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what does it take to phase out fossil fuels?

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Science splits ranks over fossil fuel phase-out

...floods, droughts and superstorms become more frequent, and some Americans have to abandon their homes as climate refugees. So the question raised by what might seem an academic dogfight remains open: ...

29 Jun 2017

Science splits ranks over fossil fuel phase-out

News / Food & Agriculture

World's ability to feed itself in jeopardy, UN warns

...floods and droughts and resulting in ever-erratic rainfall. * Due to population growth, the world will need to produce 50 per cent more food, feed and biofuel by 2050 to meet demand. * An estimated 1....

24 Feb 2017

World's ability to feed itself in jeopardy, UN warns

News / Carbon & Climate

Cities "woefully unprepared" for rising disaster risk - World Bank

...flooding from overflowing rivers is expected to grow 166 per cent over the next 30 years, while coastal flooding risk could rise 445 per cent, the report said. Nepal's capital Kathmandu is expected to...

17 May 2016

Cities "woefully unprepared" for rising disaster risk - World Bank

News / Food & Agriculture

FACTBOX - Where might La Niña take a bite out of world food supplies?

With weather forecasters predicting a La Niña weather phenomenon coming on the tail of the strongest El Niño in 20 years, some countries are bracing for potential droughts and floods. Meteorologists i...

8 Jul 2016

FACTBOX - Where might La Niña take a bite out of world food supplies?

News / Policy & Finance

Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars

...flooding, forest destruction, community conflict and river and water source pollution,” he said. The central government’s response Indonesia’s central government responded to problems in coal-mine per...

16 May 2017

Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars

News / Food & Agriculture

How the food we eat makes climate change worse

...floods. * Small farmers, cattle herders and fishermen are the most vulnerable to climate change, and will need better access to technologies, markets, information and credit to adapt to climate change...

18 Oct 2016

How the food we eat makes climate change worse

Press Releases / GlacialTech Inc

GlacialTech announces new LED flood light knock down kit for 80 to 100

...flood lights suitable to replace 300W to 400W Metal Halide lighting. IP66 Rugged Design With an IP66 rugged design, LED flood lights built with the Igloo SS80 SKD kit are dustproof and waterproof ag...

27 May 2016

GlacialTech announces new LED flood light knock down kit for 80 to 100

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change causes compensation conundrum

Caribbean islands and US states are still counting the cost of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. At least 138 people have been killed by the high winds and floodwaters. And while it is still early da...

26 Sep 2017

Climate change causes compensation conundrum

people carrying umbrellas after a storm in India

News / Policy & Finance

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

...flood or drought from becoming a disaster saves up to $5 in humanitarian aid, experts at the meeting said. Insurance allows governments to plan and prepare for disasters because they know they will be...

31 Jul 2017

Insurance for poor could protect the most disaster-vulnerable - governments

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Meet El Niño’s cranky uncle that could send global warming into hyperdrive

...floods and drought in the United States, China, Australia and New Zealand. In the negative phase of the IPO (La Tía) the surface temperatures of the Pacific Ocean are cooler than usual near the equato...

6 Feb 2017

Meet El Niño’s cranky uncle that could send global warming into hyperdrive

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change

...flooding in some places, severe drought in others? Perhaps you also think about solutions to climate change and to the very real crisis it is creating. Because solutions, sometimes large and sometime...

21 Jun 2017

Forest and farm producers: first responders to climate change

News / Food & Agriculture

Planet is paying for palm oil profits

...flooding, drought, landslides, and wildfires are all higher in oil palm plantations and surrounding areas than in forests and their surroundings. Study authors, University of Göttingen, Helmholtz Cent...

5 Sep 2016

Planet is paying for palm oil profits

beriwala sri lanka worker in a small garment factory

News / Carbon & Climate

Globalised economy more susceptible to weather extremes, scientists warn

...Flood link to climate change Work is underway, meanwhile, to strengthen evidence on the links between extreme weather events and climate change. This week, scientists collaborating on the World Weathe...

13 Jun 2016

Globalised economy more susceptible to weather extremes, scientists warn

News / Cities

Scientists set out costs of sea level rise

...flood impacts is not only determined by environmental factors, but also to a significant extent by human decisions. Flood defence measures can counteract the increasing flood risk. “Our study illustra...

16 Mar 2016

Scientists set out costs of sea level rise

News / Water

Number of rural Indians without clean water equivalent to UK population - charity

...floods and droughts. The rise in climate-linked extreme weather events is likely not only worsen their plight, but also leave millions more water insecure, it said. Diseases such as cholera, blinding ...

22 Mar 2017

Number of rural Indians without clean water equivalent to UK population - charity

Internally displaced persons seen here inside a UN Refugee Agency tent in Timor Leste

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Do you know a climate refugee? You will.

...floods, and loss of biodiverse flora and fauna. ‘The correlation between climate change, human pandemics, and economic and other risks, cannot be isolated,’ states Disparte, ‘they’re all connected.’ A...

6 Oct 2017

Do you know a climate refugee? You will.

News / Water

Climate change key suspect in the case of India’s vanishing groundwater

...flood irrigation. Tube-wells proved to be the best way to irrigate more land, since they reached untapped groundwater. But today, annual groundwater pumping removes at least 24 times what was consumed...

20 Mar 2017

Climate change key suspect in the case of India’s vanishing groundwater

News / Food & Agriculture

Climate change brings severe risks to northern Pakistan

...floods, avalanches, Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs), and landslides. Before the recent April flash floods and landslides, nine people were killed in the Chitral district when a powerful avalanche...

28 Apr 2016

Climate change brings severe risks to northern Pakistan

News / Cities

Imagining the ‘post-fossil fuel’ city

...flooded streets. A smattering of windmills and solar panels have failed to reverse the damage. The finalists, announced last month in Utrecht, each received €1,000 (USD 1,070) to pursue their projects...

5 Apr 2017

Imagining the ‘post-fossil fuel’ city

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

...flooding,” says one of the report’s authors, Paul O’Gorman, associate professor in the department of Earth, atmosphere and planetary sciences at MIT. “We found there are regional variations in the pro...

25 May 2017

Climate models forecast extreme rainfall

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