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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Climate Change Pakistan among most vulnerable countries: UNDP
Pakistan is assessed to be one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change with particulate threats to water, energy and food security, according to United Nations Development Porgamme
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Fabius hopes Paris climate talks can reverse Copenhagen failure
A breakthrough international accord to curb global warming is within reach but major hurdles still loom including resistance to a legally binding accord, France's foreign minister said in an interview
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Stable Antarctic glaciers are now melting
A dramatic shift has taken place in the glaciers of the southern Antarctic peninsula, writes Bert Wouters. Six years ago these previously stable bodies suddenly stated shedding 60 cubic kilometres of ice
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Africa: New Report Outlines Strategies to Increase Funding for Black Carbon Reduction
Rapid implementation of measures to reduce black carbon in a range of sectors would deliver multiple benefits and near term results in health, climate and other areas Reducing black carbon emissions
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Major Antarctic Ice Shelf May Disappear by 2020
With climate change heating things up, and the Earth's poles rapidly melting, it should come as no surprise that a major Antarctic ice shelf may completely disappear by 2020, according to a new NASA study.
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Giant Antarctic ice shelf doomed; sea levels rising at accelerating rate
The last intact section of one of Antarctica’s mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according to a new NASA
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NASA finds Antarctic ice shelf a few years from disintegration
The last intact section of one of Antarctica's mammoth ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years, contributing further to rising sea levels, according
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Breakup fears for massive Antarctic ice shelf: study
PARIS: The largest ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula is being thinned by warmer seas and air and could catastrophically break up, scientists said on Wednesday. The loss of the Larsen C ice shelf
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Recording Antarctic sea-ice a logistic problem for scientists
SYDNEY: Growing sea ice surrounding Antarctica could prompt scientists to consider relocating research stations on the continent, according to the operations manager of the Australian Antarctic Division.
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Thinning Antarctic ice shelf could contribute to sea level rise, says study
The largest ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula is thinning because of warmer ocean and air temperatures that are driving it towards a collapse that could contribute significantly to sea level rise, a