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The new figure is in line with World Health Organisation estimates of 4.2 million deaths each year linked to ground-level air pollution, mostly from heart disease, stroke, lung…
The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible
Without action by 2030, climate change could push more than 100-million people in developing countries below the poverty line
A world of narrowing options threatens to pit biofuels, forests and food production against each other
Scientists found one or more common antibiotics in two-thirds of 711 samples taken from rivers in 72 countries
Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers
Since October, the world has seen a crescendo of grassroots protests around climate change, especially in western Europe and North America
The Extinction Rebellion is rooted in the conviction that humanity has dug its own grave and has one foot dangling over the edge
The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at ‘well under’ two degrees Celsius
New calculations by the UN’s top science panel sharply reduce the real-world potential for drawing CO2 out of the air
Earth’s surface has warmed 1°C and is on track toward an unliveable 3°C or 4°C rise
Of hundreds of climate models in 2015 projecting a low-carbon future, only two or three aimed for a 1.5℃ global warming cap
2016 marked the first time in over two decades that malaria cases did not fall year-on-year
Freshwater resources were already stressed before heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuels began to warm Earth’s surface and affect rainfall.
The Paris treaty calls for capping global warming at "well under" two degrees celsius, and 1.5 °C if possible.
2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation said Monday.
Herewith a backgrounder on the search for life beyond the horizon of our Solar System.
After two and a half days of round-the-clock discussions at the end of COP17, global leaders have finally agreed on a course to fight climate change.
A draft global pact on climate change has boosted UN talks, already deep into overtime, but negotiators are worried it’s a little too late.
