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<p>Climate change has not stopped for COVID-19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase. Emissions are heading in the direction of pre-pandemic levels
World Meteorological Orgnisation ('WMO)
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Environmentalist super-group calls for fossil fuel divestment
A collection of 160 of the world's top environmentalists have taken a full page advert in the New York Times to call on philanthropists and charities to use their funds to tackle global warming ahead of
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UN climate envoy says summit key to reinvigorate global pact
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate-changing emissions surge globally, a summit of world leaders this month should help revitalizes ambitions to tackle climate change despite the absence
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Ozone layer that started depleting in 1980s healing
The protective ozone layer that started depleting heavily in the 1980's is on a recovery mode according to a new assessment by 300 scientists across the world released on Thursday. "Assessment for Decision-Makers"--
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Climate-damaging greenhouse gases reached new record high in 2013
With world leaders getting ready to give a political push to the efforts to deal with the climate change at a mega summit in New York on September 23, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday
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Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984
A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2012 and 2013 grew at their fastest
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United Nations predicts climate hell in 2050 with imagined weather forecasts
The United Nations is warning of floods, storms and searing heat from Arizona to Zambia within four decades, as part of a series of imagined weather forecasts released on Monday for a campaign publicising
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For most of us, global warming has become 'normal' climate
Global warming has been going on for so long that most people were not even born the last time the Earth was cooler than average in 1985 in a shift that is altering perceptions of a "normal" climate, scientists
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Weather And Climate-Related Disasters Have Cost The Planet $2.4 Trillion, WMO Report Finds
Weather- and climate-related disasters have caused $2.4 trillion in economic losses and nearly 2 million deaths globally since 1971 according to a new report. While the losses are staggering, the report
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Global warming requires more frequent rethink of 'normal' weather: U.N.
The baseline for "normal" weather used by everyone from farmers to governments to plan ahead needs to be updated more frequently to account for the big shifts caused by global warming, the U.N.'s World
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El Nino has 60% chance of starting by August, says UN
Geneva : The “El Nino” phenomenon, which sparks climate extremes around the globe, is likely to take hold in the Pacific Ocean by the end of the year and could even do so within weeks, the UN said on Thursday.