State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
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New climate-change studies deepen concerns about a northern chill
Two new studies are adding to concerns about one of the most troubling scenarios for future climate change: the possibility that global warming could slow or shut down the Atlantic's great ocean circulation
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Ice sheets may be more resilient than previously thought
Sea level rise poses one of the biggest threats to human systems in a globally warming world, potentially causing trillions of dollars' worth of damages to flooded cities around the world. As surface temperatures
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Sea Levels Might Not Rise as Fast as Previously Estimated, Researchers Say
It turns out that sea levels might not rise as high as previously estimated. Stanford researchers discovered this after taking another look at climate conditions long ago, in the middle Pliocene era, and
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Rising sea levels may threaten Nasa launch sites
Rising sea levels caused by melting ice caps could threaten Nasa launch sites along US coastlines, the US space agency has warned. In the coming years, launch facilities at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre
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Obama tours glacier to highlight march of climate change
US President Barack Obama viewed Alaska’s Exit Glacier, in a bid to drive home the impact climate change is already having on America. Obama visited the Kenai Fjords National Park in southern Alaska
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With glaciers as backdrop, Obama to use Alaska trip to push climate agenda
President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska on Monday for a three-day tour aimed at spotlighting how its melting permafrost and eroding coastlines show the United States is already being hurt by climate change.
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Obama heads for Arctic Circle on climate campaign
Shrinking glaciers, Arctic temperatures and a mix of messy energy politics await President Barack Obama on his trip to Alaska, where he will become the first sitting president to step foot in the Arctic
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This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea
In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with
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This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea
In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with
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Sea level will rise by 3 feet, and it's unavoidable: Nasa
MIAMI: Sea levels are rising around the world, and the latest satellite data suggests that three feet (one metre) or more is unavoidable in the next 100-200 years, Nasa scientists said on Wednesday.