faster than expected and humans are not ready for it
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Earth is heating up faster than expected and humans are not ready for it

India Today  

The world is heating up at an alarming rate, with the last two years, 2023 and 2024, setting new temperature records. As negotiators reach finals rounds of negotiations in Azerbaijan for COP29, the latest round of UN climate change talks, the urgency of addressing global warming has never been more apparent. Land areas are typically warming faster than the global …

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Climate change is one of the most serious common challenges the world is facing today, and one of the worst impacts of climate change has been on the agriculture sector, affecting development patterns and threatening global food security. In terms of policy formulation, the government has used strategic planning, policies and regulations, such as the National Climate …

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Climate-smart agriculture to address climate change

China Daily  

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY Climate change is one of the most serious common challenges the world is facing today, and one of the worst impacts of climate change has been on the agriculture sector, affecting development patterns and threatening global food security. In terms of policy formulation, the government has used strategic planning, policies and regulations, such as the National Climate …

How is the world doing on climate change? Not great
2 months, 2 weeks ago

How is the world doing on climate change? Not great

NPR  

How is the world doing on climate change? Global greenhouse gas emissions rose to a new record in 2023, and if countries do not change course, the world will see warming of more than 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. That would blow past the targets set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement: Countries have agreed to …

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports
1 year, 1 month ago

Past decade was the hottest on record as climate change ‘surged alarmingly,’ WMO reports

CNN  

CNN — The decade between 2011 and 2020 was the hottest on record for the planet’s land and oceans as the rate of climate change “surged alarmingly,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. Climate pollution from all fossil fuel types — coal, oil, and natural gas — increased around the world, the Global Carbon Project found, …

How climate change affects farming and food security
1 year, 1 month ago

How climate change affects farming and food security

Live Mint  

As impacts from prolonged droughts to extreme heat worsen, climate change is threatening the world's ability to produce enough nutritious food and ensure everyone has access to it. At COP28 in Dubai, more than 130 country leaders on Friday called for global and national food systems to be rethought to address climate change - the first such official recognition at …

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report

LA Times  

The dire effects of human-caused climate change are worsening and they threaten to bring more extreme heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires unless urgent actions are taken, scientists warned in a major national report. Efforts to adapt to climate change and curb the burning of fossil fuels have expanded since the last assessment was issued in 2018, the report says, …

Climate change impacts health, gender equality, economic growth and food insecurity: Report
1 year, 5 months ago

Climate change impacts health, gender equality, economic growth and food insecurity: Report

The Hindu  

Climate change impacts various aspects of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals including health, education, poverty reduction, economic growth, gender equality, besides exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition, according to a report presented during the ongoing Think20 Summit in Mysuru. The report titled “Our Uncommon Future: Intersectionality of Climate Change and SDGs in the Global South” recognises the differentiated impact of climate …

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?
1 year, 7 months ago

World Environment Day: What is the human cost of inaction?

Live Mint  

When we talk about the cost of the climate crisis, the implications are almost always depicted in financial terms. “For every 0.1ºC of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat,” said Professor Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and one of the co-authors of the …

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate
1 year, 8 months ago

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate

Firstpost  

The UN agency’s 2022 report has some worrying findings about climate change that has fuelled extreme weather events. Published on Friday, the State of Global Climate 2022 report by the World Meteorological Organization makes some worrying revelations about record-high temperatures, melting glaciers and rising pollution. What have the findings of WMO’s report on the state of global climate revealed about …

Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity
1 year, 9 months ago

Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity

Hindustan Times  

The natural world is a source of beauty and wonder, but it also provides humans with essential services. One step towards avoiding yet more disappointment is to emphasise the close link between preserving biodiversity and the widely held goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions. For example, Joe Biden’s chief piece of climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, contains about $400bn …

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future
1 year, 9 months ago

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future

The Hindu  

Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health and there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report on March 20, 2023. “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, …

Six foods that climate change is going to ruin
1 year, 11 months ago

Six foods that climate change is going to ruin

Salon  

We don't live in an agrarian society anymore, at least not here in the United States. "The full impact of climate change on the global food system is complex," Marie Cosquer, Advocacy Analyst on Food Systems and Climate Crisis for Action Against Hunger, wrote to Salon. "Coffee arabica is known to be specifically vulnerable to climate change impacts," Dr. Roman …

Cost-of-living crisis overshadows ‘unavoidable’ climate action
1 year, 11 months ago

Cost-of-living crisis overshadows ‘unavoidable’ climate action

Al Jazeera  

Rising cost of living, energy and food supply crunches, and heavy national debt threaten to thwart the collective will needed to address the climate crisis, new report says. Climate change is the global economy’s biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems led by a cost-of-living crisis, the World Economic Forum said …

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report
1 year, 11 months ago

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report

Salon  

If you are reading this article, there is a 9 out of 10 chance that you live somewhere that will experience future extreme heat weather events due to climate change. In an analysis published for the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, Oxford's Professor Louise Slater and Wuhan University's Dr. Jiabo Yin explain that as the planet's temperature continues to rise, there …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 1 month ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?
2 years, 2 months ago

Climate Questions: What’s going on with climate change?

Associated Press  

Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon dioxide and methane from coal, oil and natural gas into the atmosphere — is becoming exponentially more pressing, with the language of scientists, officials and activists becoming more serious with every passing year. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of …

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change
2 years, 2 months ago

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change

Al Jazeera  

COP27 delegates will be relying on UN climate science agency studies to make decisions about future energy plans. At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the UN climate science agency to sway decisions about future energy plans and global warming trajectories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produces reports roughly …

Weather this summer ‘threatens global food supplies’, scientists warn
2 years, 4 months ago

Weather this summer ‘threatens global food supplies’, scientists warn

The Independent  

Extreme weather this summer has slashed harvest forecasts, with experts warning that it could exacerbate the global food crisis. In a written briefing, an international group of experts warned that climate-driven extremes, such as heatwaves, flooding and drought, further threaten global food supplies already impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The situation also offers an insight into what the future …

World may soon pass the crucial climate threshold of 1.5°C
2 years, 7 months ago

World may soon pass the crucial climate threshold of 1.5°C

Live Mint  

If the next eight years represent a crucial time for stopping climate change, then the stakes just got bigger. The Global Annual To Decadal Climate Update, prepared by scientists at the United Kingdom Met Office and released by the WMO, states that there is 50:50 chance that in at least one year between 2022-2026, the global average temperature will be …

‘Now Or Never’: New U.N. Report Sees Narrow Path For Averting Climate Catastrophe
2 years, 9 months ago

‘Now Or Never’: New U.N. Report Sees Narrow Path For Averting Climate Catastrophe

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING For the world to have any chance of preventing catastrophic climate change, it needs an immediate, collective and herculean effort to phase out fossil fuels and rein in greenhouse gas emissions. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.” To achieve the 1.5-degree target, global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 …

Rich countries can’t wash their hands off with net-zero targets
2 years, 10 months ago

Rich countries can’t wash their hands off with net-zero targets

Live Mint  

The sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comes in four parts, three of them by three different working groups, while the fourth integrates the findings of the three working group reports into a synthesis. If the developed countries carry out the expenditure on sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere the expensive way and on carrying …

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
2 years, 10 months ago

‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report

LA Times  

Felisa Benitez, 86, wipes sweat from her brow while taking a break from cleaning a standing electrical fan outside her Pacoima home in August. “If we want to have effective climate change policy, we have to look at those human dimensions, and particularly those equity dimensions, and protecting some of the most vulnerable populations,” said Michael Méndez, an assistant professor …

Scarce food, stricken cities: IPCC sounds another climate warning
2 years, 10 months ago

Scarce food, stricken cities: IPCC sounds another climate warning

The Hindu  

The story so far: On February 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a major report that reviewed the scientific evidence on natural, ecological, social and economic spheres, concluding that climate change has already produced irreversible losses and damage to land, coastal and marine ecosystems. This new report, which assesses the prospects for the planet if global average surface …

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse
2 years, 10 months ago

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse

Associated Press  

Although Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, the continent has suffered some of the world’s heaviest impacts of climate change, from famine to flooding. Yet from its coral reefs to its highest peaks, the reverberations of human-caused global warming will only get worse, according to a new United Nations report The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on …

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse
2 years, 10 months ago

UN: Africa, already suffering from warming, will see worse

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Although Africa has contributed relatively …

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report
2 years, 10 months ago

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report

Hindustan Times  

At least half the world’s population lives in regions vulnerable to the climate crisis, which has become complex, with several interacting factors likely to increase food prices, reduce household incomes, and lead to malnutrition and climate-related deaths, especially in tropical regions, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was released Monday. Mass mortality events …

Latest IPCC report warns of "unavoidable" climate hazards
2 years, 10 months ago

Latest IPCC report warns of "unavoidable" climate hazards

The Hindu  

The world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5°C and even temporarily exceeding this warming level would mean additional, severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was made public on Monday. Our actions today will shape how people adapt …

Window to save ourselves from climate change 'rapidly closing', IPCC warns
2 years, 10 months ago

Window to save ourselves from climate change 'rapidly closing', IPCC warns

ABC  

The world’s climate scientists and governments have declared climate change is now a threat to human wellbeing and warned we are about to miss the window to “secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”. Regardless of our actions now, the report says regional and urban areas will face irreversible changes that will impact millions of people's lives, including: Sea …

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings

Al Jazeera  

World has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to stem the worst effects of climate change, latest UN report warns. Climate change is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and way more dangerous by 2040 with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, and there remained only “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable …

Alter food system to avoid climate risks
3 years, 2 months ago

Alter food system to avoid climate risks

China Daily  

By Fan Shenggen and Meng Ting | China Daily | Updated: 2021-11-01 06:40 Editor's note: The ongoing UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, United Kingdom, could prompt countries to make concerted efforts to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Five experts share their views on the issue with China Daily: MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY The global food system faces major …

Climate change may already affect 85 percent of humanity
3 years, 2 months ago

Climate change may already affect 85 percent of humanity

Al Jazeera  

Researchers comb through some 100,000 studies documenting climate change’s effects around the planet. Climate change could already be affecting 85 percent of the world’s population, an analysis of tens of thousands of scientific studies found. Between 1951 and 1990, “We have about 1,500 studies in total,” Callaghan said, “Whereas in the five years or so since the last assessment report …

UN chief urges ‘rapid’ emission cuts to curb climate change
3 years, 3 months ago

UN chief urges ‘rapid’ emission cuts to curb climate change

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The head of the United Nations called Thursday for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming and avert climate disaster. “Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we will be unable to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius,” said Guterres. “The consequences will be catastrophic.” In …

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap, a World Bank report has found. The second part of the Groundswell report published Monday examined how the impacts of …

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050
3 years, 3 months ago

Climate change could displace 200 million people within their own countries by 2050

LA Times  

A boy, a member of the semi-nomadic Samburu people, uses a stick to try to chase away a swarm of desert locusts in Kenya. Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development …

Explained | Where will climate change strike?
3 years, 4 months ago

Explained | Where will climate change strike?

The Hindu  

The story so far: In one of the most categorical statements from a scientific body in the U.N. system, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released on August 9 that human activities were unequivocally the principal driver of changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere, in other words, of climate change. …

3 Things To Know About What Scientists Say About Our Future Climate
3 years, 4 months ago

3 Things To Know About What Scientists Say About Our Future Climate

NPR  

3 Things To Know About What Scientists Say About Our Future Climate More than 200 climate scientists just released a stark look at how fast the climate is warming, showing heat waves, extreme rain and intense droughts are on the rise. #1 Humans are causing rapid and widespread warming Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has now reached the highest level …

IPCC report: 10 key takeaways from world’s most comprehensive climate assessment
3 years, 5 months ago

IPCC report: 10 key takeaways from world’s most comprehensive climate assessment

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Humans’ role in climate crisis ‘unequivocal’ The summary of the report begins with a stark opening message: “It is …

IPCC Report 2021: Increasing Heatwaves, Shorter Cold Seasons; Know Key Findings On Impact Of Global Warming
3 years, 5 months ago

IPCC Report 2021: Increasing Heatwaves, Shorter Cold Seasons; Know Key Findings On Impact Of Global Warming

ABP News  

New Delhi: The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on climate change, released on Monday, has scientists warning that the extreme sea-level events which previously occurred only once in 100 years can happen every year by the end of this century. The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report 'Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis' also emphasises that every region in …

UN Climate Change Report: 'It’s going to get worse...nowhere to run, nowhere to hide'
3 years, 5 months ago

UN Climate Change Report: 'It’s going to get worse...nowhere to run, nowhere to hide'

India TV News  

UN Climate Change Report: Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations calls a “code red for humanity.” “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” said report co-author Linda …

Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation
3 years, 6 months ago

Leaked UN draft report warns of accelerating climate devastation

Al Jazeera  

Devastating climate effects from unliveable heat to more widespread disease are accelerating and will become obvious within 30 years, draft UN report says. That goal is enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, adopted by nearly 200 nations which pledged to collectively cap warming at “well below” two degrees Celsius – and 1.5 degrees if possible. But the UN draft report …

The good news about climate change: there’s still hope
3 years, 8 months ago

The good news about climate change: there’s still hope

Salon  

When ecologist Craig Allen looks across the brown, grassy shrublands on the east flank of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, he feels no satisfaction that he was right. "It's hard not to feel…well, it has felt like failure there," says Allen, who recently retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, and has monitored landscape change in these mountains since …

Climate Change Has Caused 21% Decline in Agricultural Productivity Since the 60s
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate Change Has Caused 21% Decline in Agricultural Productivity Since the 60s

News 18  

Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a new study shows that global farming productivity is 21 per cent lower than it could have been without climate change. “We find that climate change has basically wiped out about seven years of improvements in agricultural productivity over the past 60 years,” said researcher Ariel Ortiz-Bobea …

Climate change more than poverty, sanitation cause malnutrition in children says UN research
3 years, 11 months ago

Climate change more than poverty, sanitation cause malnutrition in children says UN research

Firstpost  

Rising carbon pollution has been shown to reduce the levels of these essential micronutrients in many crop staples, including wheat, rice and legumes. Climate change may contribute more to greater child malnutrition and poor diet than traditional causes such as poverty and poor sanitation, according to research published on Thursday. Writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the team warned …

Climate change: Eating plants, not meat, could remove 16 years' worth of CO2 emissions by 2050
4 years, 4 months ago

Climate change: Eating plants, not meat, could remove 16 years' worth of CO2 emissions by 2050

Daily Mail  

Switching from eating 'land-hungry' meat and dairy produce to foodstuffs like beans, lentils and nuts could remove 16 years' worth of CO2 emissions by 2050. Switching from eating 'land-hungry' meat and dairy produce to foodstuffs like beans, lentils and nuts, pictured, could remove 16 year's worth of CO2 emissions by 2050, expert said 'The greatest potential for forest regrowth, and …

Climate change is disrupting life for millions, a report finds
4 years, 9 months ago

Climate change is disrupting life for millions, a report finds

CNN  

CNN — After declining for most of the last decade, hunger is once again on the rise around the world, and climate change is a primary cause. Over 820 million people suffered from hunger in 2018, the greatest number since 2010 according to findings from a new World Meteorological Organization report released today. The wide-ranging State of the Climate report …

New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of global wheat crop by 2100
5 years, 3 months ago

New research warns severe climate-related droughts could threaten 60% of global wheat crop by 2100

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Underscoring the necessity of aggressive action to combat human-caused global warming, research published Wednesday warns that the majority of the world's wheat fields are at risk of enduring "severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts" by the end of the century — raising serious concerns about future food insecurity and political instability. "But if multiple …

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