The climate strike is a source for hope – but new research shows it might be too late
5 years, 9 months ago

The climate strike is a source for hope – but new research shows it might be too late

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the last week, the UN Environment assembly announced its finding that, even if the Paris Agreement targets were met, global temperatures would rise by three to five degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. As a research team at the MIT has found, billions would regularly suffer deadly heatwaves by 2070, and half a billion would be struck by temperatures that would kill in the shade within six hours. Nato conducts grandstanding exercises in the region, the US and Canada invest in new fleets of ice-cutters, Denmark successfully trials its first commercial voyage in the transpolar sea route, and Russia re-opens military bases.

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How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets.
1 month ago

How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets.

NPR  

How many species could go extinct from climate change? toggle caption Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty/Universal Images Group Editorial To consider how climate change could cause some extinctions, imagine a tiny mountain bird that eats the berries of a particular mountain tree. Sponsor Message Scientists call this mountain phenomenon the "escalator to extinction" and it's just one way climate …

Act now or face extinction soon
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Act now or face extinction soon

Hindustan Times  

Much has been written about the year 2023 and all the temperature records it broke. The latest State of the Climate report by the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed that the year was the warmest on record, with the global average near-surface temperature at 1.45 °C above the pre-industrial baseline, and that it was the warmest 10-year period on record. Every …

Climate change study puts expiration date on all mammals
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change study puts expiration date on all mammals

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. “The newly emerged supercontinent would effectively create a triple whammy, comprising the continentality effect, hotter sun and more CO …

Earth could face a mass EXTINCTION by 2100
2 years ago

Earth could face a mass EXTINCTION by 2100

Daily Mail  

Earth faces a mass extinction by 2100 that could wipe out more than a quarter of world biodiversity, a new study warns. Earth will lose some 10 per cent of its animals and plants by 2050, rising to 27 per cent by 2100 The world has experienced five mass extinctions over the course of its history, and experts claim a …

Mass extinction of up to 90 PERCENT of all marine species could happen by 2100
2 years, 4 months ago

Mass extinction of up to 90 PERCENT of all marine species could happen by 2100

Daily Mail  

Nearly 90 percent of all marine species are at high or critical risk of going extinct by the end of the century if humans do not curb greenhouse emissions, a new study warns. A team of researchers led by Dalhousie University in Canada, evaluated climate risks of nearly 25,000 species that live in the upper 328 feet of the ocean …

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’

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. “There are plenty of reasons to believe climate change could become catastrophic, even at modest levels of warming,” said …

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean
55 years ago

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Mass Extinction in the Ocean

Wired  

A quarter of a billion years ago, things were not going well on planet Earth. Back then the planet was in the middle of the worst mass extinction event ever—much worse than the one that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. “These environmental changes are also happening in the modern ocean today,” says Penn, a research associate …

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
2 years, 9 months ago

No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk

Associated Press  

It’s not the end of the world. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.” “It’s really, really, really hard to walk people back from that ledge,” Gill said. “Everybody knows it’s going to get worse,” said Woodwell Climate Research Center scientist Jennifer Francis. So I’m seeing people do things.” Pennsylvania State University climate scientist …

Mass Extinction Took Place 30 Million Years Ago Due to Drastic Climate Change: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

Mass Extinction Took Place 30 Million Years Ago Due to Drastic Climate Change: Study

News 18  

New research by the scientists at Duke University published this week revealed a mass extinction that happened 30 million years ago. According to the research, 63% of mammal species had vanished from Africa and Arabian Peninsula following a drastic climate change. The report states, “Earth grew cooler, ice sheets expanded, sea levels dropped, forests started changing to grasslands, and carbon …

Human-driven biodiversity loss faster than mass extinction when dinosaurs were wiped out, study finds
3 years, 7 months ago

Human-driven biodiversity loss faster than mass extinction when dinosaurs were wiped out, study finds

The Independent  

The damage humans are doing to the world is now so great that in some ecosystems the biodiversity loss exceeds the rate of extinction at the time the dinosaurs died out, and the destruction could require millions of years to undo, scientists have said. “We rely on functioning freshwater environments to sustain human health, nutrition and fresh water supply.” The …

Climate Change Tracker: Loss of Arctic sea ice will trigger greater warming
4 years, 2 months ago

Climate Change Tracker: Loss of Arctic sea ice will trigger greater warming

Live Mint  

It is now quite clear that 2020 is going to be either the warmest or the second warmest year since records began, according to climate data analysed by the UK-based climate science and policy website Carbon Brief. To add to this, a study released on 27 October states that the accelerating depletion of Arctic summer sea ice is about to …

Climate change on track to wipe out polar bears by 2100
4 years, 5 months ago

Climate change on track to wipe out polar bears by 2100

The Hindu  

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published on July 20 that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime. But even if humanity were able to cap global warming at 2.4C — about half-a-degree above Paris Agreement targets, but hugely ambitious all the same — it would probably …

Polar bears could be extinct by the end of the century, study says
4 years, 5 months ago

Polar bears could be extinct by the end of the century, study says

LA Times  

The heating of the planet is pushing Earth’s polar bear population to its limit, and according to a new study they could have fewer than 100 years left before extinction. Studies have long shown that declining sea ice will lead to a decline in polar bears, but new research published Monday in Nature Climate Change models a specific doomsday timeline. …

Climate change could wipe out up to HALF of all plant and animal life by 2070
4 years, 10 months ago

Climate change could wipe out up to HALF of all plant and animal life by 2070

Daily Mail  

Climate change could wipe out up to half of all plant and animal life on Earth by 2070 if temperatures keep increasing, study warns. Scroll down for video The common giant tree frog from Madagascar is one of many species impacted by recent climate change Commenting on the findings, study author Dr John Wiens, at Arizona University, said: the results …

WHAT IS EARTH'S SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION?
4 years, 10 months ago

WHAT IS EARTH'S SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION?

Daily Mail  

The world has experienced five mass extinctions over the course of its history, and experts claim we are seeing another one happen right now. A 2017 research paper claimed a 'biological annihilation' of wildlife in recent decades has triggered the sixth mass extinction and says the planet is heading towards a 'global crisis'. There are an estimated 8.7 million plant …

One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft U.N. report
5 years, 8 months ago

One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft U.N. report

The Hindu  

Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft U.N. report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends. ‘Mass extinction event’ The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report warns of “an imminent rapid acceleration in the global rate of …

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