State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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El Nio in a changing climate
A distinctly different type of El Ni
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Stable isotope constraints on Holocene carbon cycle changes from an Antarctic ice core
Antarctic ice cores can be used to reconstruct atmospheric CO2 concentrations, revealing significant changes during the Holocene epoch which started 11,000 years ago. Here, a highly resolved delta13C record is presented for the past 11,000 years from measurements on atmospheric CO2 trapped in an Antarctic ice core.
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Ban lauds Indias approach
Lauding India
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The Spence Solution
The road to global cooperation on climate change mitigation at the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit is currently gridlocked by an apparent direct clash of interests between the mitigation priorities of the developed countries and the growth priorities of the developing world.
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U.S. Panel Shifts Focus to Reusing Nuclear Fuel
With a federal plan to handle nuclear waste in deadlocked disarray, an advisory panel that has spent 20 years studying a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain turned Wednesday to discussing ways of reusing the fuel instead.
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City cleaner, BMC richer after Gorai dump closure
In a landmark for carbon financing in India, the BMC on Tuesday earned Rs 26 crore for the scientific closure of its Gorai dumping ground. The cheque from the Asian Development Bank is an advance for future delivery of carbon credits.
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Natural disasters displacing millions: UN study
Floods, storms, drought and other climate-related natural disasters drove 20 million people from their homes last year, nearly four times as many as were displaced by conflicts, a new UN report said on Tuesday. The study tried to quantify for the first time the number of people forced to flee their homes because of climate change.
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Dust Storm Blankets Sydney As Drought Bites
A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of valuable farmland topsoil. The dust blacked out the outback town of Broken Hill on Tuesday, forcing a zinc mine to shut down, and swept 1,167 km (725 miles) east to shroud Sydney in a red glow on Wednesday.
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Q+A: Is Australia's Dust Storm Linked To Climate Change?
A dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness and stripping thousands of tonnes of topsoil off Australia's main farmlands. Following are answers to questions about the storm. WHAT CAUSED THE DUST STORM?
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World Food Output Must Rise 70 Percent By 2050: FAQ
The world will have to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people and as incomes rise, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. Global cereals demand for food and animal feed is expected to rise to 3 billion tonnes by 2050 and more demand may come from the biofuels industry, the FAO said in a statement.