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Elyse Myrans
Today marks the third day of COP21, a key milestone in the global effort to combat climate change.
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Elyse Myrans
Today marks the third day of COP21, a key milestone in the global effort to combat climate change.
Daniel DeNoon
The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.
That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.
“Perfect storm” Professor Sir John Beddington FRS UK Chief Scientific Adviser 2008 -2013
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MIT News
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Oceans have absorbed up to 30 percent of human-made carbon dioxide around the world, storing dissolved carbon for hundreds of years. As the uptake of carbon dioxide has increased in the last century, so has the acidity of oceans worldwide.
the Guardian
Damian Carrington,John Vidal,Fiona Harvey,Suzanne Goldenberg
Washington Post
Chris Mooney
Scientists have documented a recent, massive melt event on the surface of highly vulnerable West Antarctica that, they fear, could be a harbinger of future events as the planet continues to warm.
the Guardian
Tom Levitt
It was almost 20 years ago that Ma Jun sat and watched the rainbow-coloured River Fen, in Shanxi province. As he turned to the skies in this coal and industrial heartland of north China he could see dozens of chimneys bellowing out their fumes.
the Guardian
Guardian staff
A new study has found that higher water temperatures have ravaged the Great Barrier Reef, causing the worst coral bleaching recorded by scientists.
Chelsea Harvey
The human handprint on the natural world has become evident in all too many ways in recent decades.
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Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.